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Hee Jeong Lim

LPGA Tour history. feel if your game is in good form and you keep at it, you
“I wasn't that nervous going into the playoff. I think I was can reach that ranking,” said Ko. “I felt if I kept at it and
feeding off the confidence I had during the round,” said worked hard this year I might have a chance within this
Ko. “When I was heading to the tee ground, I turned to year. So I did return to that spot earlier than I expected.
Dave and I told him that this was my first playoff ever, I'm going to do my best so that I can maintain that
and he smiled, and he said, ‘Welcome.’ And that helped position.”
me ease those nerves.” Lim’s runner-up finish is her third of the 2021 season on
Not only does Ko clinch the Leaders Top 10 competition the KLPGA. Finishing five strokes behind Ko and Lim at
with her fourth win of the season, but she also is projected -17 sat a duo of major champions in Lydia Ko and A Lim
to return to the No. 1 spot in the Rolex Women’s World Kim along with KLPGA stalwarts Da Yeon Lee an Na Rin
Golf Rankings, surpassing American Nelly Korda. Ko was An. Ko and Kim, along with the event winner, tied the 18-
No. 1 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings from hole scoring record with 64s all around on the final day.
July 20, 2019, to June 27, 2021, a streak of 100 consecutive In Gee Chun and Hae Ran Ryu tied for seventh at -16,
weeks; she was also World No. 1 for 12 weeks in early while Alison Lee finished in solo ninth thanks to a
2019. 4-under 68 to end the week at -15. Ji Hyun Oh and Danielle
“I wasn't too conscious, actually, of the ranking. I always Kang rounded out the crowd tied for 10th and above at

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