LPGA Tour CME Group Tour Championship final leaderboard http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/cme-group-tour-championship/results
The long and winding road that is the LPGA Tour is finally over, and the prizes have been awarded.
A recent excellent documentary by the Golf Channel explored the domination of this tour by South Korean girls, and the reasons behind their stunning rise to excellence led by their hero Si Ri Pak, however despite all their success it was a young women from Thailand, Ariya Jutanugarn who won the biggest prizes.
Those are the LPGA Tour’s player of the year award, the money title and the season-long Race to CME Globe points competition that comes with a $1 million bonus.
She won five tournaments including three consecutive starts in May and with all that she finally managed to beat Lydia Ko for all three of those trophies.
Charley Hull from England won the actual tournament shooting 66 66 on the weekend to finish at -19, two shots ahead of So Yeon Ryu (67)
The final trophy came down to the last putt as In Gee Chun made a 10-footer for birdie on the final hole to win the scoring title to edge Lydia Ko.
She is the first player since Nancy Lopez in 1978 to win both the Vare Trophy and rookie of the year in the same season.
Brooke Henderson finished 72 72 69 69 T24 and her wildly successful year included two wins including a major, an incredible 15 top-10 finishes, along with $1,724,409 in prize money, 3rd on the LPGA official money list and she represented Canada at both the Pan Am Games and the Olympics.
Alena Sharp wrapped up her best year on tour 69 76 72 68 T36.
Bryan Angus
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