Jin Young Ko returns to the LPGA for this week’s HSBC Women’s World Championship, her first start since that rip-roaring finale last November in Naples, Florida. Given how much time has passed since the CME Group Tour Championship, it might be easy to forget some of Ko’s incredible feats. Like the fact that she won five of her last nine starts in 2021.
Ko, 26, typically comes out of the gates fast at the start of the year. In 2018, she made history by becoming the first player to win her first LPGA start as a member at the Australian Women’s Open. She’d finish second there the following year. In 2021, Ko finished fourth in her season debut at the Gainbridge LPGA.
This week in Singapore at the Sentosa Golf Club, Ko will play the first two rounds alongside Yuka Saso and Lydia Ko, who won her most recent start on the LPGA in late January at the Gainbridge.
