The The last time a golfer achieved the trio of victories was in 2013when the also South Korean Inbee Park added the Nabisco championship and the LPGA championship and the United States Open consecutively. Park did it consecutively, something that only the American Babe Zaharias had achieved in 1950, and Ryu could join the feat, after having won the last two majors, the KPMG PGA Championship at the end of June and the Evian two weeks ago, where he had the lowest round in a ‘major’ with 60 strokes (-11).
In addition to Zaharias and Park, only two other players in history have won three majors in the same campaign, also North Americans Mickey Wright (1961) and Pat Bradley (1986).
The distribution of the big ones between Kordawho has four majors to his credit, and Ryu, who has the two wins this year, makes the women’s version of the British Open.
The 27-year-old American, daughter of former Czech tennis player Petr Korda, has won two more LPGA Tour titles this year and snatched the world number one from the 23-year-old Thai Jeeno Thitikul, who is seeking to win her first major title, although her performance has been irregular in recent months.
The new edition of the AIG Women Cup is contested on the Royal Lytham & St Annes fieldin the northwest of England, with 144 players in the running, including the defending champion, the Japanese Miyu Yamashita, world number six.
There will be six Spaniards in the runningwith the challenge of winning a female ‘major’ for Spain for the first time: Carlota Ciganda, Carolina Chacarra, Julia López, the ‘amateur’ Paula Martín, Carla Tejedo and Ana Peláezyou are last two classified last Monday in the repechage tournament.
Created in 1976 and owned by Royal & Ancient, the organizer of the British Open, the AIG Women’s Cup is the last major season of the five on the calendar, one more than in the men’s category.