2023-06-26 06:32:00
Ko Jin-young, the longest record in the women’s golf world is certain… 159 weeks total
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It is certain that Korean women’s golf star Jinyoung Koh will set the world No. 1 record for the longest period of time.
Ko Jin-young finished the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, which ended on the 26th (Korean time), with a tie for 20th, and is highly likely to rise to the world No. 1 for five consecutive weeks.
The weekly ranking announcement is on the 27th, but competitors Nellie Corda (World No. 2, USA) and Lydia Ko (No. 3, New Zealand) each failed to make the cut and tied for 57th in this competition, so Jinyoung Ko is unlikely to be reversed. do.
In this case, from the second week of April 2019, when Ko Jin-young first rose to number one in the world, to this week, Ko Jin-young kept the world’s top spot for 159 weeks out of a total of 221 weeks.
The previous record was 158 weeks by retired Lorena Ochoa (Mexico).
However, while Ochoa ranked first in the world for 158 weeks in a row, Ko Jin-young gave up 62 out of 221 weeks to Koda, Park Seong-hyun, Lydia Ko, and Ataya Titikkun.
Ko Jin-young’s longest streak at No. 1 is 100 weeks from July 2019 to June 2021.
The period when the world rankings were frozen in the followingmath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) (8 weeks, March to May 2020) was also recognized as the period of No. 1 for Ko Jin-young.
After Ko Jin-young and Ochoa, Lydia Ko (125 shares), Zeng Yani (Taiwan, 109 shares), and Park In-bi (106 shares) kept the first place for a long time.
In terms of consecutive records, Oh Cho-ah, Zeng Yani (109 weeks), and Ko Jin-young (100 weeks) are in the order.
Ko Jin-young won the HSBC World Championship in March and the Founders Cup in May this year, winning her second season and 15 career wins, and returned to world No. 1 on the 23rd of last month following regarding 7 months.
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