{"id":394688,"date":"2022-11-21T02:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394688"},"modified":"2022-11-21T02:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:32:22","slug":"lydia-ko-wins-season-ending-cme-tour-championship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lydia-ko-wins-season-ending-cme-tour-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Ko wins season-ending CME Tour Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Lydia Ko claimed the richest prize in women&#8217;s golf as she shot a final-round 70 to win the CME Tour Championship in Florida by two shots on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ROLEX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ROLEX<\/a> Player of the Year! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>LYDIA KO! \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cPfqMst2BJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cPfqMst2BJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LPGA (@LPGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPGA\/status\/1594452777136099330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt calmer than I thought I would be,&#8221; said Ko at the presentation ceremony. &#8220;There was a lot of things on the line today. I really wanted to play the best golf I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old South Korea-born Ko birdied two of her final three holes to finish on 17 under par at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples and hold off the challenge of Ireland&#8217;s Leona Maguire.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire, who held a share of the lead overnight, had to settle for second place after a level-par round of 72, with Sweden&#8217;s Anna Nordqvist a stroke further back after carding a 67.<\/p>\n<p>Ko&#8217;s victory saw her claim her second LPGA player of the year title as well the winner&#8217;s cheque of 2million US dollars (\u00a31.6million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Lydia Ko claimed the richest prize in women&#8217;s golf as she shot a final-round 70 to win the CME Tour Championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394689,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16875,16874],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Ko's victory saw her claim her second LPGA player of the year title","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394688"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394688"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}