{"id":428407,"date":"2023-03-05T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428407"},"modified":"2023-03-05T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:49:41","slug":"ko-jin-young-secures-title-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ko-jin-young-secures-title-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko Jin-young secures title in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ko Jin-young became the first player to retain the HSBC Women&#8217;s World championship after a stellar performance, which saw her take a two-shot victory with a three-under par 69 to win under 17.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your final <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HWWCGolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HWWCGolf<\/a> leaderboard \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Title successfully defended by Jin Young Ko!<\/p>\n<p>FULL LEADERBOARD \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95q7xUwsnt\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/95q7xUwsnt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LPGA (@LPGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPGA\/status\/1632345270670245888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The South Korean, who struggled throughout the 2022 season due to a wrist injury was more than delighted to get back to the winning ways.<\/p>\n<p>After clinching the title and the 270, 000$ first price, the current number 5 burst into tears as it was her first trophy since March last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great honour to defend this title and I had a great week, and a long week as well, with all the rain,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Before this week I worked really hard. I knew I was defending so I wanted to get one more trophy. It paid off and I&#8217;m really happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nelly Korda, currently number 2, finished the event second, after also shooting 69.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Kang (68) and Allisen Corpuz (69) were joint third on 14 under with Japan&#8217;s Ayaka Furue (67).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ko Jin-young became the first player to retain the HSBC Women&#8217;s World championship after a stellar performance, which saw her take a two-shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The South Korean star salvaged a long-awaited win in Singapore","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\/428407"}],"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=428407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428407"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428407"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}