Becoming a member of the likes of Minjee Lee, Hannah Inexperienced, Jiyai Shin, Steph Kyriacou and defending champion Ashleigh Buhai within the area, the ladies’s contingent now boasts six gamers contained in the top-100 of the world rankings.
An everyday customer to Australian shores, Ryu received the 2011 U.S Girls’s Open and 2017 Chevron Championship.
She’ll be aiming to change into the fifth Korean to win the Australian Open title, becoming a member of Jiyai Shin, Inbee Park, Ko Jin-young and Jang Ha-na.
Performed at The Lakes and The Australian golf golf equipment beginning November 30, the 2023 ISPS HANDA Australian Open marks a return to the latter for the ladies’s occasion for the primary time since 1975, when LPGA legend JoAnne Carner claimed the title, and a debut for The Lakes.
The return to Sydney additionally marks the Australian Open debut for Li, who has been making headlines since earlier than she reached her teenage years.
In 2014, Li turned the youngest ever qualifier for the U.S Girls’s Open at simply 11 years of age, with the American proudly owning related age-based data on the U.S Girls’s Beginner and U.S Girls’s Beginner Public Hyperlinks Championships.
Twice a winner on the Epson Tour in 2022, Li graduated to the LPGA Tour for this season the place she has twice recorded top-20 finishes.
Winner of the 2016 Volunteers of America Texas Shootout on the LPGA Tour, Shin has proven probably the most 2023 type of the trio, amassing 13 top-25 LPGA finishes, together with a tie for eighth on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship.
With the addition of Ryu, Shin and Li to the record of introduced gamers, the Girls’s Australian Open area now boasts seven main championship titles, 34 LPGA Tour wins and representatives of 15 totally different nations.
“So Yeon, Jenny and Lucy are all large gamers, and their addition to the ISPS HANDA Australian Open area not solely provides extra energy and depth however will increase the worldwide illustration within the occasion,” WPGA Tour of Australasia CEO Karen Lunn stated.
“The Lakes and The Australian Golf Golf equipment will present an awesome canvas for this 12 months’s area to create an entertaining spectacle with a worthy winner to be topped on Sunday December 3.”
There can even be 10 starters from the top-100 within the males’s Australian Open area highlighted by Cam Smith, Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee, Cam Davis, Ryder Cup rookie Robert MacIntyre and defending champion Adrian Meronk.
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