Ruoning Yin of China performs her shot from the fifth tee through the first spherical of the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship offered by P&G at Kenwood Nation Membership on September 07, 2023 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dylan Buell/Getty Pictures/AFP (Photograph by Dylan Buell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Pictures through AFP)
China’s Yin Ruoning turned the world primary in ladies’s golf on Sunday by ending third on the LPGA Queen Metropolis Championship.
The 20-year-old turned solely the second Chinese language girl to assert the world primary rating after Feng Shanshan, who reached the summit from November 2017 to April 2018.
“It means so much. For me it’s like dream come true,” Yin mentioned.
“I’ve received goosebumps. World primary is the large step on the way in which to chasing Shanshan.”
Yin will play on a Chinese language workforce coached by Feng within the Asian Video games, which open on September 23 on dwelling soil at Hangzhou.
“I didn’t get a number of probability to speak with Shanshan,” Yin mentioned. “However I’m trying ahead to going again to China and play the Asian Video games and spend extra time together with her, contemplating she’s the pinnacle coach on our nationwide workforce.”
Yin, who wanted a top-four outcome to overhaul American Lilia Vu for the highest spot, missed out by two strokes on a playoff for the Queen Metropolis title between Australia’s Minjee Lee, who gained the title with a birdie on the second further gap, and England’s Charley Hull.
However Yin fired a final-round five-under par 67 to complete third on 14-under 274 at Kenwood Nation Membership in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grow to be the fifth completely different participant atop the rankings this yr.
“It’s simply superb,” Yin mentioned.
“My thoughts is clean proper now.”
Ruoning Yin of China strains up a putt through the first spherical of the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship offered by P&G at Kenwood Nation Membership on September 07, 2023 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Justin Casterline/Getty Pictures/AFP (Photograph by Justin Casterline / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Pictures through AFP)
Second-ranked Yin gained her first main title in June on the Ladies’s PGA Championship, two months after amassing her first LPGA victory on the LA Open.
Others atop the rankings this yr included New Zealand’s Lydia Ko, People Vu and Nelly Korda and South Korea’s Ko Jin-young.
Vu’s three triumphs this yr included main wins on the Chevron Championship in April and the Ladies’s British Open in August.
Yin by no means managed to share the lead, settling for her fourth third-place end in 5 occasions, however did what she wanted to leap to the highest of the rankings.
“I’m fairly comfy,” Yin mentioned. “Simply each week I do know I’m in great spot and each week I can put myself into that profitable circle. It’s simply superb to see I can play good, but additionally constant.”
Yin sandwiched birdies on the par-5 second and fourth holes round one other on the par-3 third to cost into third early.
She started the again 9 with a birdie and added one other on the par-5 fifteenth to solidify her maintain on the spot, then parred her strategy to the clubhouse.
“Earlier than this week, I do know (relying on) what place I end, I may be the world primary,” Yin mentioned. “I simply hold that in my thoughts.
“Final gap I checked the leaderboard. I used to be like, ‘OK, one other week ending third, however I’m assuming I’ll be the world primary.’”
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