Ariya is World Player of the Year

Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn, winner of five LPGA titles this year, took LPGA Player of the Year honors and a $1 million bonus prize Sunday

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Ariya is world Player of the Year

Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand poses for a portrait with a box of one million dollars in cash during the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images/AFP

Miami, Nov 20, 2016, AFP – Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn took LPGA Player of the Year honours and a $1 million bonus prize Sunday while Britain's Charley Hull captured the season-ending Tour Championship with a 72-hole course record.

The final day of the 2016 campaign also saw South Korean Chun In-Gee birdie the last three holes to edge New Zealand's top-ranked Lydia Ko for the Vare Trophy for the season's low scoring average in a battle that went down to the last stroke.

Ariya, whose first five LPGA titles this year included her first major at the Women's British Open, only shared fourth but with teenager Ko only sharing 10th, the result was good enough to claim Player of the Year and Race to the Globe season points bonus.

"I had my goal to win my first tournament and I did. To win the Player of the Year, it's huge," said the Thai.

Three days before her 21st birthday, Ariya took the Race to the Globe with 6,800 points to 5,050 for Ko despite the Kiwi's second-round 62.

"I thought she was going to win everything, that's what I thought," Ariya said of Ko, who hugged all the rivals who left her empty-handed.
That included Chun, whose fight for the Vare Trophy that began in January went down to their last shots.

Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand plays her shot on the 14th hole during the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images/AFP

Hull, a 20-year-old from England, won her first US title and first crown since 2014 by firing a final-round 66, six-under par, to finish on 19-under 269 – shattering the old Tiburon Golf Club mark of 271 set by American Cristie Kerr last year.

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