Inbee Park Takes the Ricoh Cup

Add Inbee Park to my list of multiple winners in 2010!  She held off JLPGA money-list title holder Sun-Ju Ahn down the stretch in the season-ending Ricoh Cup and ended up being the only player under par in the elite field.  Mika Miyazato came 4 shorts shy of getting her 2nd win of the season and 2nd JLPGA major, tying Ahn for 2nd place.  Sakura Yokomine posted her 4th-straight 100-million-yen season thanks to her T9 finish; 2010 was her 6th-straight season finishing 4th or better on the season-ending money list and helped her move to #8 on the all-time JLPGA money list.  The golfer at #1 on that list, Yuri Fudoh, finished T4 and ended 2010 in the top 10 on the money list for the 10th time in her illustrious career.

Back to Park, she ended up winning close to a million dollars on the JLPGA in her rookie season and would have been the hands-down Rookie of the Year as a part-timer but for Sun-Ju Ahn's playing so well as a 1st-time full-timer on tour.  Since Park is skipping the LPGA's season-ending Tour Championship, she'll end 2010 with total winnings just shy of 2 million dollars.  I'd say she's fully recovered from her U.S. Women's Open jinx and is ready to contend for LPGA Player of the Year in 2011!