Ruoning Yin of China performs her shot from the fifth tee through the first spherical of the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship introduced by P&G at Kenwood Nation Membership on September 07, 2023 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dylan Buell/Getty Photos/AFP (Photograph by Dylan Buell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Photos through AFP)
China’s Yin Ruoning grew to become the world primary in ladies’s golf on Sunday by ending third on the LPGA Queen Metropolis Championship.
The 20-year-old grew to become solely the second Chinese language lady to say the world primary rating after Feng Shanshan, who reached the summit from November 2017 to April 2018.
“It means quite a bit. For me it’s like dream come true,” Yin mentioned.
“I’ve bought goosebumps. World primary is the massive step on the way in which to chasing Shanshan.”
Yin will play on a Chinese language crew coached by Feng within the Asian Video games, which open on September 23 on house soil at Hangzhou.
“I didn’t get a variety of probability to talk with Shanshan,” Yin mentioned. “However I’m wanting ahead to going again to China and play the Asian Video games and spend extra time together with her, contemplating she’s the top coach on our nationwide crew.”
Yin, who wanted a top-four end result 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 turn out to be the fifth completely different participant atop the rankings this yr.
“It’s simply wonderful,” 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 introduced by P&G at Kenwood Nation Membership on September 07, 2023 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Justin Casterline/Getty Photos/AFP (Photograph by Justin Casterline / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Photos through AFP)
Second-ranked Yin gained her first main title in June on the Girls’s PGA Championship, two months after accumulating 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 Girls’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 place and each week I can put myself into that profitable circle. It’s simply wonderful 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 method to the clubhouse.
“Earlier than this week, I do know (relying on) what place I end, I will be the world primary,” Yin mentioned. “I simply maintain 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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