Annie Park of USC and Levittown, N.Y., managed only a tie for 14th in the Symetra Tour Championship, but it didn’t matter much because she already had punched her ticket to the LPGA Tour next season.
Park, who left the Trojans after her junior season in June, topped the Volvik Race for the Card money list with $68,673 and led 10 players who earned player privileges on the big circuit for 2016.
“It means a lot to earn my card,” said Park, who became the first player to win Symetra Tour Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards since Mina Harigae of Monterey in 2009.
“It has been a lifelong dream to play on (the LPGA) Tour and to finally get status is unbelievable. I still can’t believe that I got my card, but I’m going to have to believe it next year.”
Park, who won the Toyota Danielle Downey Classic, the PHC Classic and the Prairie Band Casino & Resort Charity Classic, joined Harigae, Vicky Hurst (2008), Song-Hee Kim (2006), Lorena Ochoa (2002), Beth Bauer (2001) and Grace Park (1999) as the only players to win both the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards.
Brianna Do of UCLA and Lakewood wound up third on the money list after finishing second in the last two events, the IOA Golf Classic and the Symetra Tour Championship. “I’m overwhelmed with all kinds of different emotions,” said Do, who had four other top-10 results, including another runner-up finish in the Chico’s Patty Berg Memorial. “I’m excited. I’m relieved. It’s just a crazy moment right now and I’m trying to soak it in.”
Annie Park of USC and Levittown, N.Y., managed only a tie for 14th in the Symetra Tour Championship, but it didn’t matter much because she already had punched her ticket to the LPGA Tour next season.
Park, who left the Trojans after her junior season in June, topped the Volvik Race for the Card money list with $68,673 and led 10 players who earned player privileges on the big circuit for 2016.
“It means a lot to earn my card,” said Park, who became the first player to win Symetra Tour Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards since Mina Harigae of Monterey in 2009.
“It has been a lifelong dream to play on (the LPGA) Tour and to finally get status is unbelievable. I still can’t believe that I got my card, but I’m going to have to believe it next year.”
Park, who won the Toyota Danielle Downey Classic, the PHC Classic and the Prairie Band Casino & Resort Charity Classic, joined Harigae, Vicky Hurst (2008), Song-Hee Kim (2006), Lorena Ochoa (2002), Beth Bauer (2001) and Grace Park (1999) as the only players to win both the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards.
Brianna Do of UCLA and Lakewood wound up third on the money list after finishing second in the last two events, the IOA Golf Classic and the Symetra Tour Championship. “I’m overwhelmed with all kinds of different emotions,” said Do, who had four other top-10 results, including another runner-up finish in the Chico’s Patty Berg Memorial. “I’m excited. I’m relieved. It’s just a crazy moment right now and I’m trying to soak it in.”
Dani Holmqvist of Cal and Sweden finished fifth on the money list, while Lee Lopez of UCLA and Whitter was sixth.
Others earning LPGA Tour cards were No. 2 Giulia Molinaro of Italy and Arizona State; No. 4 Daniela Iacobelli of Melbourne, Fla., and Florida Institute of Technology; No. 7 Alejandra Llaneza of Mexico and the University of Arizona; No. 8. of Vicky Hurst Melbourne, Fla.; No. 9 Casey Grice of College Station, Texas, and the University of North Carolina, and No. 10 Rachel Rohanna of Waynesburg, Penn., and Ohio State.
