LPGA Americans Continue to Struggle in Asian Events at BetLM

LPGA Americans Continue to Struggle in Asian Events

Not only did Rickie Fowler hoist his first pro­fes­sional tro­phy on Sun­day in the Kolon Korea Open, but he also proved Amer­i­can play­ers can and do win in Asia. Don’t tell that to the Yan­kee ladies on the LPGA Tour, however.

With Yani Tseng win­ning her sixth LPGA title of the year at the Han­a­Bank Cham­pi­onship, she con­tin­ued a major Amer­i­can slide on the planet’s largest continent.

An Amer­i­can player has not won in an LPGA-sanctioned event in Asia since 1997, when Juli Inkster won the Sam­sung World Cham­pi­onship of Women’s Golf in South Korea. The event moved to the United States after Inkster took the title.

Dat­ing back to 1990, just three Amer­i­cans have won a total of four LPGA events in Asia. Aside from Inkster’s Korean win, they all came in the Japan. Betsy King won there in con­sec­u­tive years in 1992 and ’93, while Deb­bie Massey took the 1990 Mazda Japan Classic.

The Amer­i­can ladies of the LPGA can still win in a con­ti­nen­tal road game, how­ever, as Christina Kim proved that by win­ning the Sicil­ian Open on the Ladies Euro­pean Tour on Sunday.

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