LPGA novice Jiyai Shin is the first win for the first time in the 2009 Rolex season

2009 of the first win for the first season of Rolex was called Sunday afternoon while the South Korean star Shin Jiyai a novice LPGA Tour, won the women champions of HSBC – and a check $ 300,000 settlement – by two races over Katherine Hull of the Chief of 54 holes. Shin overcame a deficit to four on back nine to take the lead in the novice Louise Suggs Rolex race of the year. Shin, 20, six races behind the hull at the beginning of the round and the back four with nine holes to play, took 11 under-par, 277 total to earn his first victory as a member of the LPGA tour. “I am very surprised and very happy,” said Shin, the English women win the open past August at Sunningdale. “I think I had the chance for the top 10, not for victory.” Shin has broken a record LPGA tour in 2008 for most wins by a non-circuit element with three (considered informal his career LPGA). Called “the queen Final Round” in South Korea, Jiyai Shin birdied the first four holes – opening with putts of nine and 12 feet, chipping in from 45 feet on No. 3 and add 15 feet shot – to get in position to benefit from the merger of the back-nine of the hull. “I do so on 15th hole, making a birdie. And Katherine, she at 13, is the double – ghost. I think she feels more pressure, “Shin said. “It begins when the head start and I tied for sixth. It looks at the points, it gets more, I feel great pressure. So I know the points, so I’m more set in my game just keep on the course open and the greens. “With the victory, Shin earned 150 valuable points to take the lead in the novice Louise Suggs Rolex of course of the year with 194 points, ahead of Michelle Wie (80 points), Mika Miyazato (67 points), Vicky Hurst (45 points) and Stacy Lewis (30 points).

The novice Louise Suggs Rolex Award for the year is attributed to first-year player in LPGA Tour, which marks the highest points in competition in which points are awarded based on finishing a player in an event. The points system is: 150 points for first, 80 points for second, 75 points for third, 70 points for fourth and 65 points for fifth. After the fifth place, points are awarded in the decreases of three, beginning at sixth place with 62 points. Points are doubled at major events and the championship of the LPGA season-end. Novices who are cut in an event and finish below the forty-first each receive five points. The award is named after Louise Suggs, one of the founders of the LPGA. Suggs was an inaugural recruited in the Pantheon of LPGA Tour, established in 1967 and was later installed in the Pantheon of world golf in 1979. It is also a member of the Sports Hall of Fame of Georgia. Rolex has been the proud sponsor of the novice Louise Suggs Rolex Award for the year since its beginning. One of the cofounders of the LPGA in 1950, Louise Suggs is pleased that both the excellence of LPGA Jiyai Shin novice and just how far the LPGA has come since the beginning.

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