21 Dec 2020

Fifth place for Ko at Tour Championship

9:21 am on 21 December 2020

Lydia Ko has rounded out a much-improved 2020 LPGA Tour season with another top 10 finish.

Lydia Ko of New Zealand looks on from the third tee during the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club on December 20, 2020 in Naples, Florida.

Photo: AFP

Ko, 23, has secured a share of fifth place at the Tour Championship in Florida after closing with a three-under 69.

Her final round was blemish-free, with three birdies, to finish at 11-under par, seven shots behind the runaway winner, world number one Jin Young Ko of South Korea.

It is Lydia Ko's fifth top 10 of the truncated season.

She missed the cut just once in her 13 starts in 2020, at the Australian Open in February, and finished in the top 20 nine times.

Ko was 11th on the overall standings entering the Tour Championship, after finishing a distant 36th in 2019, when she had four top 10s from 24 tournaments.