Inbee Park is back in form and walked away from the field at The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Harrison New York. Park’s final round 68 gave her a five shot margin of victory over Sei Young Kim.
While this tournament is now billed as the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship with the new partnership of the PGA, LPGA and KPMG, Park had won the older version of this event the prior two seasons. So this gives her three straight LPGA Championships.
It is her sixth major and she has won five of the last twelve women’s majors. Park also finds herself atop the Rolex World Rankings as she displaces Lydia Ko who had missed the cut this week.
The week in Westchester has been hailed as an overwhelming success for the PGA, KPMG and the LPGA. I think Park would certainly agree.
A few hours north on Rt.95 in Massachusetts Bernhard Langer got off his ’15 skid and defended his Constellation Senior PLAYERS Championship with a walk in the park victory. Although Langer shot his highest round of the week (68) he still managed to pull away from the field and beat runner up Kirk Triplet by six strokes.
It is Langer’s sixth senior major and 24th Champions Tour win.
Who is Fabian Gomez you ask? Well, he’s the latest PGA Tour winner and his 66 today was enough to earn him his first PGA Tour win at the FedEx St. Jude Classic.
Gomez had played on tour in 2011 and 2013 but had to win his tour card back last year on the Web.Com Tour. Gomez pockets $1.08 million and he is exempt on tour through the 2016-17 season. So he’s got that going for him.
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