The Limerick Summary: 2019 CME Group Tour Championship

Winner: Sei Young Kim

Around the wider world of golf: Jon Rahm won the DP WORLD TOUR Championship and the Race to Dubai on the ET; Tyler Duncan won the RSM Classic on the PGA Tour; Shugo Imahira won the Dunlop Phoenix on the Japan Golf Tour; and Pavit Tangkamolprasert won the Sabah Masters on the Asian Tour.

My Twofer Tuesday picks weren't too bad this week. I had Jin Young Ko (T11) to win and Nelly Korda (T3) to Top10. I don't know if it was the ankle injury or she just ran out of gas but, after the season she's had, I can forgive JYK for narrowly missing a Top10. And Nelly did what I expected.

• Winners: 3 for 47
• Place well (Top10): 20 for 47 (12 Top5s, 8 more Top10s)
• Overall Top10s: 37 of 94 (22 Top5s, 15 more Top10s)

Sei Young Kim's performance at Greg Norman's golf course was not something I expected. Although she's played well late in the year, it's been several months since her last win. But she led the event from Day 1... although she showed signs of nerves during the last two rounds.

It changed into most noticeable in Sunday's round. On both days she struggled to attain on the again nine, and inside the very last round she bogeyed the 14th to provide her pursuers wish. First Brooke Henderson published -15, two pictures back.

Next Danielle Kang charged up the leaderboard and posted at -16, a unmarried shot at the back of Sei Young.

Then Charley Hull birdied 5 of the ultimate seven holes to enroll in her at -17. Sei Young become blind to that; her caddie selected no longer to inform her exactly where she stood as she came down the stretch, simply telling her she'd be quality if she -putted the very last hollow for par. That could have given her a tie but Sei Young concept he supposed she'd win on account that Nelly Korda turned into at -sixteen.

In the quit it did not be counted. Her 25-foot birdie putt, which she turned into simply trying to relaxed up for an clean par, dropped in to present her the outright win (now not to mention the most important ever ladies's tournament payout).

Will this be the increase Sei Young desires to score her first predominant subsequent season? I do not know. It virtually gave her $1.5mil, the Race to the CME Globe identify, an area in records and (I believe) a totally Merry Christmas. But I'm positive all of that pales beside the understanding that she picked up a Limerick Summary as properly.

Sei Young Kim led the sphere from the begin.

Though her chasers refused to lose heart,

Their hopes got here to an cease

As her ultimate putt dropped in

For a win at the home of the Shark. The photo came from this page at lpga.com.