Golf Channel · Nov 17, 2016
Ko-Jutanugarn season-long battle ends at CME
Since she turned pro, Ko has treated the final week of the LPGA season like it’s a drive-through ATM window.
She won both the CME Group Tour Championship ($500,000) and the Race to the CME Globe ($1 million) in her rookie year in 2014, claiming the richest payday in the history of women’s golf. She took home more than the CME Globe’s $1 million jackpot again last year. She also took home the Rolex Player of the Year Award, becoming its youngest winner at 18 years old.
Of course, Ko is too humble to think of any event as an ATM, but she has made more in this one event than Hall of Famer Kathy Whitworth made her entire career ($1,722,760).