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Inbee Park Reigns at Major, No Matter What It’s Called

HARRISON, N.Y. — The celebration continued after the television cameras had turned off, with all sorts of people stepping to the microphone at the 18th green of Westchester Country Club’s West Course to heap praise on Inbee Park.

For the second straight year, Park had arrived at the season’s second major as the reigning champion and left with the same distinction. So the L.P.G.A. Tour’s commissioner, Michael Whan, took the opening to crack a joke.

The tour had had to add a new base to the big silver trophy to accommodate all of the names, and the last one on the old base was Park’s — from 2013.