With her win, Inbee moved to No. 9 on Rolex Ranking.
Korean qualification for 2018 International Crown seems to be tougher than 2016 for Olympics. Any combinations of So Yeon, Sung Hyun, IK, In Gee, Inbee and Jin Young are all still possible.
Fifteen-year-old American Lucy Li is one of six amateur invitations to the 2018 ANA Inspiration at Mission Hills Country Club from March 26 – April 1.
Joining her in the elite group of amateurs is the 2017 U.S Amateur champion, 22-year-old American Sophia Shubert; the highest ranked invitee Lilia Vu, who sits at No. 2 on the Official World Amateur Golf Rankings; and World No. 5 Albane Valenzuela from Switzerland. Valenzuela makes her second appearance in the event having captured Low Amateur honors in 2016. She is Switzerland’s No. 1 ranked golfer and is the only amateur invitee to appear at the 2016 Olympic Games.
Rounding out the amateur invitations are Mexico’s No. 1, Maria Fassi, who will make her debut in Rancho Mirage, as well as the newly crowned Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Golf Championship inaugural winner, Atthaya Thitikul from Thailand, who lifted the trophy last week in Singapore. No stranger to success, Thitikul is the youngest-ever Ladies European Tour winner having won The Thailand Championship last summer aged 14.
Ex-JLPGAer Miho Koga will do on-site reporting for TV WOWOW...then she'll travel to Augusta Nat'l GC to watch her husband Satoshi Kodaira compete at The Masters...this assumes he'll still be in the top-50 of the world rankings after the Dell Match Play (he's currently 44th).