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Qualifying for the LPGA is harder now, she said, and women's golf has become so popular in Asia that many talented South Koreans are happy to make a good living closer to home, competing on the Korea and Japan LPGA tours.
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Germany's Sandra Gal claimed third ahead of South Korea's Ilhee Lee, LPGA Championship winner Shanshan Feng of China and Italy's Giulia Sergas in fourth equal.
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Television rights sold to South Korea form the largest slice of the LPGA Tour's broadcast revenue, and Korean advertisers favor the women's game over the men's.
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Se Ri Pak of South Korea turned pro at 19, in 1996, and took the LPGA Tour by storm, winning 22 times.
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Teenage sensation Lydia Ko, who was born in South Korea but is a New Zealand national, stormed to her first LPGA Tour title last month, with much expected of the 15-year-old at Hoylake.
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Of the 26 international players in the LPGA's last two rookie classes, only five came from South Korea and eight from other Asian countries.
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Sun-Young Yoo, also of South Korea, took the Kraft Nabisco Championship, while China's Shanshan Feng won June's LPGA Championship.
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