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Not since Annika Sorenstam, Lorena Ochoa and Yani Tseng have we seen a lady dominate the LPGA tour like what Inbee Park has done this season, taking over the number one ranking with five wins, including three major titles.
After winning the opening two major championships of the 2013 season, Park teed up at the US Open this morning looking to clinch the third leg of the ‘Grand Slam’.
Providing Park can win this week, it will certainly add plenty of interest heading into the British Open and the newly added Evian Masters later in the year.
But she can be the second women to win the first three majors in a season if she’s successful this week, equally the feat of Babe Zaharias who won all three majors in 1950.
“This is the best I’m playing in my career so far,” Park said, “I’m trying to keep this going.”
“I’m trying to do that,” she added, referring to replicating the success of Sorenstam and Ochoa.
“It’s not the easiest thing. I’ve got to do a lot of things on the golf course, off the golf course that is a bit different to things that I’ve done before.
“A lot more pressure is on me, but this is somewhere that I’ve always wanted to come. Yeah, I’m trying to enjoy where I am and trying to keep this going as long as I can.”
Park’s dominance was on show last week in Arkansas as she came from behind to take the outright lead late in the final round before overcoming So Yeon Ryu in a playoff.
Nothing seems to faze Park, who only turns 25 next month.
The Korean has the chance to break multiple records this week, including being only the second lady to win three LPGA Tour events in a row and she has certainly stamped her position as a powerful force in women’s golf, much like the reign Tiger Woods once enjoyed on the men’s circuit.
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