LPGA Tour: Hong Kong’s Tiffany Chan achieves best result of season; looks forward to 2021 campaign and top-50 place
- The 27-year-old shoots 74 in her final round to finish joint 25th at the Volunteers of America Classic, having posted a 66 in the third round
- Chan says the four-month Covid-19 break in Hong Kong affected her play when she returned to the tour in August, missing four cuts in a row
Hong Kong’s Tiffany Chan Tsz-ching completed her best finish of the disrupted LPGA Tour season and immediately turned her attention to the 2021 campaign with the aim of fulfilling her goal of a top-50 ranking.
The 27-year-old shot a final round of three-over-par 74 at the Volunteers of American Classic in Texas for a four-round total of 288, 11 strokes behind American winner Angela Stanford – whose 277 was two ahead of South Koreans Ryu So-yeon and Park Inbee and US player Yealimi Noh.
Chan spent four months in Hong Kong after the LPGA Tour suspended tournaments because of the Covid-19 pandemic and her lack of golf during that time affected her play when she returned to the United States in August.
Ranked 123rd in the LPGA points table, Chan missed four cuts in a row before a joint-66th at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in October. She followed up with a tied 69th at the Pelican Women’s Championship in November, leading up to her tied-25th in The Colony in Texas, where she shot 66 in the third round. She earned prize money of US$14,502, taking her total to US$29,349 for the season.
“I went home [to Hong Kong] for four months and didn’t play much golf or work out,” said Chan, the Rio 2016 Olympian who hopes to represent Hong Kong at next year’s Tokyo Games. “We were in lockdown and golf courses were closed, so it took me a while to get back to my feel of playing.
