While playing on the LPGA Tour is a tough job, winning on it is even tougher. However, the league is starred with many talented faces who, over the years, have delivered some excellent results. And this week as the Tour season ends, some players are showing top-notch games at the CME Championship.

One such player is LPGA veteran golfer Amy Yang, who is currently the top name at the season finale at Tiburon Golf Club and hasn’t bogeyed since the first hole of the opening round. At the press conference after the third round, Candidly spoke about the revival of her career.

Amy Yang goes candid while leading the CME Championship

Playing on the LPGA for a long time, the South Korean golfer has four wins to her name. She is a three-time winner of the Honda LPGA Thailand and has won the LPGA KEB Hanahan Championship. She has also scored two victories on the Ladies European Tour and the KLPGA. As one can see, she had a good career going on until her big injury. After a health break, she has returned and seems back in her form.

During the presser, she was asked about the injuries that she battled in recent years, further her return to golf has been really impressive with great performance on the greens. To which she said, “Yeah, yeah, when I first had tennis elbow on my left arm I thought my career would be done very soon, so that wasn’t very nice. She went on to speak about her comeback and iterated, “So I’m glad, I think I’m 100% fully back, so I’m just happy where I am, yeah.”

When prompted more, Amy revealed that her tennis elbow was caused by too much rock climbing. The reporter further asked her if she was worried that maybe her career might have come to an end due to the injury. Answering about the longevity of her career, Yang said, “Back then, maybe like a year or two, because it was really hurting. Like I couldn’t hit the ball through.”

Yang added that she couldn’t hit through the ball and was scared. “I lost a lot of distance and was scared about going for it and it took a while. Once again Yang expressed her happiness as she emphasized on her return and stated,” I’m fully back now.”

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Yang’s injury and performance in 2023

Some time ago Yang took up a new hobby of rock climbing, which did not suit her well, and left her with a tennis elbow in her left arm. She didn’t even take a hat sponsor as she wanted to deal with no extra pressure this season. Given her injury, Yang has performed extremely well this season with numerous top 50 finishes and two Top four finishes at the AIG Women’s Open and last week’s Annika Driven. This week she is playing some of the best golf since her comeback.

At CME she is tied for the first spot with Nasa Hataoka after the third round at 21-under 295. Now the final round on Sunday will decide who gets to take the trophy home this weekend.

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