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Ko has emerged strongest of world’s three top-ranked players who were grouped together for the first two rounds.

Kris Tamulis won the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title. None completed more than 14 holes in the third round.

Neither landed a knockout punch.

He arrives at his hotel late Sunday and turns on the television to see his town’s favourite daughter, Brooke Henderson, winning by nine shots on the LPGA Tour.

World No 5 So Yeon Ryu is one shot back, after a storming eight-under through 17 holes, with world No 3 Stacy Lewis of the US a greater danger on the same score, as she has five holes to play.

Icher, who grabbed the first-round lead with a seven-under 65 late in the day on Thursday, knows she won’t be getting any gift-wrapped first-place cheques from Ko this weekend.

A 64 will do that.

“I haven’t thought about too much yet”, she concluded.

After shooting a 71 on Saturday, Tseng sat at six-under 230.

Icher made par on each of the final seven holes.

She’s only the third player to win such a title before turning 18 and she is the first Canadian, regardless of age, to win an LPGA Tour event since Lorie Kane of Charlottetown won the Takefuji Classic in 2001 – when Henderson was a three-year-old.

Canadian teen Brooke Henderson won the LPGA Tour’s Cambia Portland Classic last Sunday, but that didn’t guarantee her the two-season exemption that comes with a victory.

Brooke Henderson believes the time she spent between the pipes growing up can give her a big assist this week as she tries to become the first Canadian in over 40 years to win Canada’s national women’s golf championship.

Going into the final round Henderson had opened up a five-shot lead over Tour veteran Morgan Pressel, her closest challenger. The Canadian, who turns 18 on September 10, closed with a comfortable three-under 69 for the largest margin of victory on the LPGA circuit this year.