Volvik staff player Chella Choi earned her 5th Top 10 finish and 13th Top 25 finish of the 2016 season Sunday with a T7 finish at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico.
Choi played her Orange S3 golf ball to a 69-69-71-69 10 under par showing at the annual LPGA Tour event.
Fellow Volvik staff player Pornanong Phatlum finished t12th at the event, shooting 7 under par with her Pink S3 95-compression golf ball. She also earned her 5th Top 10 of the 2016 season in Mexico.
Both players enter the final event of the LPGA Tour season this week at the CME Group Tour Championship in good position in the Race to the CME Globe point standings that will pay off the player at the top of the standings after this week $1 Million. The CME Group Tour Championship is being played at the newly renovated Tiburon Golf Club at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Fla.
Choi enters the event 31st in the Race to the CME with 1,309 points while Phatlum enters the event ranked 25th with 1,435 points. A total of 72 players qualified for the event, based on points. Once the field has been determined the points will be reset. The top nine players in the Race for the CME Globe standings will have a mathematical chance to be crowned the season long CME Race to the Globe champion.
Volvik staff players have earned eight Top 5 finishes, 14 Top 10 finishes and 23 Top 25 finishes this season on the LPGA Tour.
Phatlum ranks 5th and Choi ranks 10th in driving accuracy on the 2016 LPGA Tour, a trait that the S3 golf ball has become well known for.
The S3 is a premium, next-level ultra-performance golf ball that is the first of its kind to the US market. The S3 is a 95-compression Double-Urethane cover golf ball that has proven itself on every major professional tour worldwide and that has won numerous awards, including a Golf Digest Hot List award.
The Orange S3 has won twice on the LPGA Tour, once with Lee and once with Choi, making it the only Orange golf ball to win in the history of the LPGA Tour.
About Volvik
Volvik is the #1 Color Golf Ball on Tour with over 75 professionals using Volvik’s ultra high-performance color golf balls on the world’s professional tours. Since 2012, players using Volvik golf balls have earned over $9 million in prize money on the PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, Champions Tour, Web.com Tour, Ladies European Tour, LAGT and Symetra Tour with 15 victories and over 130 Top 10 finishes. Volvik is also the official golf ball of World Long Drive and enjoyed drives of over 435 yards in the 2016 WLD Championship with Orange and Pink golf balls.
Volvik has experienced more color golf balls in play on the world’s professional tours than any other manufacturer in the history of golf. Volvik is dedicated to the production of specialized 3- and 4-piece multi-layer golf balls that feature 41 worldwide patents.
In over 35 years of golf ball production, Volvik has developed a reputation based on highly innovative development, quickly becoming one of the most significant and trusted golf ball manufacturers in the world.
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