{"id":5382,"date":"2013-09-23T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ko-inches-to-no-4-in-womens-world-rankings\/"},"modified":"2013-09-23T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T13:59:00","slug":"ko-inches-to-no-4-in-womens-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ko-inches-to-no-4-in-womens-world-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko inches to No. 4 in women&#8217;s world rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Despite the LPGA having the week off, amateur sensation Lydia Ko moved up a spot to No. 4 in this week&#8217;s women&#8217;s world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old, who won the Canadian Women&#8217;s Open among her six top-10 finishes this season, inched up a spot from fifth last week.<\/p>\n<p>The top three players remained the same ahead of Ko, with Inbee Park maintaining the top spot and again being followed by Suzann Pettersen and Stacy Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>So Yeon Ryu also moved up a place to fifth, while Na Yeon Choi dropped a pair of slots to sixth. Karrie Webb held firm in seventh.<\/p>\n<p>I.K. Kim and Catriona Matthew both jumped up a spot to sit in eighth and ninth, causing Shanshan Feng to fall two places to round out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr and Jiyai Shin stayed put from 11th to 13th ahead of Ai Miyazato and Lizette Salas, who swapped places to sit in 14th and 15th, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Stanford, Hee Young Park and Beatriz Recari were again placed 16th through 18th. Ai Miyazato moved up a place to 19th, resulting in former world No. 1 Yani Tseng dropping a place to round out the top 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Despite the LPGA having the week off, amateur sensation Lydia Ko moved up a spot to No. 4 in this week&#8217;s women&#8217;s world rankings. The 16-year-old, who won the Canadian Women&#8217;s Open among her six top-10 finishes this season, inched up a spot from fifth last week. The top three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}