"There's still a lot I want to achieve..."I already made plans for next year."

"There's still a lot I want to achieve..."I already made plans for next year."

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Shin Ji-ae, 36, who is about to take the top spot in the JLPGA tour prize money, has no intention to stop. For Shin, who has set a record by winning 64 games in her professional career, No. 1 in the JLPGA tour prize money is not her ultimate goal but a process. She has already set plans for next season, and is aiming for new goals including 30 wins in her JLPGA tour and career Grand Slam.

During a recent interview with Maeil Business, Shin said, "My life as a professional golfer is still ongoing. I have a lot of things I want to achieve in the future," adding, "I am thinking about how I will spend this winter to successfully spend the next season. I have already completed some plans for next season."

Shin, who has been maintaining the JLPGA tour since 2014 after passing through Korea and the U.S., is one of the living legends who has won 28 titles in total. Shin, who is ranking second in the prize money rankings with 1,366,106,344 yen (about 12.44 billion won), has effectively reserved a new record. As the gap with Japan's Yu-ri is only 6,514,038 yen (about 59 million won), Shin is drawing attention whenever she participates in recent competitions.
What does No. 1 in overall prize money mean? "I haven't set a record yet, but I've been able to reach my current position through the efforts of the past 11 years," Shin said after a brief thought. "I think it's a record that you can never overcome if you were alone, but a lot of people have helped me. I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all the people involved, including sponsors, associations, and management."

He said that he erased "what if" and "regret" from his mind as the key to maintaining competitiveness to win the championship for more than a decade and earning an average of 4,615,224 yen (about 42 million won) per competition. "What I hate the most is what if and what I regret the most is. I try to stay away from golf as much as possible because what is not helpful in life as well as golf," Shin said. "Since I played in Japan in 2014, I have not had a single championship that I regret at all. I am satisfied with the 296 competitions that I have participated in so far as I have fought against the competitors with all my might."

Another thing that helped Shin Ji-ae maintain her top skills even in her mid-30s, when most of her peers retired, is the desire to win. Shin Ji-ae emphasized, "I'm greedy and don't want to lose is the same as in 2005 when I became a professional. This year is the 20th year since I debuted as a professional, but I'm still hungry and have a lot to achieve. As new dreams continue to arise, I'll do my best without being satisfied with the present."

Shin, who will rise to No. 1 in total prize money ranking this season as early as the end of this month or later, has already set 30 career wins and career Grand Slam as her next goals. With 28 wins, Shin will become the permanent seed of the JLPGA Tour if she adds two more wins. There is only one win left until the career Grand Slam.

"Whenever I become a new record holder, I have two thoughts. The first is that I want someone to break my record quickly, and the second is that I set an overwhelming record that no one can beat me. I hope I can be the latter in the overall prize money ranking. I will continue to win as many prize money as I cannot easily surpass the top spot 토토사이트," Shin said.

Shin Ji-ae, who has not been in the top 10 on the JLPGA Tour since the Minnebea Mitsumi Ladies Hokkaido Newspaper Cup in July, showed a game-changer to change her putt stroke to embrace the trophy once again. "The most unsatisfactory thing about this season's record is that there are not many competitions from the first day to the last day that have written down the number of pars in their 60s. Compared to last year, it seems to have decreased by nearly 30 percent," Shin said. "I am making various efforts, such as correcting my putt posture and refining my swing. I will prepare well so that I can enjoy more than one win in the rest of the season."

The BMW Ladies Championship of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour, which will be held at Seowon Hills Course of Seowon Valley Country Club in Paju, Gyeonggi Province for four days from the 17th, will meet Korean fans for the first time in a long time. Shin Ji-ae said, "I want to perform well this year as I have a good memory of tying for fifth place last year. Every time I play in Korea, I get a lot of energy. I will make a valuable result with confidence that I won the runner-up prize at the US Women's Open last year and the AIG Women's Open in August."