The 28-year-old wasn’t feeling her best when she woke on championship Sunday but fought through to shoot 1-under 71 and earn a share of seventh at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore.

The career resurgence of Kiwi Lydia Ko continues unabated as she completed a four-shot win, Green the best of the Aussies seven shots back.

With further title defences coming up at the JM Eagle LA Championship in April and BMW Ladies Championship in October, Green feels that the way she approached this week will be replicated later in the season.

“All of the tournaments that I will be defending this year, I won’t be playing the week before,” said Green.

“That just kind of works out luckily with the schedule. I think that will be easier in making sure that I’m not too tired come the end of the week.

“I feel like it would be difficult if it were back-to-back, like for Nelly (Korda), playing her tournaments defending.

“It’s good to have experienced Singapore. I think it might be one of the tougher ones to defend. It’s been a lot of fun, and I’ve got to make sure I enjoy as well sometimes and not put too much pressure on myself.”

Minjee Lee also continued her strong start to the LPGA season with a tie for 11th, younger brother Min Woo Lee also tied for 11th at the PGA TOUR’s Cognizant Classic in Florida.

Twelve strokes off the lead after Round 1, Lee began his northward climb on the leaderboard with a round of 6-under 65 in Round 2.

He started the final round in a share of 35th but ended the day knocking on the door of the top 10 with a closing 4-under 67 including back-to-back birdies at 17 and 18 to finish.

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Results

PGA TOUR
Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches
PGA National Resort (The Champion Cse), Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
1          Joe Highsmith             65-72-64-64—265       $US1.656m
T11      Min Woo Lee                71-65-68-67—271       $184,986
T39      Karl Vilips                     68-67-68-72—275       $41,860
MC       Ryan Fox (NZ)               67-71—138

LPGA Tour
HSBC Women’s World Championship
Sentosa Golf Club (Tanjong Cse), Singapore
1          Lydia Ko (NZ)                71-67-68-69—275       $US360,000
T7        Hannah Green              75-69-67-71—282       $59,183
T11      Minjee Lee                   70-72-68-73—283       $43,503
T48      Stephanie Kyriacou      82-71-70-72—295       $9,233
59        Gabriela Ruffels           80-71-76-75—302       $6,446
60        Grace Kim                    78-77-72-76—303       $6,197

DP World Tour
Investec South African Open Championship
Durban CC, Durban, South Africa
1          Dylan Naidoo              70-61-71—202             €245,489.01
T25      Kazuma Kobori (NZ)     67-73-69—209             €13,935.11

Korn Ferry Tour
118 Visa Argentina Open presented by Macro
Jockey Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1          Justin Suh                    64-68-60-65—257       $US180,000
T37      Harry Hillier (NZ)          68-66-71-66—271       $5,193
MC       Rhein Gibson               72-67—139