Ruoning Yin is one of the leading Chinese female golfers on the planet, having won a major title and been World No.1 by the age of 21.
She was born in Shanghai in 2001 and took up golf at an early age, before going on to win a large number of amateur titles. Yin won nine times as an amateur in 2019, having won a Bronze Medal at the Asian Games a year earlier as a 16-year-old.
Yin turned professional at the start of 2020 and immediately became a star on the China LPGA Tour. She won her first three tournaments – the Zhuhai Guowei Centre Plaza Hollywood Mansion Challenge, Moutai Golf Liquor Zhuhai Golden Gulf Challenge and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Orient Masters. In doing so, she broke two Guinness World Records.
Following her graduation from the LPGA Q-Series, she struggled slightly in her first season on the LPGA Tour in 2022. A year later, she grabbed her first LPGA Tour victory, winning the DIO Implant LA Open. In doing so she became just the second Chinese woman to win on the tour. Yin then claimed her first major title a couple of months later, winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol. She then became the first Chinese woman to ever reach World No.1 in September of 2023.
Her great form continued into the 2024 season, claiming three titles on the LPGA Tour. Her first came alongside Atthaya Thitikul at the Dow Championship, before then winning the Buick LPGA Shanghai and the Maybank Championship in the tour’s eastern swing in the autumn.
