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Stacy Lewis earns LPGA's triple crown of season-long honors

Stacy Lewis completed a season on Sunday that the LPGA hadn't seen in 21 years. With her finish at the CME Group Tour Championship, Lewis became the first American since 1993 to win the tour's money title, as well player of the year and scoring average awards in the same season.

With a final-round, 1-under 71 at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla., Lewis finished T-9 to secure all three honors. Betsy King was the last American to pull of the feat.

Lewis successfully defended the Vare Trophy, the LPGA's award for the player with the lowest scoring average. She did it facing the stiffest competition for the honor in tour history, with a record four players recording sub-70 averages for the season.

The Arkansas product won player of the year honors in 2012, ending an American drought dating back to 1994 for the points-based award. That year, Beth Daniel took both the Vare Trophy and Rolex Player of the Year trophies. However, Daniel couldn't sweep the tour's major awards as Laura Davies took the money title.

Lewis didn't win a major title this season, but she did win three LPGA titles, part of the 13 won by Americans during the 2014 campaign. That baker's dozen is the highest number of American wins in a single LPGA season since 1999.


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