Christina Kim has always recognized her father, Man Kim, for his efforts in making her golf career possible. He has not only provided her moral support since she began playing at the age of 11, but has also been her coach and her caddie. So father and daughter exchanged a kiss after the 21-year-old Kim won the Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions in Mobile, Ala., on Nov. 13.

The victory was the second of Kim’s LPGA career, which began in 2003. Her first tournament win was in 2004 at the Longs Drugs Challenge, and it was that success that made her most recent triumph possible. The Tournament of Champions is open to those who have won a LPGA tournament within the past two years, and players already inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Kim finished the Tournament of Champions at 15-under, just one stroke ahead of Australian Rachel Hetherington.

“I have been struggling since the Solheim [Cup in September], and to know that I could come out there and be a champion of champions, it’s an incredible feeling,” Kim told reporters. “All of the girls here know how to win, and to win this event is just unbelievable.”

Kim and her trophy on Nov. 13 in Montgomery, Ala.

— Patricia Sohn