Singapore: Korean teenager Lee Hyo-song continued her brilliant run of form to move within reach of a top-20 position in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR).

With a three-day total of seven-under-par 209 at Seongmunan Country Club, Lee overcame the best players from Korea, Japan and Chinese Taipei in the three-nation Neighbors Trophy.

The 15-year-old ended two shots ahead of second-placed compatriot Kim Min-sol with Oh Soo-min in a share of seventh spot.

Thanks to her individual win, Lee has risen seven places in the WAGR to 23rd, with Kim (fourth) and Oh (14th) the only two Koreans ahead of her in the standings.

Lee has been a model of consistency this year to date. As well as finishing runner-up to Chinese Taipei’s Wu Chun-wei in February’s Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) in Thailand, Lee was third individually in the Queen Sirikit Cup in New Zealand, eighth in the Chinese Taipei Amateur Championship and second (behind Oh) in the Dolmen Cup Amateur Championship.

Also making progress in the women’s WAGR last week were China’s Wang Xiyuan and Australian Michelle Bang.

Wang, tied 26th at this year's WAAP, finished second to Ji Yuai in the China LPGA Tour’s Tianjin Women’s Open, taking low amateur honours.

She has improved her WAGR by 17 spots to 141st, second among China players, behind only Zhang Yahui (65th).

Bang, meanwhile, has soared 30 places to 459th on the back of winning the Girls’ Under-21 division in the Faldo Series Asia Grand Final at Vietnam’s Laguna Lang Co.

Also trending upwards is Vietnam’s Nguyen Duc Son. Overall winner of the 15th Faldo Series Asia Grand Final, Son has soared 267 places to 842nd in the men’s WAGR.

It’s the first time he’s broken into the top 1,000 where he joins five other Vietnamese, including Doay Un whose runner-up finish at Laguna Lang Co has enabled him to climb to 751st, up 34.

It also puts him hot on the heels of Reo Maruo, winner of the previous week’s The Royal Junior.

With his win at The Royal Golf Club in his native Japan, Maruo advanced more than 150 places to 737th in the WAGR.

Elsewhere, victory in the Pac-12 Men’s Golf Championships has taken Australian Karl Vilips into the world top-20.

The Stanford University student eked out a one-shot victory thanks to a two-under-par 282 total (68, 75, 71 and 68). Already Australia’s number one amateur, Vilips improves that status by climbing 10 rankings to 16th, putting him second among Asia-Pacific players, behind only China’s Ding Wenyi, who is sixth.