SHANGHAI — American Solheim Cup participant Angel Yin defeated top-ranked Lilia Vu on the primary playoff gap to win the LPGA Shanghai event on Sunday for her first tour win.
Each Yin and Vu completed at 14-under 274 on the Qizhong Backyard Golf Membership course forcing a playoff, the place Yin made a birdie on the par-4 18th after Vu had narrowly missed her 20-foot birdie putt.
It was 25-year-old Yin’s first victory in her 159th begin and he or she shared a heat embrace with compatriot Vu on her breakthrough win.
“It isn’t simple to win. (I am) simply very grateful,” Yin stated. “Actually, 18 that bunker the place I used to be in, something may have occurred, however I used to be very lucky to have an excellent lie and was capable of hit shot and the whole lot performed out the best way it performed out.
“It has been a particular week.”
Yin was tied with Maja Stark for the in a single day lead at 12 underneath and on Sunday shot a 70, with three birdies and a lone bogey on the sixth.
Vu shot a 4-under 68, with six birdies and two bogeys, and was the clubhouse chief at 14-under, till Yin birdied the par-5 seventeenth after which made par on the ultimate gap to pressure a playoff.
“I made lots of errors in the present day, to be sincere, and I felt like this was undoubtedly not my A-game, however I knew that the extra I play the golf course the higher I get at it, and I knew I had probability in the present day,” Vu stated. “In the present day was simply Angel’s day. I am blissful for her.”
5 gamers completed in a tie for third at 13 underneath: South Korea’s Choi Hye-jin who shot a 64, Thai pair Pavarisa Yoktuan (70) and Ariya Jutanugarn (69), Yu Liu (68) and Esther Henseleit (68).
Maja Stark, who was joint in a single day chief with Yin, had a irritating day as she made a good par spherical to complete in a tie for eighth with a 12-under 276.
Two-time defending champion Danielle Kang of the USA shot 71 to complete 5 strokes again in a tie for seventeenth at 9 underneath.
The occasion, the LPGA’s first return to China since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is the beginning of a four-tournament Asia swing, with later stops in South Korea, Malaysia and Japan.
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