LPGA Tour: Hannah Inexperienced makes beautiful final-hole birdie to see off Celine Boutier at HSBC Ladies’s World Championship | Golf Information

Hannah Inexperienced made a shocking 30-foot birdie on the last gap to clinch a one-stroke victory over Celine Boutier on the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Ladies’s World Championship on Sunday.

It was the 27-year-old Australian’s fourth LPGA title, and first because the JM Eagle LA Championship final yr.

Boutier (67), who had stated on Saturday she was attending Taylor Swift’s Singapore live performance as a pleasant technique to loosen up for the ultimate spherical, appeared destined to win on Sunday as she pulled two strokes clear within the last phases just for Inexperienced to supply some magic of her personal to take the win.

The 30-year-old Frenchwoman, who gained 4 titles final season together with wins on the Ladies’s Scottish Open and the Evian Championship for her first main title, completed at 12 below.

Yuna Nishimura (66) had the equal-best spherical of the day as her six birdies in a blemish-free last spherical lifted her to a 9 below 279 and right into a four-way tie for third with Brooke Henderson (68), Mi Hyang Lee (67) and Nasa Hataoka (69).

In a single day chief Ayaka Furue of Japan had a disappointing spherical of three over as she slipped to a tie for eighth at 7-under 288 within the 66-player, no-cut event.

Additionally tied for eighth was two-time defending champion Jin Younger Ko (71) and Patty Tavatanakit (67), who gained final week’s LPGA occasion in Thailand.

Lydia Ko, who has 20 profession wins, together with two majors, shot 72 for a complete of 1-over 289 and completed in a tie for thirty fourth.

The event is the second of three straight weeks in Asia for the LPGA Tour. Subsequent week the tour strikes to China and the Blue Bay occasion on Hainan Island earlier than heading again throughout the Pacific and to Palos Verdes, California for its subsequent event starting March 21.

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