Pornanong Phatlum gained the 2026 Hero Ladies’s Indian Open for the fourth time, firing in a sensational rating of 65 on the ultimate day.
Phatlum went bogey-free within the last spherical at DLF Golf & Nation Membership to leapfrog residence favorite Vani Kapoor and safe a four-shot victory on 11 below par.
“I am so blissful proper now,” stated the 36-year-old, who additionally gained the trophy on the Arnold Palmer course in 2008, 2009 and 2012.
“I did not suppose I used to be going to win once more, however I attempted my finest. This was a unbelievable spherical for me. Each putt on the entrance 9 dropped within the gap. Immediately feels unbelievable.
“I wished to come back again and check out my finest right here once more as a result of I’ve such good reminiscences right here – fantastic reminiscences. That is my fourth win right here, so it makes me very blissful.”
Pornanong Phatlum has now gained the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open 4 instances.
Teeing up within the last group with Kapoor and defending champion Shannon Tan on Sunday, and trailing the Indian by one shot, a match play scenario rapidly ensued between the 2 as each gamers birdied the opening par-4 – Kapoor after chipping in from the again of the inexperienced.
The house favorite would birdie the second to open up a two shot lead earlier than Phatlum responded with a superb birdie on the third. This was adopted by three extra birdies on the fifth, eighth and ninth because the Sunday rivals made the flip all sq..
On to the again 9, and Kapoor would squander her lead for the primary time within the last spherical, dropping a stroke on the tenth after her tee shot took at unlucky kick.
Regardless of a bounce-back birdie on the eleventh, Kapoor handed LPGA star Phatlum the benefit once more by dropping photographs on the twelfth and thirteenth.
Vani Kapoor had her finest end on the LET.
After a string of pars, birdies adopted on the fifteenth and sixteenth as Phatlum drained two good putts. Two pars to complete in entrance of the watching gallery would safe Phatlum a four-shot victory and historic fourth title – 18 years after her first.
Taking part in at her residence course, DLF Golf & Nation Membership Kapoor got here second on seven below, nonetheless her finest end on the LET.
“I gave it my finest,” stated Kapoor, who carded a spherical of 70 (-2) on Sunday. “Every little thing went in response to plan. I do not suppose I may have finished something extra. I made quite a lot of birdies, particularly contemplating the quantity of strain there was.
“I do not suppose I’d have made so many birdies in a single spherical earlier than. I made a few errors too, however that is a part of the sport. It is higher to just accept it.”
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