Yuri Yoshida gained the BMW Women Championship holding off Haeran Ryu and Hye-Jin Choi in an in depth end at Pine Seashore Golf Hyperlinks on Sunday.
It was Yoshida’s first LPGA Tour victory and got here in dramatic finale as each in a single day chief Ryu and Yoshida bogeyed the ultimate gap leaving the Japanese participant forward by one stroke at 17-under after 4 rounds.
Yoshida was 4 pictures off the tempo going into Sunday’s remaining spherical however lit up the entrance 9 with an eagle on the par-5 second, adopted by three consecutive birdies.
Bogeys on the fifteenth and 18th was offset by a vital birdie on the seventeenth which gave the 26-year-old the buffer she wanted.
Ryu led the event by 4 strokes going into the ultimate spherical, however could not discover the identical rhythm on Sunday as she shot a 73 to complete at 16-under.
The South Korean made 15 consecutive pars earlier than dropping a vital shot on the par-4 sixteenth which handed again Yoshida’s one-shot benefit.
Yoshida discovered scintillating type on the entrance 9 of the ultimate spherical
Each participant’s made birdies on the seventeenth, however a pricey miss for Ryu at 18 allowed Yoshida to clinch it, regardless of the Japanese golfer additionally making bogey.
Hye-Jin Choi, who was in a tie for second coming within the remaining spherical, stayed in competition all through Sunday and blended 4 birdies with a lone bogey to complete at 16-under, and a shot behind Yoshida in a tie for second with Ryu.
Choi continues to be on the lookout for her first victory in 125 profession LPGA Tour begins as a member. She has held or shared a 54-hole lead 5 occasions in her LPGA profession with out changing it right into a win.
Final week in Shanghai, Choi was runner-up by one stroke to China’s Ruoning Yin after the South Korean golfer led after every of the primary three rounds.
Defending champion Sei Younger Kim, who ended a five-year victory drought in 2025 with a win final yr in South Korea, shot 70 on Sunday and completed at 2-under and in a tie for fifty fifth.
In its late-season Asian swing, the LPGA Tour strikes to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia subsequent week for the Maybank Championship, the third of 4 occasions.
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