Lilia Vu fired a four-under 68 in her last spherical – the joint-lowest rating of the day – to set the clubhouse lead at 10 below; England’s Georgia Hall additionally shot a last spherical of 68, as did world No 3 Jin Young Ko, however they completed 5 below and 7 below, respectively
Last Updated: 24/04/23 1:51am
Lilia Vu celebrates with the trophy after her playoff win over Angel Yin to assert the Chevron Championship
Lilia Vu defeated Angel Yin in a playoff to assert her first main title and the primary of the season with victory on the Chevron Championship.
Replaying the par-five 18th at Carlton Woods in Texas after the pair tied at 10 below for the event, Yin’s second shot discovered the water in entrance of the inexperienced.
Vu was over the inexperienced in two pictures, however left herself a mid-range putt for birdie to win the championship which she duly holed to cue emotional celebrations from the 25-year-old.
This 12 months’s event marked the primary time the main was performed someplace apart from Mission Hills Country Club in California, the place the profitable golfers maintained a long-standing custom of leaping into Poppie’s Pond to have a good time.
But regardless of the transfer, Vu maintained the custom by leaping into the lake subsequent to the 18th inexperienced.
She fired a four-under 68 in her last spherical – the joint-lowest rating of the day – to set the clubhouse lead. England’s Georgia Hall additionally shot a last spherical of 68, as did world No 3 Jin Young Ko, however they completed 5 below and 7 below, respectively.
Yin, who was co-leader in a single day with Allisen Corpuz, was 11 below for the event by 15 holes to carry a one-shot lead with three to play, however back-to-back bogeys adopted at 16 and 17 after discovering bunkers in every gap.
Yin recovered effectively on the 18th, birdieing the final to complete off an even-par spherical of 72 and pressure a playoff after tying Vu at 10 below.
Yin couldn’t repeat the job when replaying the opening minutes later as a part of the playoff, hitting her second shot into the water, which opened the door for Vu to wrap up a memorable victory together with her birdie putt.
“I am unable to even put into phrases what I used to be feeling,” Vu stated after the win. “I used to be nervous, I used to be scared, I used to be chilly.
“I simply wished to hit the putt and be accomplished with it.
“Everything occurs for a motive… I do not understand how I pulled this out, however I’m simply actually glad!”
Elsewhere, world No 2 Nelly Korda sank an extended eagle putt on the 18th to shoot a 71 and end third on 9-under, whereas Corpuz’s problem pale with a final-round 74 to drop her right into a tie for fourth at eight below together with Thailand’s Atthaya Thitikul, Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela and South Koreans A Lim Kim and Amy Yang.
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