Inbee Park (photo by Keith Allison via wikipedia commons)
The World’s Number-1 golfer, Inbee Park, made a 4-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole on Sunday to win the NW Arkansas Championship.
Park beat So Yeon Ryu in capping off her final-round rally in the LPGA Event.
The 24-year-old Park is a native of Seoul, South Korea. She attended UNLV and has 13 professional wins.
Inbee Park (photo by Keith Allison via wikipedia commons)
LPGA golfer Inbee Park doubled her lead to six strokes on the opening hole of the final round and ran away with the Kraft Nabisco Championship in Rancho Mirage, California.
The win was her second LPGA Tour major title.
Park closed with a 3-under 69 to finish at 15 under, four strokes ahead of So Yeon Ryu.
Ryu shot a 65, the best round of the tournament.
The 24-year-old South Korean, Park, has 9 professional wins.
Jessica Korda in July 2011 (photo by Wojciech Migda via wikipedia commons)
American teenager Jessica Korda, 18, the daughter of Petr Korda, the 1998 winner of the Men’s Australian Open in tennis, won the women’s golf version of the tournament in Melbourne, for her first LPGA title.
The younger Korda sanked a 25-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a six-player playoff.
Korda closed the tournament with a 1-over-par 74 to finish at 3-under-par 289 in the LPGA Tour’s 2012 opening event. It was also the first women’s first professional event at Royal Melbourne, the site of the 2011 President’s Cup.
The 6-player playoff which equalled the largest in LPGA history included Stacy Lewis, Brittany Lincicome, Julieta Granada, So Yeon Ryu and Hee Kyung Seo.
Info compiled from LPGA Tour
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21-year-old So Yeon Ryu won the U.S. Women’s Open on Monday, with a birdie on #18 that tied her with fellow Korean, Hee Kyung Seo, and then with fantastic approach shots in a three-hole playoff to beat Seo by three strokes.
The 5’6 golfer, who turned pro in 2007, now has 9 wins and certainly earned the Open title. She won the tournament on a 7,000-yard course that was battered by rain and thunderstorms everyday in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Patience and endurance was the key.
compiled from golf news reports
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