LPGA Tour: Mi-Hyang Lee wins first Tour title in over eight years at LPGA Blue Bay regardless of two double bogeys

Mi-Hyang Lee rallied from two front-nine double bogeys to clinch the Blue Bay LPGA by one stroke on Sunday and win her first Tour title win in over eight years.

The South Korean carded a final-round 73 to complete on 11 below, one shot forward of China’s Zhang Weiwei at Jian Lake Blue Bay.

It was Lee’s first LPGA Tour title because the Girls’s Scottish Open in 2017 the place she putted a birdie on the ultimate gap to seal a one-shot win.

Lee’s three-shot lead coming into Sunday’s closing spherical evaporated on a tumultuous entrance 9 with double bogeys on the par-four fifth and ninth which noticed the South Korean give up the result in Zhang.

However after the flip Lee discovered her rhythm and made birdies on the tenth and thirteenth to keep up a correspondence with the Chinese language participant, earlier than Zhang’s bogey on the seventeenth opened the door for Lee, who made birdie on the 18th to grab again the win.

Auston Kim stayed in competition for a LPGA title for the second consecutive week – after the American’s second positioned end on the HSBC Girls’s World Championship in Singapore – and completed tied for third place with Aditi Ashok of India.

Defending champion Rio Takeda of Japan was an additional shot again in a four-way tie for fifth with Hye-Jin Choi, Yu Liu of and A Lim Kim.

Blue Bay LPGA was the third straight LPGA occasion on its first Asia swing of the season.

Per week after 9 of the highest 10 on this planet performed in Singapore, the China subject had solely one of many high 10 – Ruoning Yin of China, a former Girls’s PGA champion who shot 76 and completed on one over in a tie for twenty fourth.