MAINEVILLE, Ohio — Lydia Ko prolonged her wonderful summer season run when she turned a two-shot deficit right into a rout by closing with a 9-under 63 to win the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship for her third LPGA Tour title of the season.
Ko received for the third time in her final 4 begins, which incorporates her Olympic gold medal that gave the 27-year-old from New Zealand sufficient factors for the LPGA Corridor of Fame.
It additionally contains one other main within the AIG Ladies’s Open, this one at St. Andrews.
“It’s been fairly surreal,” Ko mentioned after her five-shot victory on the TPC River’s Bend over Jeeno Thitikul, who closed with a 70 and easily couldn’t sustain.
Thitikul was two pictures forward after eight holes of the ultimate spherical. Three holes later, the Thai was chasing the most popular participant in girls’s golf.
Thitikul made bogey on the par-4 ninth. Ko made a 10-foot birdie putt on the tenth gap to tie for the lead, after which pulled forward by two pictures with a 12-foot eagle putt on the par-5 eleventh.
Ko seized management for good with a pair of two-shot swings — she made birdie and Thitikul made bogey on the thirteenth and fifteenth holes.
