Yuka Saso received the U.S. Ladies’s Open Sunday at Lancaster Nation Membership.
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On per week the place scores ballooned over par on the U.S. Ladies’s Open, it fittingly was received by one of many few gamers on Sunday who willed herself to a spherical within the 60s. Yuka Saso was the final one standing — her last spherical 68 adequate for a three-shot win and her second profession U.S. Ladies’s Open title.
Saso didn’t play good golf — good golf might not have been doable this week, given the tough setup at Lancaster Nation Membership. She four-putted on the sixth gap for a double bogey and practically repeated that on the seventeenth gap, three-putting for bogey on the closing stretch. However she was practically good each different step of the way in which, bagging 5 birdies within the course of and leaping three rivals who had begun the day sharing the lead.
Saso began the day three pictures again of Minjee Lee, Andrea Lee and Wichanee Meechai and hovered there as Minjee Lee birdied the first. However slowly every of the leaders erred on LCC’s entrance 9. Two bogeys and a double for Andrea Lee. Similar factor for Meechai. Three bogeys for Minjee. Saso stayed regular for the primary 11 holes after which rattled off 4 birdies in a 5-hole stretch to construct a 3 shot lead.
It was a type of 90-minute stretches that may occur throughout golf tournaments with tough setups, as one participant goes within the optimistic route and everybody else is pulled in the wrong way. The of entirety got here on the sixteenth gap, a par-4 moved as much as a drivable distance, when Saso hit the inexperienced in a single an two-putted for birdie. By the point she tapped in on 18 for a week-long tally of 4 below, she was three away from the sector — the one factor left unsure being who would possibly end in second.
Saso leapt onto the scene three years in the past when she received the 2021 U.S. Ladies’s Open at Olympic Membership at simply 19 years previous, the youngest winner within the historical past of the most important occasion in ladies’s golf. She hovered on the sting of greatness ever since, by no means successful however ending runner-up three completely different instances, as soon as on the 2023 Ladies’s PGA Championship.
Now, she turns into simply the fifteenth participant to win a number of U.S. Ladies’s Open titles, and certainly one of many youngest to perform the feat at simply 22 years previous. On account of her win, she’ll take dwelling a $2.4 million winner’s test, the most important prize within the ladies’s sport. She’ll additionally take a serious step towards qualifying for the Olympics, which shall be held later this summer time in Paris. The qualification interval wraps up in two weeks, leaving some room for shuffling, however Saso’s win pushes her nicely inside the protection mark.
