MAINEVILLE, Ohio — Charley Hull took benefit of top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul’s final-hole placing meltdown Sunday to win the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship.
Thitikul — a stroke forward after Hull bogeyed the par-4 seventeenth — four-putted the par-5 18th from about 50 toes, lacking a 5-footer and a 3-foot comebacker. Hull two-putted from about 30 toes, making a 2-footer for the victory.
“I wasn’t actually watching her putt for birdie as a result of I believed she was going to gap it,” Hull stated. “Then, yeah, I suppose it isn’t over till the fats woman sings, however I used to be shaking over that final putt as a result of I simply did not count on it.”
Hull closed with a 4-under 68 to complete at 20-under 268 at TPC River’s Bend. The 29-year-old English participant received her third LPGA Tour title and first since 2022. She additionally has 4 victories on the Girls European Tour.
Thitikul matched Hull with a 68. The Thai star — the winner in Could at Liberty Nationwide in New Jersey, missed an opportunity to grow to be the primary a number of winner on the tour this season.
Lottie Woad of England was third at 18 below after a 66.
Miyu Yamashita (69) was 17 below, and second-ranked Nelly Korda (70) adopted at 15 below with Nasa Hataoka (65), Chisato Iwai (71), Sei Younger Kim (69), Jennifer Kupcho (67), Mary Liu (70) and Maja Stark (69).
Hull was coming off a runner-up end in Houston final week as a part of the Aramco sequence on the European tour.
