IVINS, Utah — Haeran Ryu made an 8-foot eagle putt throughout a flawless again 9 that allowed her to tug away Sunday with an 8-under 64, giving her a five-shot victory on the inaugural Black Desert Championship within the LPGA Tour’s return to Utah after a 61-year absence.
Ryu turned the second participant to go wire-to-wire on the LPGA Tour this yr, and it was her second time profitable a brand new occasion. She gained the FM Championship on the TPC Boston final yr.
She was coming off a tough end on the Chevron Championship final week, sharing the 54-hole lead on the first main of the yr till closing with a 76.
This one was nearer than the five-shot margin indicated. Ryu was clinging to a one-shot lead over Esther Henseleit of Germany going to the again 9. She missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the tenth — her third straight miss from brief vary for birdie.
However then she made a 15-foot birdie putt on the eleventh, and her eagle on the thirteenth put her forward by 4 pictures.
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“Unimaginable day,” stated Ryu, who now has gained in every of the final seven years courting to her first win as an 18-year-old on the Korea LPGA.
Henseleit, who began three pictures behind, went out in 31 to get inside one shot. She cooled on the again 9, not making one other birdie till the 18th gap for a 66. She tied for second with Ruoning Yin (67), the ultimate problem to Ryu.
“Began out nice on the entrance 9 after which could not fairly sustain on the again,” Henseleit stated. “Haeran performed wonderful and he or she actually deserved to win it immediately.”
Yin, who received again into the combo with a 62 on Saturday, was 4 pictures behind on the flip. She ran off 4 straight birdies beginning on the eleventh, all of them inside 8 toes. The final one received her to inside three pictures of Ryu.
The South Korean responded with an method into 3 toes on the fifteenth for a birdie to revive her result in 4 pictures, and Yin fell again with a double bogey from the bunker on the sixteenth.
“I play 70 good holes,” Yin stated. “I made a triple on the primary day after which a double on 16 immediately. However total, I feel my sport is absolutely stable.”
Yan Liu closed with a 65 to complete alone in fourth.
Stephanie Kyriacou of Australia completed with the shot of the day, a fairway steel on the par-5 18th that rolled in for an albatross, giving her a 67 to tie for sixth.
Ryu is the tenth winner in 10 tournaments on the LPGA Tour this season.
