JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand turned again a pair of challenges Sunday and performed bogey-free over the ultimate 27 holes at Liberty Nationwide, closing with a 3-under 69 for a four-shot victory over Celine Boutier within the Mizuho Americas Open.
Thitikul, who captured the Race to CME Globe and its $4 million prize to finish final season, gained for the primary time this 12 months and the fifth time in her LPGA Tour profession.
Nelly Korda continues to be attempting to win for the primary time this 12 months. She was inside one shot of Thitikul till driving into the hazard on the par-4 ninth gap and taking bogey. It was a downward spiral from there, as Korda performed the again 9 with two bogeys and no birdies and was by no means an element the remainder of the best way.
The ultimate problem got here from Boutier, who was posed to catch the Thai participant on the fifteenth gap when she hit her method to 10 toes. Thitikul confronted a tricky par save from a bunker left of the inexperienced, along with her foot up in opposition to the slope and having to clear one other bunker to a again pin.
Thitikul pulled off the shot completely to three toes to avoid wasting par. Boutier not solely missed her birdie probability, she missed the 30-inch comeback putt and made bogey. As a substitute of a two-shot swing and a tie for the lead, Boutier fell three again with three holes to play.
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On the sixteenth, Boutier missed an 8-foot birdie putt and Thitikul made her par putt from 7 toes to remain three photographs behind. Thitikul all however ended the event with a 10-foot birdie putt on the seventeenth gap, and she or he capped off a clear par with a par save on the 18th.
“I do know that a whole lot of putts did not drop on the entrance 9, however I am attempting to do my greatest,” Thitikul stated. “I used to be simply attempting to inform myself, ‘Be affected person, it is coming, it is coming.’ That is just about what I advised myself immediately.”
Thitikul completed at 17-under 271 and gained $450,000, pushing her over $1 million for the 12 months and reclaiming the lead within the Race to CME Globe.
Boutier shot 72 to complete second, adopted by Carlota Ciganda (70) and Andrea Lee (72).
Thitikul did not make many putts on the entrance 9, however similar to the again 9 on Saturday, she stayed in entrance by not making any bogeys. She made birdie on the opening gap, and her greatest work was a 6-iron to a again pin, utilizing the slope to feed the ball down to five toes.
It was one in every of solely two birdies for the spherical. That is the place Korda fell again. The No. 1 participant in ladies’s golf made three birdies on the entrance 9, the final one on the par-5 eighth gap, to get inside one shot. That was the final birdie for Korda the remainder of the spherical. She closed with a 73 to tie for fifth.
The event, hosted by Michelle Wie West, pairs American Junior Golf Affiliation gamers with the LPGA professionals. Aphrodite Deng, who lives about 20 minutes away, gained the AJGA division that used the modified Stableford scoring.
