Lilia Vu claimed her first LPGA Excursion victory of the season then defeating Lexi Thompson and Grace Kim in a play-off on the Meijer LPGA Vintage.
Vu overturned an eight-shot lack right through an exciting last time at Blythefield Nation Membership, carding a bogey-free 65 to complete on 16 beneath along Kim – who squandered a five-shot in a single day manage – and Thompson.
The trio all birdied the par-five 18th in each the primary two remaining play-off holes, earlier than Vu carded a profitable birdie on the 3rd remaining play-off hollow – as Thompson and Kim may just best construct par – to assert her 5th LPGA Excursion name and primary of the yr.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” Vu mentioned. “I couldn’t believe I won this week. I think I was setting my bar really low so that I could meet it. I think because I tend to get in my own way when I’m trying to win, that’s when I don’t win most of the time, so just trying to stay in my lane, take advantage of all the good shots, and make all the birdie putts that I get.”
Vu’s comeback was once one shot better than terminating day’s seven-shot lack overturned by means of Linnea Strom of Sweden on the ShopRite LPGA Vintage, with 4 birdies over the overall six holes serving to her submit the low around of the time.
Thompson birdied the 18th to card a four-under 68 and tied Vu, presen Kim made one birdie and 8 pars right through the again 9 of her final-round 73 and did not secure directly to her sizeable in a single day benefit.
Vu gained 4 occasions in 2023 and can be some of the favourites for the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship, continue to exist Sky Sports activities, having neglected terminating age’s US Girls’s Perceptible presen combating a again trauma.
“It’s hard to feel 100 per cent, but I think I’ve been 95 per cent and I think, obviously, I played more than 18 holes today, so kind of feeling a little tight,” Vu mentioned. “It’s all good. It’s not the same as before.”
Thompson, the 11-time LPGA Excursion winner who introduced terminating age that she is going to renounce from full-time pageant on the finish of the season, got here up simply scale down of finishing her five-year name drought.
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“Knowing I was five shots behind starting the day, I knew I had to have the pedal down and make a lot of birdies from the jump,” Thompson mentioned. “I can only control what I can control, so I just tried to focus one shot at a time and play within myself and my emotions. That’s all I could do. Whatever happens with the result happened, so happy with the result.”
Best friend Ewing had a fable of 4 instantly birdies on her entrance 9 and in short touched 17 beneath for the match, however a bogey-bogey-birdie end left her in fourth spot. Allisen Corpuz and South Korea’s Narin An each carded final-round 70s to percentage 5th.
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