Hannah Inexperienced offered some pleasure for Singapore followers Sunday as she made a 27-foot birdie putt on 18 to defeat Celine Boutier by one stroke and win the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Girls’s World Championship.
Inexperienced closed with three straight birdies, capped by her prolonged putt for her fourth profession LPGA Tour win.
Inexperienced was regular on the entrance 9 and made the flip at 2-under with a clear scorecard. A bogey on the par-4 tenth didn’t section her, as she obtained the stroke again on 12.
It in the end got here right down to the wire although.
“I prefer to make issues a bit fascinating and birdied the final three,” Inexperienced mentioned after her win. “Just a few years in the past, I nearly had this trophy in my hand and made two bogeys coming down the final. Nearly prefer it was meant to be at the moment for me, holing these two putts at the moment on the final two holes. I’m so completely happy to have this [trophy] in my palms.”
Inexperienced was nicely conscious that she was going to wish to play nicely down the stretch to come back out victorious in Singapore.
“I made a very good birdie on 16 and was capable of 2-putt there,” she mentioned. “That was good. I might see the leaderboard on 17 and made a putt there. I knew I wanted to a minimum of birdie the final to win by one. In order quickly as that putt went in, I used to be like, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve received.’”
If that putt didn’t drop, the event would have gone to a playoff. Neither Boutier nor Inexperienced have misplaced a playoff whereas on the LPGA Tour.
That is the sooner within the yr that Inexperienced has received on tour, however she doesn’t plan on switching something up.
“I don’t assume it’s going to change a lot to what I’ll play this yr. I nonetheless assume due to the Olympics and two swings to Europe that I’ll proceed with the schedule I put in place,” Inexperienced mentioned. “It’s good simply to have the flexibleness.”
The LPGA will head to China subsequent for the Blue Bay occasion, because the Asian swing has yet one more week till the women head to the West Coast.
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