Jeeno Thitikul secured a come-from-behind victory to win the LPGA Shanghai title.
Thitikul surged again from 4 pictures down with 5 holes to play to pressure a playoff with Minami Katsu, earlier than producing one other extraordinary shot on the fifth playoff gap to turn into the primary two-time LPGA event winner of the season.
High-ranked Thitikul’s 63 was the spherical of the day and included seven birdies and an eagle. The Thai participant’s 24-under 264 closed what had seemed to be a cushty margin for in a single day chief Katsu of Japan, who had began the day two pictures forward and prolonged that to 4 after the thirteenth.
However the Thai participant reeled that in with birdies on the 14th, fifteenth and sixteenth, earlier than an unimaginable eagle with the ball bouncing alongside the mottled seventeenth inexperienced of Qizhong Backyard Golf Membership in Shanghai to attract stage.
Katsu (65) might solely reply with a birdie of her personal on the seventeenth, however had one other birdie probability on the ultimate gap to claw again the victory just for the ball to slip previous the outlet and carry them right into a playoff.
Thitikul charged again into rivalry on the ultimate day, getting back from 4 pictures down with 5 holes to play
Pars via the primary 4 playoff holes, rotated between the 18th and the tenth, included Katsu having two birdie putts to win solely to narrowly miss the outlet on each.
On the fifth playoff gap the impasse was damaged as a superb method by Thitikul positioned the ball three toes away, whereas Katsu’s second shot fell wanting the inexperienced on the par-4 18th.
Katsu’s chip for birdie was spectacular however missed, leaving Thitikul a easy birdie putt to shut out a exceptional victory practically two years after shedding in an epic nine-hole playoff to Celine Boutier on the LPGA Malaysia.
Minjee Lee, who gained her third main title on the Ladies’s PGA Championship in June, shot 68 on Sunday for a 19-under 269 as her problem pale via the center a part of the spherical for a third-place end.
Get the most effective costs and e-book a spherical at one in every of 1,700 programs throughout the UK & Eire
