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Amy Yang wins the Honda LPGA Thailand

February 25, 2019

Amy Yang claimed her 3rd LPGA Thailand title after beating MInjee Lee by 1 shot. Yang  who also won the tournamnet in 2015 and 2017  got better throughout the week and fired a closing round 65 to hold of a charging Carlota Ciganda and Minjee Lee. 

Nelly makes it 2 LPGA wins!

February 18, 2019

Nelly Korda has won the ISPS Australian Women's Open and claim her 2nd LPGA victory.

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Heading into the final round Nelly had a 3 shot lead over Haru Nomura from Japan. Korda, had her third consecutive birdie on the 12th to help claim a two-stroke victory with a 5-under 67 finishing on a 17-under total of 271.

After an opening round 71, Korda then fired 3 rounds in the 60's to claim victory.

Celine Boutier claims maiden LPGA victory

February 11, 2019

Celine Boutier of France finally delivered on her potential on the LPGA to win the ISPS Vic Open in Australia. Already a winner on the LET (in Australia last year)  Boutier is this years first time winner on the LPGA after winning by 2 shots. 

Eun-Hee Ji Wins Season opener on the LPGA.

January 21, 2019

On the final day after a bogey on the first hole it was Eun-Hee Ji who kept her nerve and rolled in 3 birdies on the back 9  while the others faltered in the wind. 

Ariya cleans up!

November 18, 2018

Jutanugarn took the other two big prizes that were up for grabs this week, clinching the yearlong Race to the CME Globe prize - and the $1 million bonus that comes with that - as well as the Vare Trophy for winning the season's scoring title. The world No. 1 already had wrapped up player of the year honors, and finished 2018 with a 69.415 scoring average to edge Minjee Lee (69.747) for the top spot there.

Lexi wins Tour Championship

November 18, 2018

 Lexi Thompson dispelled the demons and Ariya Jutanugarn pocketed a cool $1 million on Sunday as both left the CME Group Tour Championship a lot richer in very different ways.  

Thompson’s four-stroke victory over Nelly Korda at Tiburón Golf Club ended an arduous journey for her that began in 2017 while Jutanugarn completed a sweep of all the top 2018 LPGA awards, firmly establishing herself as the best in the women’s game. In every sense of the word, they both left Naples, Fla., as winners.

Lopez claims first win

November 10, 2018

  • Lopez joins the legendary Lorena Ochoa as the only LPGA winners from Mexico; Ochoa last won at the 2009 Navistar LPGA Classic before retiring in April 2010 with 27 LPGA Tour victories

HATAOKA ROCKETS TO VICTORY AT TOTO JAPAN CLASSIC

November 04, 2018

The burden of expectation is a massive weight to lug around a golf course, especially when it’s magnified by the hopeful cheers of thousands of adoring home-country fans. On Sunday, Nasa Hataoka was more than a match for that pressure, closing with a 67, capped by a birdie on the final hole, to win the TOTO Japan Classic by two strokes, adding to an LPGA storyline in which globetrotting stars have risen to the occasion on home soil in 2018.

NELLY KORDA WINS SWINGING SKIRTS LPGA TAIWAN FOR FIRST LPGA TITLE

October 27, 2018

Nelly Korda shot a 4-under 68 to win the Taiwan Championship on Sunday for her first LPGA tour title.

Korda — the younger sister of Jessica Korda, who has won five titles on the LPGA tour — had an eagle on the par-5 sixth hole and added two more birdies at the Ta Shee Golf and Country Club to finish at 13-under 275. She was two strokes ahead of Minjee Lee, who shot a bogey-free 66.

Angela Stanford became a major tournament champion Sunday

September 15, 2018

In her 18th year on tour, after a wild and tearful final few holes, Angela Stanford became a major tournament champion Sunday.

It was a long journey to an unlikely one-shot victory at the Evian Championship for a player who believed as a rookie in 2001 that major titles would come sooner than her 40th birthday — and probably not in France.

"I would have laughed, 'No way, it's going to happen before'," said Stanford, whose runner-up finish at the 2003 U.S. Women's Open was the first of 13 top-10s in majors without a win.

HENDERSON REWRITES HISTORY WITH WIN IN CANADA

August 26, 2018

If Brooke Henderson were a baseball pitcher it would be the fastball all the time. If she played pro basketball she’d be firing up the 3-point shots like Steph Curry or Diana Taurasi. But she plays golf and that means take the driver and rip it. Brooke the Basher simply overpowered Wascana Country Club in Regina, Saskatchewan, to take the CP Women’s Open by four strokes over teenager Angel Yin on Sunday.

Park Captures Third Win of 2018

August 19, 2018

Sung Hyun Park fired a final round 4-under par, 68 to share the lead with Lizette Salas at 23-under to end regulation on Sunday. The two headed to No. 18 for a sudden death playoff.  It took only one hole for the Republic of Korea native to defeat Salas and earn her third victory of the season at the Indy Women in Tech Championship Driven by Group 1001. 

Jutanugarn Captures Third Win of 2018

July 28, 2018

Ariya Jutanugarn cemented her place at the top of the women’s game with her third victory of the season at the Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open on Sunday. The Thai fired a final round 5-uner par, 66 to win at 13-under par, one-stroke ahead of Minjee Lee.

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