Porter fired a final-round 66 and Lee a 67 to both end their weekends 10 under the card, while compatriot Robyn Choi’s 71 left her one shot adrift in equal 12th.<\/p>\n
But they couldn’t catch South Korean Hyo Joo Kim, who held off Nelly Korda at Sharon Heights to complete a wire-to-wire victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Her opening five-stroke advantage gone after 10 holes, Kim regained the lead on the next hole and ended up with a one-shot margin after a closing bogey.<\/p>\n
Kim shot a one-over 73 for a 16-under 272 total. The 30-year-old also won the 2015 event in Phoenix and now has eight LPGA Tour titles to go along with 14 KLPGA Tour victories.<\/p>\n
“I enjoyed every single day, but this course was pretty tough,” Kim said through a translator.<\/p>\n
American Korda (69), who won the season opener in Florida and then skipped the Asia swing, matched Kim with a bogey on No.2, then birdied six of the next eight to tie for the lead.<\/p>\n
Kim went ahead again with a birdie on the par-4 11th, traded bogeys with Korda on the par-4 12th and took a two-stroke lead with a birdie on the par-4 14th.<\/p>\n
World No.8 Kim gave back the stroke with a bogey on the par-4 16th, then saved par after hitting long on the par-3 17th. Korda three-putted for bogey on 17, missing a three-footer, to send Kim to 18 with the two-shot advantage that she ended up needing.<\/p>\n
Kim won for the first time in a year since the Ford Championship in Phoenix, the event that begins Thursday at Whirlwind Golf Club.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, something like 17 stings, so it is what it is,” Korda said.<\/p>\n
“It’s golf. It’s a quick turnaround. There is next week. So, just going to take all the positives.”<\/p>\n
South Korean duo Sei Young Kim (67) and Jin Hee Im (69) finished joint third at 11 under, while Thailand’s top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul (73) tied for 14th at eight under.<\/p>\n
With AAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Porter fired a final-round 66 and Lee a 67 to both end their weekends 10 under the card,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-558328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}