Yubol, who was penalised one shot in the second round on Saturday for going over her maximum time, birdied the last two holes for a 66 – just shy of Boutier’s nine-under winning total for the 54-hole tournament.<\/p>\n
Soo Bin Joo, the 22-year-old South Korean going for her first LPGA Tour title, lost her overnight four-shot lead at the turn, as she stumbled to a 73 and share of fourth place.<\/p>\n
Boutier finished the front nine with two-straight birdies to reach 7-under, and that gave her a share of the lead when Joo made bogey on the par-4 eighth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Boutier then hit her approach to 4 feet for birdie on the 10th. Joo caught her with a birdie on the ninth, but couldn’t keep up the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Cassie Porter was the leading Australian, wrapping up a good week with a closing 67 to tie for ninth at four-under. Robyn Choi (72) was tied 51st, with Steph Kyriacou (73) tied 58th and Gabriela Ruffels (76) tied 68th.<\/p>\n
Boutier also won the tournament in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“To have a chance to win today is definitely something very special,” said 32-year-old Boutier. “I think it’s a great tournament, very special for me, so really excited to be able to have another win here.”<\/p>\n
Boutier now has seven career LPGA titles and 12 worldwide. She had struggled to start this year, with a tie for ninth her best finish among 10 tournaments.<\/p>\n
“I feel like my game has turned around the last few weeks,” she said. “I could see it coming together, and I definitely did not expect it to come together this week and today.”<\/p>\n
Yubol notched her second runner-up finish of the year, having finished four shots behind Nelly Korda in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s Lauren Walsh (67) finished third at seven-under.<\/p>\n
Joo took her tough last day philosophically.<\/p>\n
“It was so fun. It was my first time leading the tournament, and I think I did my best out there as much as I can and I prepared well and I’m very proud of myself,” Joo said.<\/p>\n
“I was trying to do my best to stay mentally calm, and I think I still have to work on that a little more.”<\/p>\n
The ShopRite LPGA is one of two 54-hole events on the schedule, and the field was particularly weak this year – one player from the top 10 – because of timing. The U.S Women’s Open is next week across the country in Los Angeles, held at Riviera for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yubol, who was penalised one shot in the second round on Saturday for going over her maximum time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-707380","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\/707380","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=707380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}