{"id":226958,"date":"2025-10-20T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226958\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:25:08","slug":"sei-young-kim-celebrates-wire-to-wire-victory-at-the-bmw-ladies-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226958\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei Young Kim celebrates wire-to-wire victory at the BMW Ladies Championship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>+++ Sei Young Kim from South Korea secures home victory at the BMW<br \/>\n  Ladies Championship +++ First title for the 32-year-old major champion<br \/>\n  in five years +++ Lucy Li (USA) wins all-electric BMW i7 eDrive50 with<br \/>\n  a hole-in-one +++ 66,000 fans attend tournament week at Pine Beach<br \/>\n  Golf Links +++<\/p>\n<p>Gwangju\/Munich<br \/>\n  . It was a final to delight the 30,000 spectators who<br \/>\n  came to Pine Beach Golf Links on Sunday as local hero Sei Young Kim<br \/>\n  (264 strokes, -24) won the BMW Ladies Championship 2025 convincingly<br \/>\n  with a four-stroke lead over Japan\u2019s Nasa Hataoka. This marked the<br \/>\n  first victory by a South Korean player at the only LPGA Tour event in<br \/>\n  South Korea since Jin Young Ko\u2019s triumph in 2021. Kim started the<br \/>\n  tournament with an impressive opening round (62 strokes, -10) and<br \/>\n  never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>For the 32-year-old, this was her 13th title on the LPGA Tour and her<br \/>\n  first since winning the Women\u2019s PGA Championship in 2020. Behind Kim<br \/>\n  and Hataoka, Celine Boutier from France and South Korea\u2019s A Lim Kim<br \/>\n  (both -18) shared third place, while defending champion Hannah Green<br \/>\n  (AUS) and Yealimi Noh (USA, both -17) tied for fifth.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the BMW Ladies Championship, which was attended by a<br \/>\n  total of 66,000 golf fans, came in the first round when Lucy Li scored<br \/>\n  a hole-in-one on the 13th hole (Par 3). For the spectacular shot from<br \/>\n  a distance of 155 yards using a 7-iron, the American was rewarded with<br \/>\n  an all-electric BMW i7 eDrive50. Li is the fourth player to earn a<br \/>\n  Hole-in-One Award at the BMW Ladies Championship, following Kristen<br \/>\n  Gillman (USA, 2019), Na Yeon Choi (KOR, 2022), and Ariya Jutanugarn<br \/>\n  (THA, 2022).<\/p>\n<p>Next year, the BMW Ladies Championship will once again be held at<br \/>\n  Pine Beach Golf Links near Gwangju in the southwest of the country. To<br \/>\n  showcase the world-class golfers to fans nationwide, the tournament,<br \/>\n  organised by BMW Korea since 2019, regularly changes its venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"+++ Sei Young Kim from South Korea secures home victory at the BMW Ladies Championship +++ First title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[102716,49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-226958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-bmw-ladies-championship","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}