LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Hannah Green won the JM Eagle LA Championship on Sunday for the third time in first four years and the first at El Caballero, holing a 12-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole after a back-nine comeback.<\/p>\n
Six strokes behind playing partner Sei Young Kim for a few moments on the 11th green, Green closed with a 4-under 68 to match Kim (70) and Jin Hee Im (67) at 17-under 271 on the tree-lined layout.<\/p>\n
In the playoff on the par-4 18th, Green hit a wedge from 130 yards and curled in the right-to-left breaking putt after Kim \u2014 eight strokes ahead with five holes to go Saturday in the third round \u2014 left a 35-foot birdie try short.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had that putt, obviously very similar line in regulation, so I felt somewhat comfortable,\u201d Green said. \u201cIt still was a tough putt, so really glad it went in the hole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Im \u2014 penalized a stroke for slow play Saturday \u2014 reached the green in three after hitting her drive to the right.<\/p>\n
Green also won the event in 2023 and 2024 at Wilshire Country Club. The 29-year-old Australian player joined Hyo Joo Kim as the only two-time winners this season on the LPGA Tour and ran her worldwide 2026 victory total to four.<\/p>\n
Green has eight career LPGA Tour victories. She won the tour’s HSBC Women\u2019s World Championship in Singapore early last month and also took the Women\u2019s Australian Open and Australian WPGA.<\/p>\n
Sei Young Kim took a two-stroke lead into the round and had a three-shot edge on the back nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust little disappointed because I had a good chance for the win,\u201d she said. “Yeah, but she\u2019s play well. Strong finish back nine.<\/p>\n
The tournament was played at El Caballero for the second straight year because of course renovations at Wilshire. <\/p>\n
After Sei Young Kim chipped in for eagle on the 11th to leave Green six shots back, Green followed with a birdie on the hole to get a shot back.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly didn\u2019t think I was in the tournament still,\u201d Green said. \u201cI was just like, `Oh, well just go for as many pins as possible.\u2032\u201d<\/p>\n
She birdied Nos. 13-16 \u2014 missing a 5-foot eagle putt on 16 \u2014 and pulled even with Sei Young Kim and Im \u2014 who made a 60-footer for eagle on 16 \u2014 when Sei Young Kim bogeyed the par-3 17th. <\/p>\n
\u201cGot on a nice stretch there,\u201d Green said. “I kind of thought the putt that I missed on 16 was the crucial moment. I mean, I\u2019m just fortunate enough that I at least got into the playoff.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chevron Championship, the first women\u2019s major of the year, will start Thursday in Houston.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be really hard to come back down to earth next week, so it\u2019s going to be my next challenge,\u201d Green said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be on a flight tonight to Houston, so I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m getting much rest.”<\/p>\n
Ina Yoon was a stroke out of the playoff after a 69. She eagled the 16th, birdied the 17th and nearly holed a 30-foot birdie try on 18,<\/p>\n
Former UCLA star Patty Tavatanakit (70) was 14 under with Haeran Ryu (66). First-round leader Chizzy Iwai (70) was 12 under with Minami Katsu (68).<\/p>\n
Amateur Asterisk Talley tied for 13th at 9 under after a 70. The 17-year-old Talley played her first event since losing the lead on the back nine in the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great just to get to play with the pros and get some learning experience,\u201d said Talley, also in the field for The Chevron.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Hannah Green won the JM Eagle LA Championship on Sunday for the third time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-615935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615935","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=615935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}