MIDLAND, Mich. \u2014 Gina Kim and Yana Wilson teamed to win the Dow Championship on Sunday for their first LPGA Tour titles, closing with an 8-under 62 in best-ball play for a two-stroke victory over Hyo Joo Kim and Hye-Jin Choi.<\/p>\n
Gina Kim and Wilson finished at 17-under 263 at Midland Country Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been in a leading position for a long time,\u201d the 19-year-old Wilson said. \u201cEven as a team, I feel like both of us haven\u2019t been in this leading position. We walked down 18 just now and we were like: \u2018Does this feel weird to you? Like this is so weird.\u2019 So it\u2019s a little nervy out there. I feel like we handled it really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gina Kim holed out from the fairway for eagle on the par-4 fifth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew I hit a really good shot and I was thinking, \u2018Oh, OK, maybe I\u2019ll tap in for birdie.\u2019 And then it just disappeared,\u201d she said. \u201cI think that really set the tone for the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old Gina Kim won in her 64th start on the LPGA Tour, while Wilson was making the ninth start of her rookie season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been the most fun week,\u201d Gina Kim said. \u201cIt\u2019s been tough, and it\u2019s nice to have a really good friend to be able to do this by.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year, Wilson \u2014 the 2022 USGA Girls’ Junior winner \u2014 was second and Gina Kim third on the Epson Tour money list to earn LPGA cards.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of the reason I asked Yana to be my partner is we actually played in the final group on Epson and we\u2019ve played together numerous times,\u201d Gina Kim said. \u201cSo, I knew she was really, really good under pressure and I trusted her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hyo Joo Kim and Choi finished with a 65.<\/p>\n
Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im had a 61 to tie for third at 14 under with former UCLA teammates Alison Lee and Lilia Vu (64).<\/p>\n
Juli Inkster, who at 66 became the oldest player in LPGA history to make the cut in an official event, teamed with Angel Yin to tie for 12th at 9 under. They shot 64.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had an amazing time,\u201d Inkster said. \u201cAngel played amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nelly Korda and Olivia Cowan tied for 17th at 8 under. They rebounded from a third-round 76 with a 66. Korda was coming off a victory in the U.S. Women’s Open for her second straight major victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDLAND, Mich. \u2014 Gina Kim and Yana Wilson teamed to win the Dow Championship on Sunday for their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-737199","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\/737199","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=737199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}