FINAL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\nWang, 26, carded a two-under 70 in the final round to finish on 20-under-par and claim the $615,000 championship cheque.<\/p>\n
She trailed Thitikul by one shot when she stepped to the 17th tee, but Thitikul bogeyed the par-four 17th in the group ahead of her.<\/p>\n
Wang proceeded to sink a sliding five-foot birdie putt to reclaim the lead. Then the 2019 Duke graduate tapped in a two-foot putt for par at No 18 to become the 23rd champion in as many LPGA events this season. She was feted with a champagne shower on the 18th green.<\/p>\n
“It’s a dream come true,” Wang said. “Winning LPGA has been my dream since actually since day one of my golf. I started playing golf because when I was eight years old I was watching LPGA tournament on TV. I was like, ‘oh, that’s I want to do and I want to be on this tour. I want to win out there’.<\/p>\n
“So I finally did this. Very proud of myself.”<\/p>\n
Wang had to work hard Sunday because Thitikul, who started the day four shots behind, was hot from the start. She birdied the first hole to trigger a five-under 31 on the front nine as she drilled irons within tap-in range at Nos 5 and 9.<\/p>\n
Thitikul made the turn at 19-under while Wang posted three birdies and one bogey to make the turn at 20-under. Wang then strung together five pars before bogeying No 15. Meanwhile, Thitikul birdied the 12th to jump into the lead.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Thitikul, who overtook Nelly Korda in early August for theworld No 1 spot, kept the lead until bogeying No 17. She finished with a 67.<\/p>\n
South Korea’s Sei Young Kim, who played in the final pairing with Wang, fashioned a two-under 70 to finish three shots behind Wang. Andrea Lee also posted a final-round 70 to finish fourth, four shots behind the champion.<\/p>\n
South Korea’s Jin Hee Im started the day in a tie for 37th place, but she soared all the way to fifth on the strength of a record-tying 10-under 62. She birdied nine of the first 12 holes to climb to 14-under, but posted five straight pars before closing with her 10th birdie of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Miranda Wang of China rolled in a birdie on the 17th hole to snap a tie with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-108091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}