{"id":210677,"date":"2025-10-19T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210677\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:17:08","slug":"lpga-tour-sei-young-kim-claims-four-shot-victorty-a-bmw-ladies-championship-to-end-five-year-winless-run-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210677\/","title":{"rendered":"LPGA Tour: Sei Young Kim claims four-shot victorty a BMW Ladies Championship to end five-year winless run | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sei Young Kim ended a five-year winless run on the LPGA Tour with a four-shot victory at the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea. <\/p>\n<p>The former major champion took a four-shot lead into the final day at Pine Beach Golf Links, with Kim retaining control &#8211; on home soil &#8211; by mixing six birdies with a lone bogey during a final-round 67.<\/p>\n<p>Kim recovered from an early bogey at the par-three third to register four birdies in a five-hole stretch from the fifth, seeing her turn in 33, then extended her advantage with back-to-back gains from the 14th.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/skysports-sei-young-kim-lpga-tour_7055106.jpg\"   alt=\"Sei Young Kim of South Korea \" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Kim carded rounds of 62, 66, 69 and 67 to complete victory<\/p>\n<p>A three-par finish kept Kim on 24 under and comfortably ahead of closest challenger Nasa Hataoka, who matched her five-under 67, while A Lim Kim ended six strokes back in tied-third alongside Celine Boutier.<\/p>\n<p>Victory is Kim&#8217;s 13th on the LPGA Tour since joining in 2015 but first since winning the inaugural edition of The Annika, formerly known as the Pelican Women&#8217;s Championship, in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hataoka birdied four of her last five holes &#8211; including each of the last three &#8211; to reduce Kim&#8217;s winning margin, with Kim and Boutier&#8217;s final rounds both bogey-free to lift them into tied-third.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pretty happy with the result,&#8221; Boutier said. &#8220;I feel like I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect coming into the week but very happy to have contended a little bit and give myself a few chances out there, even when it was really windy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Hannah Green also produced a three-birdie finish to close a six-under 66 and jump into tied-fifth with Yealimi Noh, who started the day in second but slipped back with a final-round 70.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Korean pair Hye-Jin Choi and Narin An fired round-of-the-day 63s to grab a share of seventh with American Lindy Duncan, with Minjee Lee and Denmark&#8217;s Nanna Koerstz Madsen among the group ending tied-10th.<\/p>\n<p>A four-under 68 saw Scotland&#8217;s Gemma Dryburgh finish in tied-19th, while Lottie Woad moved inside the top 25 after posing seven birdies in her six-under 66.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? <\/p>\n<p>The LPGA Tour stays in South Korea for the Hanwha Lifeplus International Crown, a team event where Thailand are the defending champions. 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