Miyu Yamashita<\/a>, who shared the first-round lead with Coughlin, posted a two-over 74 for a one-under total of 287.<\/p>\nThe leading four were the only players to finish the week under par after days of swirling, gusting winds and high scores.<\/p>\n
“I just know I played really, really great all week,” said Coughlin, whose two prior titles came at the 2024 Canadian Women’s Open and Scottish Women’s Open.<\/p>\n
Ranked 32nd in the world coming into the week, the American is projected to rise to 12th in the rankings after the victory in a star-studded event that featured all of the top 20 ranked players.<\/p>\n
The tournament, co-sanctioned by the LPGA and the Ladies European Tour, is part of the Saudi-backed Global series and featured a total purse of $4 million (\u00a33m) with a $600,000 (\u00a3453,000) winner’s prize.<\/p>\n
More important to Coughlin, it gave her another chance to tackle Shadow Creek, where she finished runner-up in last year’s LPGA Match Play.<\/p>\n
“It definitely left a sour taste in my mouth last year, not getting the W given how well I played all week,” she said. “So it makes it extra special this week.”<\/p>\n
After sharing the first-round lead, Coughlin had led by five after the second round before Korda cut the gap on Saturday.<\/p>\n
But Korda said her game just wasn’t sharp enough on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“I just didn’t play good golf today,” the American said. “I was hitting it pretty poorly off the tee, and I was just finding myself in really tough positions going into the greens and then hitting it in places where I shouldn’t be around the greens.<\/p>\n
“This golf course is brutal, especially if you’re on the wrong side of the green.”<\/p>\n
Maguire, whose five birdies included one at the par-five 18th, said she enjoyed the challenge and liked what it showed about her game.<\/p>\n
“Any time you can shoot three rounds under par at Shadow Creek, you’re pretty happy,” she said. “I’ve always said it’s one of my favourite venues of the year.<\/p>\n
“I felt like my game had been a lot better lately than some of the scores I shot, and it was nice to see that sort of come to fruition this week on really the hardest course I played all year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Coughlin carded an even-par 72 on Sunday to complete a wire-to-wire victory in the Aramco Championship, capturing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517028","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=517028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}