{"id":800552,"date":"2026-08-03T05:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800552\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:10:22","slug":"after-surrendering-big-lead-yealimi-noh-stinging-but-grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800552\/","title":{"rendered":"After surrendering big lead, Yealimi Noh stinging but grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was only a couple weeks ago that Yealimi Noh was struggling to find motivation.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Noh burst onto the scene by finishing third at the 2021 Evian Championship and later that year going 2-1 in her Solheim Cup debut. But she\u2019d added just one top-10 in 22 major appearances since, while missing 14 of those cuts.<\/p>\n

Before taking a three-shot lead through 54 holes<\/a> of this week\u2019s AIG Women\u2019s Open at Royal Lytham, Noh had gone 15 straight tournaments without a top-10 finish and missed six of her last 10 cuts, including two in a row in majors, the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA and Evian.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t feeling the want to play golf,\u201d said Noh, who before teeing off Sunday told herself, \u201cNo matter what happens, I\u2019m just really happy to be in this position again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noh \u2013 who much to the delight of fans holds the end of her broomstick putter several inches from her chest \u2013 drained a lengthy par save at the first hole, then birdied the second hole from the fescue to increase her lead to four.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Noh, that advantage wouldn\u2019t last. She bogeyed Nos. 4, 7 and 8 \u2013 the latter bogey came after she missed the green long on the par-4, then chipped through the green and into a pot bunker \u2013 as her lead shrunk to only one.<\/p>\n

When Noh parred the 11th hole, it meant she\u2019d failed to birdie any of the three par-5s after birdieing at least two in each of the first three rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot being able to make any birdies on the par-5s today was tough,\u201d Noh said. \u201cDefinitely lost a lot a lot of momentum there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noh\u2019s bogey at the par-3 12th dropped her a shot behind eventual winner Shiho Kuwaki.<\/a> And, after negating her birdie at No. 13 with another bogey at No. 14, Noh would end up a shot out of the playoff with a closing 3-over 74.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter how many times I tell myself to stay calm and keep good tempo, it\u2019s just never easy,\u201d said Noh who finished with five bogeys in the final round. \u201cBut I think the more I\u2019m in this position, I\u2019ll get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

An emotional Noh appreciated the moment coming down the 72nd hole still in contention despite her disappointment. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was pretty incredible,\u201d Noh said, while adding, \u201cI will be taking away a lot more than I thought I would be this week. It stings just being one short, but very happy with the week. \u2026 This week has really helped me feel so much better about my game and realize why I\u2019m doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"AIG<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the $10 million purse was paid out in the final major of the season, the AIG Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was only a couple weeks ago that Yealimi Noh was struggling to find motivation. The 25-year-old Noh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-800552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}