Australian Hannah Inexperienced received the HSBC Girls’s World Championship for a second time after holding off fast-finishing American Auston Kim to assert a one-stroke victory.
Inexperienced, the 2019 Girls’s PGA Championship winner, closed with a 69 after an erratic again 9 – with three birdies and three bogeys – almost opened the door for Kim.
The 29-year-old tapped in for a bogey on the final and a 14-under four-round whole of 274 on the par-72 Sentosa Golf Membership which gave her one other title in Singapore after additionally successful there in 2024.
Kim had the equal-best spherical of the day with a 67 on the again of six birdies and an eagle, however bogeys on the second and particularly on the par-three fifteenth ended her cost at 13-under 275, and one shot behind a faltering Inexperienced.
Minjee Lee, who had been co-leader with Inexperienced coming into Sunday’s remaining spherical, combined three birdies with three bogeys for a irritating level-par remaining spherical of 72 and was tied for third with Angel Yin (71) and Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (68) of France at 11-under 277.
High-ranked Jeeno Thitikul, who received final week’s event in her native Thailand, shot 73 and was two-under 287 and tied for thirty first. She was one shot behind defending champion Lydia Ko, who had a 72.
England’s Charley Hull, Mimi Rhodes and Lottie Woad all completed in a tie for tenth on six underneath, with Hull going three underneath throughout the ultimate spherical.
The 72-player, no-cut event was the second of three stops on the LPGA’s early yr Asian swing, with the ultimate one subsequent week at Hainan Island, China.
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