Carlota Ciganda claims first LPGA Tour title since 2016 at Meijer LPGA Traditional after dramatic closing spherical | Golf Information
Carlota Ciganda ended her nine-year await her third LPGA Tour title with a dramatic victory on the Meijer LPGA Traditional, as Lexi Thompson missed out on stopping her personal lengthy drought.
Ciganda began the day as a part of a six-way tie for the lead heading into the ultimate day at Blythefield Nation Membership, the place she recovered from an early bogey to birdie three of her final holes and high a congested leaderboard.
The Spaniard adopted a birdie on the par-three fifteenth by firing her method to a foot on the par-four seventeenth, earlier than holing from 4 toes on the par-five final to shut a five-under 67 and cap a powerful win.
Ciganda ended the week on 16 underneath and a shot away from taking part in associate Hye-Jin Choi, with the victory her first on the LPGA Tour because the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in November 2016.
“It feels superb clearly in any case these years,” Ciganda mentioned. “I knew I might do it, however clearly as soon as the years maintain going and also you begin getting older you begin doubting your self.
Ciganda can be chasing main victory on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship subsequent week, dwell on Sky Sports activities
“I believe this yr I’ve a fantastic group round me. New caddie which is doing a tremendous job, and I am simply very proud of my entire group. I simply consider we will do that and it has been a fantastic yr, however clearly profitable is a tremendous feeling.”
Choi completed with a 68 having cancelled out a penultimate-hole bogey with a birdie on the final, whereas Somi Lee was an extra stroke again in third forward of Thompson, Celine Boutier and Nanna Koerstz Madsen.
Thompson, who gained the final of her 11 LPGA Tour titles at this occasion in 2019 and now performs a part-time LPGA Tour schedule, additionally began the ultimate day tied for the lead earlier than coming unstuck alongside the closing stretch.
The 30-year-old missed an eight-foot putt for par on the sixteenth and made bogey from even nearer on the subsequent, leaving Thompson – who completed runner-up in final yr’s occasion – in a share of fourth.
Lexi Thompson blended 5 birdies with three bogeys in her closing spherical
England’s Bronte Regulation carded a final-round 68 to leap right into a share of seventh, as in a single day co-leaders Madelene Sagstrom and Sofia Garcia dropped into tied-14th after final-round 73s.
What’s subsequent?
The ladies’s main season continues with the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship, held at PGA Frisco, with protection dwell on Thursday from 4pm on Sky Sports activities Golf. Get Sky Sports activities or stream no contract on NOW.