Sweden’s Maja Stark wins U.S. Ladies’s Open for first main championship

ERIN, Wis. — Maja Stark continued the regular play she had demonstrated all week to win the U.S. Ladies’s Open and declare her first main championship Sunday at Erin Hills.

Stark carded a closing spherical 72 and completed with a four-round whole of 7-under 281 to beat top-ranked Nelly Korda and Japan’s Rio Takeda by two strokes.

Stark acquired a $2.4 million winner’s prize within the largest occasion of the ladies’s golf season.

The 25-year-old Stark grew to become the sixth Swede to win an LPGA main, and the primary since Anna Nordqvist earned the AIG Ladies’s Open title in 2021.

Stark, who performed at Oklahoma State from 2019-21, is the primary Swede to win a U.S. Ladies’s Open since Annika Sorenstam in 2006.

That is Stark’s second LPGA title. She additionally gained the 2022 ISPS Handa World Invitational, a Women European Tour occasion in Northern Eire that was co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour.