SHANGHAI — Gino Titicle rose from 4 strokes down with 5 holes left to win a playoff with Minami Katsu, then made one other nice shot within the fifth gap of the playoff to win the LPGA Shanghai and develop into the primary back-to-back LPGA event winner of the season on Sunday.
High-ranked Titicle’s 63 was the spherical of the day that included seven birdies and one eagle. The Thai participant’s 24-under 264 closed the hole to Japan’s chief, who had began the day with a two-stroke lead, and by the tip of the thirteenth gap had widened the hole to 4 strokes.
However the Thai participant birdied the 14th, fifteenth and sixteenth holes earlier than leveling the rating with an unimaginable eagle that despatched the ball bouncing alongside the speckled seventeenth inexperienced at Qizhong Huayuan Golf Membership in Shanghai.
Katsu (65) had no alternative however to reply along with his personal birdie on the seventeenth gap. She had one other birdie likelihood on the ultimate gap to claw again the victory, however the ball slipped by the outlet, forcing a playoff.
The primary 4 holes of the playoff, which rotated between Nos. 18 and 10, had been pars, and Masaru made two birdie putts to win, however each missed the outlet by a slim margin.
On the fifth gap of the playoff, the successful second shot on the par-4 18th missed the inexperienced, and Titicle’s masterful method put the ball 3 toes out, breaking the impasse.
Katsu’s birdie chip was spectacular however missed, and Titikul made a straightforward birdie putt to cap off a powerful victory, almost two years after dropping in an epic nine-hole playoff to Celine Boutier on the LPGA Malaysia.
It was Titicle’s second win of the season, following the Mizuho Americas Open in Could, and helped ease the frustration of an inexplicable four-putt meltdown on the ultimate gap of final month’s Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship.
“What occurred within the final occasion remains to be very clear in my thoughts, however I wish to show myself once more on this event. It is…like a dream come true. And you recognize, I am not carrying something on my shoulders,” she stated.
Minjee Lee, who gained her third main title on the Girls’s PGA Championship in June, shot a 68 on Sunday for a 19-under 269, ending third after her problem disappeared halfway by the spherical.
Jenny Bae of the US shot a spherical of 69 and completed in a tie for fourth place with Japan’s Miyu Yamashita (67) and South Korea’s Lee So-mi (69) at 17-under 271.
Defending champion Luoning Ying of China carded a ultimate spherical 68 and completed tied for twenty sixth place.
The Shanghai Video games are the primary of 5 to be held in Asia. South Korea will host two weeks together with an Worldwide Crown Staff occasion and tournaments in Malaysia and Japan.
