Park tops Matthew for year's 2nd major
June 11, 2013, Tuesday
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WORLD No. 1 Park In-bee won her second major title of the year on Sunday, downing Catriona Matthew at the third playoff hole to win the LPGA Championship in Pittsford, New York.
The sudden-death playoff made a long day even longer, coming after the field completed 36 holes in a marathon finish made necessary after rain washed out play on Thursday.
After both players parred the first two playoff holes -- the 18th and 10th - they returned again to 18 - the same hole that Park bogeyed in regulation to fall into a tie with Matthew on 5-under 283.
Needing only a par to win after Matthew hit her tee shot into the rough, Park sealed her fourth win of the season with a birdie.
Park had seized the lead on Sunday morning with a third-round 68 that left her one stroke in front of American Morgan Pressel.
But the South Korean star, who won the first women's major of the year, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, in April, struggled to a 3-over 75 in the final round as Matthew followed up her third-round 73 with a bogey-free 68.
Matthew came from seven strokes back going into the final round to get into the playoff.
The sudden-death playoff made a long day even longer, coming after the field completed 36 holes in a marathon finish made necessary after rain washed out play on Thursday.
After both players parred the first two playoff holes -- the 18th and 10th - they returned again to 18 - the same hole that Park bogeyed in regulation to fall into a tie with Matthew on 5-under 283.
Needing only a par to win after Matthew hit her tee shot into the rough, Park sealed her fourth win of the season with a birdie.
Park had seized the lead on Sunday morning with a third-round 68 that left her one stroke in front of American Morgan Pressel.
But the South Korean star, who won the first women's major of the year, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, in April, struggled to a 3-over 75 in the final round as Matthew followed up her third-round 73 with a bogey-free 68.
Matthew came from seven strokes back going into the final round to get into the playoff.
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