Tseng storms to Australian Open victory
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March 15, 2010, Monday
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CHINESE Taipei's Yani Tseng won the Women's Australian Open by three strokes yesterday, shooting five birdies on the back nine for a seven-under 66 to pull away from former champions Karrie Webb and Laura Davies.
Tseng, the 2008 LPGA Championship winner, had a 72-hole total of nine-under 283 on the par-73 Commonwealth Golf Club in Melbourne. Hitting 17 greens in regulation yesterday, she birdied the final two holes to all but end any challenge from overnight leader Webb and Davies in the final group behind her.
Defending champion Davies of Britain shot 71, including a birdie on 18, to finish second.
Four-time Open winner and third-round leader Webb missed three putts for birdies inside four feet on the back nine and was third after a 74 and was four behind Tseng.
Fellow Australian Katherine Hull, who shot 72, finished tied for fourth with second-round leader Giulia Sergas of Italy (74), five off Tseng.
Webb wore a white shirt with blue-and-green trim - the same as last Sunday when she shot a course-record 11-under 61 at Royal Pines in Gold Coast to win her seventh Australian Masters title.
But while the shirt was the same, the outcome was very different as Webb, playing for the fourth week in a row after previous stops in Bangkok and Singapore, faltered in the closing stages. Instead Tseng was rewarded for steady iron play on the back nine - capitalizing on birdies on eight and nine to come home with a bogey-free finish.
Webb had started the day with a one-shot lead over Sergas.
Tseng, the 2008 LPGA Championship winner, had a 72-hole total of nine-under 283 on the par-73 Commonwealth Golf Club in Melbourne. Hitting 17 greens in regulation yesterday, she birdied the final two holes to all but end any challenge from overnight leader Webb and Davies in the final group behind her.
Defending champion Davies of Britain shot 71, including a birdie on 18, to finish second.
Four-time Open winner and third-round leader Webb missed three putts for birdies inside four feet on the back nine and was third after a 74 and was four behind Tseng.
Fellow Australian Katherine Hull, who shot 72, finished tied for fourth with second-round leader Giulia Sergas of Italy (74), five off Tseng.
Webb wore a white shirt with blue-and-green trim - the same as last Sunday when she shot a course-record 11-under 61 at Royal Pines in Gold Coast to win her seventh Australian Masters title.
But while the shirt was the same, the outcome was very different as Webb, playing for the fourth week in a row after previous stops in Bangkok and Singapore, faltered in the closing stages. Instead Tseng was rewarded for steady iron play on the back nine - capitalizing on birdies on eight and nine to come home with a bogey-free finish.
Webb had started the day with a one-shot lead over Sergas.
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