Marina Alex wins LPGA Tour’s Palos Verdes Championship
PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Marina Alex received the Palos Verdes Championship on Sunday for her second LPGA Tour title, breaking a tie with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 sixteenth and parring the ultimate two holes for a one-stroke victory over Jin Younger Ko.
Three strokes behind Hannah Inexperienced coming into the spherical, Alex closed with a 5-under 66 to complete at 10-under 274 at hilly and windy Palos Verdes Golf Membership.
The highest-ranked Ko additionally shot a 66. She completed about an hour earlier than Alex within the first-year occasion that wrapped up the LPGA Tour’s two-week, Los Angeles-area keep and five-tournament West Coast swing.
Alex bogeyed the par-4 third, then birdied the par-4 fifth, par-5 seventh and par-4 eighth. She added birdies on the par-3 eleventh and par-Twelfth and two-putted from 40 toes on 16 to take the outright lead.
The 31-year-old from Wayne, New Jersey, additionally received the 2018 Portland Basic. She tied for tenth final week at Whilshire Nation Membership within the LA Open.
Third-ranked Lydia Ko (70) and Megan Khang (68) tied for third at 8 beneath. Inexperienced shot her second straight 72 to drop right into a tie for fifth at 7 beneath with Ryann O’Toole (68), Andrea Lee (69) and Annie Park (69).
Canada’s Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., completed her event taking pictures a 74 and falling again right into a tie for thirty third place after starting the day in a tie for Twelfth.
Anna Davis, the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner winner, closed with a 76 to complete seventieth in her first LPGA Tour begin. The 16-year-old is from Spring Valley east of San Diego. She obtained a sponsor exemption.
“It’s been a extremely enjoyable expertise, I might say,” Davis stated. “General it’s been actually enjoyable. Tremendous good expertise, and it’s one thing I look ahead to doing in my future. So, glad that I received to see a bit sneak peek this week.”
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