Norton, Massachusetts – Miranda Wang lost the first player on the women’s golf course before outputting a clutch in the last three holes to 2 70 and won her first LPGA title by defeating Jeeno Thitikul in the FM Championship on Sunday.
Wang became the seventh-place LPGA rookie to win the championship this year, no longer winning streaks from multiple winners in the first 23 games of the Tour year.
“I hope this is the first of many people and I will continue to work hard,” said Wang Wang, who won the victory point when he won the NCAA team championship in 2019. “It’s a dream come true.”
Thitikul took over No. 1 from Nelly Korda three weeks ago, and he was ready to end the winning streak and hopes of the King of Destruction when the Thai man hit 2 feet with the 9th-place Thai Front, her fifth birdie was ranked 3rd in Boston’s TPC 31 and led.
Wang stretched out some nerves when he missed a 3-foot birdie putt on the 5th 12nd. Then she walked short from the fairway at 15 and entered a bunker without reaching the green, falling to the lead with bogey.
But she showed a lot of Mosie in the finishing way, and Thitikul gave her a lot of help.
Thitikul was in the rough collar on his feet after a radical drive on the 17th. She hits the left and right shots, crosses the green, and has to row up and down from the other side to bogey.
“I don’t think I did anything wrong. It’s just some technical mistakes,” Thitikul said.
Wang missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the 1st 16, but then hit her entry 17 to 6 feet behind the hole and grabbed enough cups to get the birdie back to the lead.
Thitikul lowered the groove in the closed hole of 5-5, her wedge landed 5 feet less than the pin and rolled back about 20 feet. She won 67 criteria.
King lay down and hit the wedge 25 feet, playing with King’s last group stage in two under 20 matches under 268, he celebrated the tile effect as the man who was in LPGA’s 11th first-time winner this year.
Wang set the tone for her first LPGA title Thursday, when she made eight birdies in the first nine games after 10th. Her confidence only grows with putts, and she enters the final round with three.
“I started playing very well in the last nine games of the first round,” Wang said. “I think it might be my week. I really worked hard and didn’t give up.”
Zhang didn’t go through too many battles, missed the chance of a good bird after the turn, and then stood out in the double bogey on the 14th hole.
Sei Young Kim (70) finished third, three shots behind. Andrea Lee also shot 70 and scored another shot. Zhang and Jin Hee Im kept 72 shots, and he didn’t have bogey 62.
LPGA has 24 winners in 23 games – one of which is a team event – before entering the Cincinnati (Kroger Queen City) Championship in two weeks.
Korda, who won seven times last year, finished with 75 and beat Wang with 35th.
