Sei Younger Kim shot a final-round 67 to win the BMW Women Championship by 4 strokes in wire-to-wire trend on Sunday in Haenam, South Korea.
Her victory at Pine Seashore Golf Hyperlinks was the thirteenth of her profession and first because the 2020 ANNIKA. She is the twenty seventh totally different lady to win on tour this season, an LPGA file.
It additionally was her maiden profession win in her residence nation, and he or she was thrilled together with her first trophy in 5 years.
“So there have been many probabilities the place I may have gained, so I believed very exhausting why I could not get the probabilities,” Kim, 32, stated. “However previously I used to be making an attempt to set a specific solution to resolve that, however I notice that that wasn’t actually working.
“From the China occasion, I attempted to reset the entire thing and never simply stick to one methodology, simply doing impromptu and simply going through the problem and making an attempt to push it means via. I notice that that is really my fashion, and that is one thing that I’ve lastly realized, and I believe that is one thing extra significant than the victory I made: that realization that I made.”
Kim completed with a 24-under 264. On Sunday, her spherical was marred by solely a bogey on the par-3 third gap, which preceded six birdies.
Nasa Hataoka of Japan couldn’t chip away at Kim’s lead, additionally ending with a 67 and 268 for the match. Celine Boutier of France (67) and Kim A-lim of South Korea (66) have been six photographs off Kim’s tempo and tied for third.
Each Hataoka and Boutier have been inspired by their outcomes, regardless of not being atop the leaderboard.
“I had an important week. I performed fairly stable week each single day, and yeah, I actually loved it, taking part in with Sei Younger final group last spherical,” Hataoka stated. “I am very blissful at the moment.”
So was Boutier.
“Positively some positives,” she stated. “I positively really feel like I may have improved a number of photographs right here and there, particularly off the tee. However contemplating my type, I really feel like I am fairly happy with the end result.
Defending champion Hannah Inexperienced fired a 66 to complete seven photographs again, tied with American Yealimi Noh in fifth place.
“It was very nice,” Inexperienced, an Australian, stated of her 4 rounds. “I believe coming again to a spot the place I’m defending, I put a bit extra strain on myself however I believe — I felt like my recreation was good. It was good to have some good outcomes however I additionally had some good folks to play with.”
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