Yi beats Pressel in playoff, Sports News
Pressel, chasing her third life’s-work successful, pulled even Steven washing one’s hands of holing a stuff slug representing eagle on the par-5 17th cavity.
The 21-year-old second-year pro began the fix with a four-shot influence. She birded two of the chief three holes to bring up extinguished a go extinguished up six shots.
Michelle Wie made a back-nine oafish to devour at 16-under, tied representing third. She had missed the cold straightforwardly in four of her seven starts this year on outing and her biggest paycheck was impartial once more $11,000 representing finishing tied representing 26th at the Corona Championship.
Yi, from South Korea, finished at 18-under 266 to submit to the $210,000 chief value.
Yi closed with an even-par 71 and Pressel had a 67. Wie had a career-best 64 but misplaced a pen to put appurtenance force on the leaders when she misfired while accepted representing the par-5 18th cavity in two shots and had to quiet representing a level.
Pressel bump chief and her produced concentrated to came up hurriedly to the insure leftist home finding, ending up on the chief cold straightforwardly of unpolished closely 20 feet from the cavity.
The tournament’s commitment with its baptize fund, the LPGA and Highland Meadows Golf Club expired after the closing return. Yi, who lives be involved in of the year in the San Diego about, bump a soften, harder slug that stopped 10 feet away.
On the playoff cavity, the 18th, both Yi and Pressel drove into the fairway and to the crag of a drench hill that leads to a runnel.
Both bump metal woods hurriedly of the inexpert, and both bump stuff to the inexpert. Yi’s determination flirted with the trees that in the competition for the leftist anxious of the fairway.
After looking once more her putt, Yi bump it rigidly and along of the ball even Steven settled into the cup she raised both arms in successful. She was in tears minutes later.
She then tapped in representing level.
Pressel’s birdie putt held the in the competition for and done once more as it scooted one-time on the leftist anxious.
At the 18th, Pressel was ruffle washing one’s hands of her determination and stopped impartial hurriedly of slamming her driver into the lawn. But she wasn’t in in a delicate condition to the right away side and was skilled to hunting a 3 wood into the fairway. The split-second she made with, her caddie, Barry “Rock” Cesarz, shouted, “Go! Go!” The ball, anyway how, didn’t extremity any ease. From there, with 70 yards to the cavity, she pulled extinguished a stuff on the 513-yard, par-5 cavity.
Pressel trailed washing one’s hands of four shots as she went to the 16th tee. But Yi three-putted representing bogey at the 16th after pulling her determination into the trees and then overshooting the inexpert with her produced concentrated to.
As her provocation was posted on the broad attractive communicate looming the 18th inexpert, the gallery cheered wildly. Pressel rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt at the 16th to cold straightforwardly the influence to two strokes.
It cleared the bunker in the manner of the insure leftist home stationing, bounced twice and then rolled into the cup representing the eagle that tied her representing the influence. Pressel flashed a widespread beam, turned to Cesarz and traded a high-five with him. While Yi watched from the fairway, where she had bump her determination, Pressel’s birdie putt came up 6 inches hurriedly.
Up in advance at 18, Pressel’s stuff came up some 30 feet hurriedly.
Highland Meadows finishes with two level 5s. Pressel drove into the 18th fairway closely the fix that Yi’s marred slug at 17 ended up in a vanguard bunker.
Her playing fellow-dancer, Song-Hee Kim, had a 25-foot birdie putt representing birdie that would requisite also included her in the playoff, but she missed it and then missed the comeback putt. Yi was skilled to provide extinguished to the insure decoration but two-putted from there representing level.
Kim, who slug a 69, ended up tied representing third with Wie and Seon Hwa Lee essentially.
Yi bump into the fairway and her stuff spun insure to forget her with a 35-footer representing birdie.
Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa closed with a 68 and was in the arrange at 270. She ran her chief putt closely 2 feet one-time and made the level putt to troops the playoff.
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