Ice-cool Hannah Inexperienced has completed it once more, becoming a member of Australia’s golf legends as a five-time LPGA Tour winner with an exciting victory on the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship in Singapore.
Inexperienced birdied the final three holes and drained a pressure-cooker 30-foot uphill putt on the 72nd gap on Sunday to grab victory from would-be world No.1 Celine Boutier.
The 27-year-old closed with a 3rd straight five-under-par 67 to win by a shot at 13 below from Boutier, the French world No.3 who would have usurped American Lilia Vu for the highest rating had she gained.
Boutier additionally carded a closing 67.
Inexperienced, the 2019 US Ladies’s PGA champion, joins Karrie Webb, Jan Stephenson, fellow Perth star Minjee Lee and Rachel Hetherington as solely the fifth Australian to win a minimum of 5 instances on the LPGA Tour.
In addition to hovering into the highest 10 on the LPGA’s season-long Race to Globe factors checklist, Inexperienced follows Webb, the nation’s most prolific main championship winner, as a victor on this prestigious $US1.8 million, no-cut event.
Her newest triumph additionally served as redemption of types after Inexperienced suffered a heartbreaking runner-up end at Sentosa Golf Membership beforehand.
“A number of years in the past, I virtually had this trophy on my fingers and made two bogeys coming down the final (stretch), so it is virtually prefer it was meant to be right now for me holing these two putts on the final two holes,” Inexperienced stated..
“I am so completely satisfied to have this in my fingers.”