After Lydia Ko and Jiyai Shin finished the 0.33 spherical of the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open in a tie for the lead at -17 -- and numerous pictures ahead of the relaxation of the sphere -- GC decided to do a live broadcast of the very last round. After all, if Ko gained she will be the first beginner ever to win two LPGA events.
What GC were given won't had been what they anticipated, but it changed into quite cool all of the same.
In the first two holes Ko went double-bogey, bogey to fall 4 strokes behind Shin, who went birdie-par. By the stop of five holes Ko had added 2 birdies and Shin a bogey, leaving them separated by means of a unmarried stroke. Those could go to and fro for the remainder of the spherical.
The unexpected came from Yani Tseng, who started the day 8 strokes lower back and made things worse by way of beginning her spherical with a bogey. She then set up a rate, shooting birdie-birdie-birdie-par-eagle in her subsequent 5 holes and including three greater birdies at the back 9. She posted -7 at the day, finishing at -sixteen.
In the give up, Lydia just couldn't get again the shape that set a route report -10 inside the first round. She struggled with bogeys the relaxation of the day at the same time as Shin popped in birdies at 14 and 15 to reach -18.
Shin gained at -18, even as Yani blew every body away with a runner-up finish at -sixteen and Lydia controlled a solo 1/3 at -14. Still, GC ought to be pretty excited. They took a big gamble on a historical end and ended up with an interesting conflict between legends and a legend-to-be. Plus we learned some different things:
- Jiyai Shin showed that she's finally healthy again and ready to play.
- Yani Tseng proved that she's not ready to give up that #1 position without a fight.
- And while Lydia Ko didn't make the history most folks expected, she's now won 3 of 13 professional starts. That's pretty heady stuff for a 15-year-old amateur.
The photos came from the participant profile pages at LPGA.Com.
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