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Allisen Corpuz poured in six birdies to interrupt away from the pack and win the U.S. Women’s Open by three strokes on Sunday at Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links — incomes not solely her first main title however her first win of any sort on the LPGA Tour.
Corpuz, a 25-year-old from Honolulu, took residence a $2 million winner’s share of the $11 million prize pool, each information for girls’s skilled golf. It marked the primary girls’s main of the trendy period to be held on the famed course alongside the Pacific Ocean.
She performed within the remaining pairing with Japan’s Nasa Hataoka and trailed Hataoka’s lead by one shot getting into the day. Corpuz turned in a 3-under 69 to complete at 9-under 279.
After taking part in the entrance 9 in 1-under 35 to tie Hataoka at 7 beneath for the championship, Corpuz birdied the par-4 tenth to take a lead she wouldn’t relinquish. Hataoka bogeyed No. 12, 14 and 16 and Corpuz transformed consecutive brief birdie putts at Nos. 14 and 15.
England’s Charley Hull rocketed up the leaderboard with a 6-under 66, matching Hataoka’s Saturday rating for the low spherical of the week. Hull and South Korea’s Jiyai Shin (68) tied for second at 6 beneath, and Hataoka (76) light to a tie for fourth at 3 beneath with Bailey Tardy (73).
Corpuz, who wanted simply 26 putts Sunday to tempo the sphere, was a rookie in 2022 and entered the week with 4 top-five finishes in her year-plus on tour. That included a T4 end within the first main of this season, the Chevron Championship.
–Field Level Media