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Sei Young Kim shot a final-round 67 to win the BMW Ladies Championship by 4 strokes in wire-to-wire style on Sunday in Haenam, South Korea.
Her victory at Pine Beach Golf Links 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 document.
It additionally was her maiden profession win in her residence nation, and she or he was thrilled together with her first trophy in 5 years.
‘So there have been many probabilities the place I might have received, so I assumed very onerous why I could not get the probabilities,’ Kim, 32, mentioned. ‘But up to now I used to be attempting to set a selected solution to resolve that, however I understand that that wasn’t actually working.
‘From the China occasion, I attempted to reset the entire thing and never simply follow one methodology, simply doing impromptu and simply dealing with the problem and attempting to push it means by means of. I understand that that is really my model, and that is one thing that I’ve lastly realized, and I feel 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 event. Celine Boutier of France (67) and Kim A-lim of South Korea (66) had been six pictures off Kim’s tempo and tied for third.
Both Hataoka and Boutier had been inspired by their outcomes, regardless of not being atop the leaderboard.
‘I had an excellent week. I performed fairly strong week each single day, and yeah, I actually loved it, enjoying with Sei Young final group remaining spherical,’ Hataoka mentioned. ‘I’m very blissful at the moment.’
So was Boutier.
‘Definitely some positives,’ she mentioned. ‘I positively really feel like I might have improved a couple of pictures right here and there, particularly off the tee. But contemplating my type, I really feel like I’m fairly glad with the outcome.
Defending champion Hannah Green fired a 66 to complete seven pictures again, tied with American Yealimi Noh in fifth place.
‘It was very nice,’ Green, an Australian, mentioned of her 4 rounds. ‘I feel coming again to a spot the place I’m defending, I put a bit extra strain on myself however I feel — I felt like my sport was good. It was good to have some good outcomes however I additionally had some good folks to play with.’
–Field Level Media