Angel Yin units 72-hole LPGA scoring checklist in profitable 2d excursion tournament in Thailand
PATTAYA, Thailand — Angel Yin etched her identify into girls’s excursion historical past with a record-breaking victory on the LPGA Thailand match, securing her 2d excursion identify with an rock bottom profitable rating of 260 at Siam Nation Membership Pattaya Previous Route on Sunday.
The sector No. 17 delivered a flawless final-round 65 to complete at 28 beneath par, edging Eastern rookie Akie Iwai by way of a unmarried stroke.
Her profitable overall bettered the former LPGA checklist of 261 set by way of Annika Sorenstam in Arizona in 2001. Yin additionally rewrote the match’s 72-hole checklist of 262, surpassing the former mark held by way of Nanna Koerstz Madsen and Xiyu Lin from 2022.
“I wasn’t that comfy as a result of Akie shot 10 beneath the primary day and this route may be very gettable. So I simply needed to stay my head down,” stated Yin.
Regardless of beginning the overall around with a five-stroke benefit, Yin confronted relentless power from sponsor invite Iwai, who charged up the leaderboard and momentarily shared the lead at 24-under after a birdie at the twelfth gap. Then again, Yin, who remaining triumphed on the 2023 Buick LPGA Shanghai, answered with 3 consecutive birdies to regain keep watch over and not seemed again.
The 26-year-old is the fourth American to seize the LPGA Thailand identify, becoming a member of Lilia Vu (2023), Jessica Korda (2018), and Lexi Thompson (2016). She may be a two-time main runner-up — on the 2023 Chevron Championship and the 2019 U.S. Ladies’s Open.
Regardless of completing 2d, Iwai made historical past of her personal, firing a tournament-low around of 61. She carded 10 birdies and a ultimate eagle towards a lone bogey to settle at 261.
International No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand was once in 3rd position with a final-round 66, completing at 267. Protecting champion Patty Tavatanakit and fellow Thai Moriya Jutanugarn shared fourth position at 269.
The development is the primary prevent of the LPGA’s so-called Asian swing sooner than the excursion strikes to Singapore and China over the following two weeks.
