Lorena inflicts ’sudden-death’
WORLD No.1 Lorena Ochoa rallied from a three-shot deficit, with two holes to play, to win her third title of the year in a sudden-death play-off to the Wegmans LPGA today (AEST).
South Korea rookie In-Kyung Kim started the day one behind, but finished in a tie at eight-under 280 after shooting 72 to the Mexican’s 73.
Australia’s Lindsey Wright finished tied for fifth place, two strokes behind the leaders, after a final-round 71.
In the play-off, Ochoa made a par at the second extra hole, the par-4 10th, to repeat her 2005 Rochester win.
It was the perfect warm-up for the US Open, starting at Pine Needles, North Carolina, on Friday (AEST).
Kim, 19, had been three ahead of the field on the 17th, but Ochoa cut the margin to one when she eagled the long 17th with an 18-foot putt.
At the tough, par-4 18th, Kim hit her second through the green and failed to get up and down for par. At the second extra hole, she drove into trees.
South Korea’s Mi Hyun Kim was third, firing a 69 for 281, and American Cristie Kerr fourth, a further shot back after a 71 for 282.
AAP