Feb 27th, 2023 Article
Lilia Vu wins the Honda LPGA Thailand
On a windy day at Siam Country Club’s Pattaya Old Course, it was American Lilia Vu who emerged victorious, winning by one shot over 54-hole leader Natthakritta Vongtaveelap.
On a windy day at Siam Country Club’s Pattaya Old Course, it was American Lilia Vu who emerged victorious, winning by one shot over 54-hole leader Natthakritta Vongtaveelap.
With an eagle on the second playoff hole, Nanna Koerstz Madsen captured the 2022 Honda LPGA Thailand and became the first LPGA Tour winner from Denmark. She outlasted a hard-fought battle with China’s Xiyu Lin, draining a 10-foot putt to take the title.
Heading into the final round at the 2022 Honda LPGA Thailand, Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen heads a tightly packed leaderboard. With a bogey-free 66 on Saturday, Koerstz Madsen reached twenty-one-under overall, setting a new tournament 54-hole scoring record.
First-round co-leaders Nasa Hataoka and Su Oh continued their bogey-free play on Friday at the Honda LPGA Thailand, carding matching 65s on Siam Country Club Pattaya’s Old Course. The duo maintained their spots atop the leaderboard at sixteen-under, tying the tournament’s 36-hole scoring record of 128 set by Jessica Korda in 2018 and matched by Patty Tavatanakit in 2021.
In a nail-biting finish, Ariya Jutanugarn overturned a five-shot deficit to win the Honda LPGA Thailand at Siam Country Club Pattaya by a single shot from Countrywoman Atthaya Thitikul.
Lexi Thompson has been involved in another rules controversy, this time at the Honda LPGA in Thailand.
As expected, the LPGA has confirmed that they have cancelled two more events in Asia. The Honda LPGA Thailand in Pattaya, Thailand that was scheduled to be played between 20th and 23rd February and the HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore the following week are both casualties of the Coronavirus scare.
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Not surprisingly, the LPGA has announced that the Blue Bay golf event, due to take place in China on 5 March, has been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak. Organisers of the event, due to be staged on Hainan Island, said the health and safety of players, fans and staff was their "highest priority".
There are seven major winners on The Chevron Championship 2022 leaderboard at the end of day one, with Jennifer Kupcho and Minjee Lee tied at the top after shooting opening rounds of 66 in the relatively benign morning conditions.
San Francisco's Olympic Club has hosted the men's US Open on five occasions, the last being in 2012 when Webb Simpson won the event. The Olympic Lake Course is 6,486 yards long, tree-lined with narrow fairways and small greens guarded by bunkers.
The inaugural Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play Hosted by Shadow Creek is down to four players, vying for the LPGA Tour’s first match-play title since 2017. American Ally Ewing will take on Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn in Sunday’s first semifinal match, while China’s Shanshan Feng, who won her quarterfinal match with a 50-foot birdie on the first playoff hole, will face off with Germany’s Sophia Popov.