KPMG Women's PGA Championship: Minjee Lee closes out third major title with impressive three-shot victory at PGA Frisco

Minjee Lee secured her third main title after closing out a powerful three-shot victory on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.

The Australian took a four-shot lead into the ultimate day at PGA Frisco’s Fields Ranch East and by no means relinquished high spot, regardless of three bogeys in a four-hole stretch on her entrance 9 halving her in a single day benefit.

Lee noticed a birdie on the par-five ninth cancelled out by a bogey on the subsequent however restored management of the event with back-to-back positive factors from the 14th, pulling her 4 forward of the chasing pack with three holes to play.

The world No 24 bogeyed the sixteenth however closed out victory with successive pars, with a two-over 74 sufficient to finish the week on 4 underneath and away from closest challengers Chanette Wannasaen and Auston Kim.

Wannasaen and Kim each charged up the leaderboard with final-round 68s, leaving them on one underneath and the one different gamers to finish the week under-par, whereas world No 2 Jeeno Thitikul ended an extra two strokes again in tied-fourth with Chisato Iwai.

How Minjee closed out main success

Lee held a commanding benefit after a bogey-free Saturday and pulled 5 forward when Thitikul bogeyed the par-five first, earlier than each gamers dropped a shot on the par-five third.

Again-to-back bogeys from the fourth noticed Lee’s lead minimize to a few, with Kim – who began the day 9 again – then charging to inside two after closing her front-nine 33 with three consecutive birdies.

Lee took benefit of the par-five ninth to achieve the flip three forward however began her again 9 with a bogey, leaving her simply two clear, with the group in tied-second bunching when Wannasaen eagled the driveable fifteenth to additionally get to at least one underneath.

A birdie on the par-five 14th and one other from seven toes on the subsequent put Lee 4 clear and helped her shut out a powerful victory, along with her eleventh LPGA Tour victory incomes her a $1.8m (£1.34m) first prize.

“Lots of persistence on the market,” Lee stated after her victory. “Clearly, I had ups and downs as we speak. It is a battle towards myself just about, particularly with how robust the situations had been this entire week, not simply as we speak. Simply amplified as a result of it is main Sunday.”

Again-to-back 73s over the weekend noticed Charley Hull finish 9 strokes again within the group that contained AIG Ladies’s Open champion Lydia Ko and American Lexi Thompson, who struggled to a closing 76.

What’s subsequent?

The LPGA Tour heads to Michigan for the Dow Championship, with protection from Midland Nation Membership starting stay on Thursday from 4pm on Sky Sports activities+.

The ladies’s main season continues subsequent month on the Amundi Evian Championship, stay from July 10-13 on Sky Sports activities Golf, the place Ayaka Furue is defending champion. Not got Sky? Stream the PGA Tour and more with no contract.