Linn Grant of Sweden closed with a five-under 65 for a three-shot victory in The Annika.
She had a lot management of her recreation that she performed 52 consecutive holes with no bogey, a streak that ended on the ultimate gap on Sunday when it now not mattered.
It was Grant’s second LPGA title, and the second time she acquired a trophy from Swedish nice and event host Annika Sorenstam. Grant received the Scandinavian Combined in Sweden when Sorenstam and Henrik Stenson have been co-hosts.
“You made this course look simple. It is not simple,” Sorenstam instructed her on the 18th inexperienced.
It will need to have felt that method to Grant, who was by no means underneath a lot stress. She completed at 19-under 261 and had an opportunity to set the event file till a bogey on the ultimate gap, her first one since her opening gap on Friday.
Jennifer Kupcho birdied the primary gap to tie for the lead, however solely briefly. Grant birdied the following gap and by no means trailed once more. The Swede needed to make a 15-foot birdie putt to remain one forward by means of 5 holes, after which she seized management on the par-three ninth.
Kupcho made her second bogey of the entrance 9, and Grant rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt to increase the result in three photographs. Nobody acquired any nearer the remainder of the way in which.
Kupcho additionally closed with a 65.
It was Grant’s second LPGA title
“I am glad she was taking part in nicely as a result of I believe that actually pushed me to play higher,” Grant stated. “And total, I simply had the considered whoever wins goes to have a extremely good job.”
Gaby Lopez of Mexico birdied 4 of her final six holes for a 65 to complete third.
England’s Charley Hull completed joint fourth on 14 underneath.
Grant was working out of time to increase her streak of profitable every year someplace on the earth courting to 2020, when she was nonetheless an newbie and received twice on the Nordic Golf League. She has received titles on the LPGA, Women European Tour, LET Entry Sequence, Women Sunshine Tour, Nordic Golf League and even the European Tour, which co-sanctioned the Scandinavian Combined.
Defending champion Nelly Korda, a three-time winner at Pelican Golf Membership, began six photographs behind and could not hold tempo. She closed with a 69 and tied for fifteenth.
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