The american Jessica Korda, thanks to a nine-meter putt on the first hole of the playoff, he won the Diamond Resorts Championships Trophy in Orlando (Florida) this Sunday at the expense of his compatriot Danielle Kang, who had led the previous three rounds of at the start of the season on the LPGA Tour.
Repeat, 27, finished the fourth round with 66 strokes (-5) and a total of 260 (-24) with which he tied with Kang, who presented a score of 68 (-3), which forced the tiebreaker at the 18th hole of par 3.
AND Jessica Korda she dominated it with a birdie, the seventh of the day, by a single bogey on hole 3. The new champion, daughter of former Czech professional tennis players Petr Korda and Regina Rajchrtová, thus adding his sixth LPGA Tour title, but his first since 2018, when he won the Honda LPGA Thailand.
His sister Nelly, fourth in the world, finished in third place with a record of 67 strokes (-4) and a total of 262 (-22), while fourth was the South Korean In Gee Chun (267, -17).
Kang, 28, was in control of the tournament for the first three rounds, until inspiration came from Jessica, who in the third round delivered a card of 60 strokes (-11), his best record as a professional.
After reaching the final round two strokes clear, Kang, could not get the decisive putts on the green, where Jessica he was better at securing the title with the four birdies he made in the second half of the round.
Kang he finished the round with four birdies and a bogey, the one he made on hole 15 and that in the end it was going to cost him to lose the title.
The Mexican Gaby lopez, champion of the tournament, finished in eleventh place with 273 strokes (-11), the same as the French Celine Boutier and the english Georgia Hall.
López finished the round of the fourth round at the Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club in Orlando (Florida) with a signed scorecard of 69 strokes (-2) after making four birdies and two bogeys, the second on the 18th hole .
The tournament, for champions of a tournament on the LPGA Tour, featured 25 players paired with 53 athletes and celebrities.
The LPGA’s condensed 2020 schedule led the tournament to add winners beginning in 2018 to fill out the field of entrants, making it possible for the new tournament champion to enter.
The former American tennis player Mardy Fish he was proclaimed celebrity champion in the portion of the tournament that used the ‘Modified Stableford’ format.
Final classification (par 71):
1. Jessica Korda (USA) -24 (65-69-60-66-2 playoff)
2. Danielle Kang (USA) -24 (64-65-63-68-3 playoff)
3. Nelly Korda (USA) -22 (65-66-67-64)
4. Chun In Gee (KOR) -17 (68-65-67-67)
5. Cheyenne Knight (USA) -16 (69-66-67-66)
. Angela Stanford (USA) -16 (67-69-67-65)
7. Brittany Lincicome (USA) -14 (66-74-64-66)
. Lexi Thompson (USA) -14 (67-69-69-65)
9. Brooke Henderson (CAN) -13 (67-69-65-70)
10. Sophia Popov (GER) -12 (68-69-67-68)
11. Céline Boutier (FRA) -11 (69-70-65-69)
