Meijer LPGA Basic closing spherical
-17 M Yamashita (Jpn), L Woad (Eng); -15 H Wei-ling (Tpe), Y Liu (Chn); -14 MJ Kang (Kor), C Porter (Aus); -13 J Yan (Chn) G Kim (Aus), M Katsu (Jpn)
Chosen others: -11 R Takeda (Jpn); -9 J Kupcho (US); -7 H Inexperienced (Aus); -6 M Lee (Aus); -3 L Walsh (Ire)
Lottie Woad was denied her third LPGA title as Miyu Yamashita fired a final-round 64 on the Meijer LPGA Basic earlier than successful on the primary play-off gap.
England’s Woad trailed in a single day chief Jing Yan by one stroke and produced a four-under 68 at Blythefield Nation Membership in Belmont, Michigan, on Sunday.
Woad, who claimed her second LPGA win last month, almost secured a memorable win after the 22-year-old holed out for birdie from the sand on the par-four seventeenth.
That moved the world quantity seven clear on 18 below however a four-foot putt for victory on the ultimate gap lipped out and he or she needed to accept a bogey and a play-off.
Japanese rival Yamashita had begun the day 5 strokes off the lead and birdied 5 of her first seven holes to shut the hole earlier than ending the day degree with Woad on 17 below.
The pair replayed the par-five 18th, with 24-year-old Yamashita getting nearer to the pin on the third shot.
Final 12 months’s Ladies’s Open champion, at present ranked the world quantity eight, then rolled in a birdie putt for her third LPGA title.
