Australian Hannah Inexperienced’s robust begin to 2026 continued with victory within the JM Eagle LA Championship – her fourth triumph of the yr.
In March, she grew to become the primary Australian to win the Girls’s Australian Open since 2014, and lifted the LPGA’s Women’s World Championship and the Australian WPGA Championship.
In Los Angeles, Inexperienced holed a curling 12-foot birdie putt on the primary play-off gap to win this LPGA Tour occasion for the third time in 4 years.
It was a surprising victory for Inexperienced given she had briefly been six photographs adrift of the lead after Kim Sei-young chipped in for an eagle three on the eleventh.
Inexperienced responded with the primary of 5 birdies in six holes as she reeled in Kim and Im Jin-hee and all three completed on 17 underneath par.
“I did not suppose I used to be nonetheless within the event,” stated Inexperienced, who received her solely main, the Girls’s PGA Championship, in 2019.
On her tournament-winning stroke, she added: “I had that putt, comparable line in regulation, so I felt considerably snug.”
Kim had already missed a 35-foot birdie try whereas Im – penalised a stroke for sluggish play throughout Saturday’s third spherical – was additionally unable to get down in three after a wayward tee shot.
The event was performed at El Caballero for the second yr due to course renovations at Wilshire the place Inexperienced had received this title in 2023 and 2024.
Throughout Saturday’s spherical, the event’s prize cash was elevated by $1m to $4.75m (£3.5m), lifting the purse to the best on the tour exterior of the main championships and season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.
Because of that, Inexperienced took house $712,500, up from $562,500.
The Chevron Championship, the primary ladies’s main of the yr, stars on Thursday in Houston, Texas.
