World quantity three Lydia Ko moved away from the remainder of the sphere within the ultimate spherical to win her first HSBC Girls’s World Championship in Singapore.
The New Zealander, a three-time main winner, began the ultimate spherical one shot forward of England’s Charley Hull.
However three successive birdies from the sixth put the 27-year-old Olympic champion in a robust place and Ko completed with a spherical of 69 for a 13-under whole, 4 away from Thailand’s Jeeno Thitikul and Japan’s Ayaka Furue.
Hull, who stated after Saturday’s third spherical that she had been scuffling with sickness, slipped out of rivalry with a ultimate two-over-par spherical of 74 for a seven-under whole in a share of third.
Ko’s victory was her first in 11 appearances on the occasion on the Tanjong Course at Sentosa Golf Membership – and her twenty third LPGA win.
“I simply needed to deal with my recreation because it was a fairly tight leaderboard,” she stated.
“I did not know if I might win. However to win right here in Singapore and get all of the love, not solely this yr however for the years that I’ve come, it means quite a bit.”
