LPGA TOUR REPORT
Janice Moodie's joint 12th finish earns her $21,447
Janice Moodie finished joint 12th yesterday in the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club, Sylvania, Ohio.
It was the Glasgow-born player's best performance on the LPGA Tour for some time.
She earned $21,447 to boost her season's earnings to $97,319 which puts her 56th on the current money list.
Eunjung Yi won the top cash prize of $210,000 in the 25th Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic to become the season's third Rolex First-Time Winner. Yi, a 21-year-old out of South Korea, finished the week at 18-under-par 266 (68-66-61-71), and beat runner-up Morgan Pressel (64-68-67-67=266, -18) in a one-hole, sudden-death play-off. Morgan's reward was $126,370,
Yi turned four solid rounds at Highland Meadows Golf Club, and stayed focused on her game the entire time. On Sunday, she wasn't concerned about being ahead of the field by six strokes, then allowing Pressel to catch her and tie it up as the final hole loomed. She was just concerned about her own game.
“I was just focusing on my golf,” said Yi. "I didn't see today the scoreboard, not at all. I was just hitting my driver shot and then second shot. I was just focusing every shot. That's why I got the win this week.”
On Saturday in round three, Yi recorded a career-low, and almost a new tournament record, 10-under-par 61. This came on a bogey-free, eight-birdie, one-eagle day. Once the final round begun, Yi had a four-stroke lead, but definitely made it exciting coming down the stretch. Yi had no idea she had let the six-stroke lead disappear, and that Pressel has tied it up.
“No. I didn't know that,” said Yi. “I was on 17 tee box, because people were yelling, so I thought then that she made eagle.”
After bogeying the 16th hole, only her fifth of the week, and Pressel recording an eagle on 17, the score was all tied up. Then, once the two finalists returned to the 18th tee to settle this thing once and for all, the youngster prevailed, and birdied the 18th hole, in a one-hole, sudden-death format over Pressel. The win is her first in her two years of having LPGA Tour membership.
Yi turned four solid rounds at Highland Meadows Golf Club, and stayed focused on her game the entire time. On Sunday, she wasn't concerned about being ahead of the field by six strokes, then allowing Pressel to catch her and tie it up as the final hole loomed. She was just concerned about her own game.
“I was just focusing on my golf,” said Yi. "I didn't see today the scoreboard, not at all. I was just hitting my driver shot and then second shot. I was just focusing every shot. That's why I got the win this week.”
On Saturday in round three, Yi recorded a career-low, and almost a new tournament record, 10-under-par 61. This came on a bogey-free, eight-birdie, one-eagle day. Once the final round begun, Yi had a four-stroke lead, but definitely made it exciting coming down the stretch. Yi had no idea she had let the six-stroke lead disappear, and that Pressel has tied it up.
“No. I didn't know that,” said Yi. “I was on 17 tee box, because people were yelling, so I thought then that she made eagle.”
After bogeying the 16th hole, only her fifth of the week, and Pressel recording an eagle on 17, the score was all tied up. Then, once the two finalists returned to the 18th tee to settle this thing once and for all, the youngster prevailed, and birdied the 18th hole, in a one-hole, sudden-death format over Pressel. The win is her first in her two years of having LPGA Tour membership.
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