CATRIONA MATTHEW T8 AS JIYAI SHIN WINS AUSSIE OPEN
EUROPEAN TOUR
Canberra:
Rolex Rankings No. 8
Jiyai Shin outdueled Lydia Ko and held off a surging world No. 1 Yani
Tseng to capture the ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open at Royal
Canberra Golf Club today.
Shin, winner of the Ricoh Women's British Open championship at Hoylake last year (pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency) stamped her authority on the championship when she hit a perfectly executed lob wedge chip shot into the 14th hole from thick rough.
The 24-year-old South Korean had stood on the 14th tee tied with the 15-year-old Ko, born in South Korea but brought up in New Zealand, at 16 under par, but Ko took bogey after finding a fairway bunker
and after Shin birdied the 15th, it was effectively over for
Ko, the winner of the previous week’s ISPS Handa New Zealand Open, who
finished in third place as the leading amateur.
Tseng fired the low round of the day, a 66, to shoot up to second position. She was still in the hunt coming down the 18th, but needing an eagle
she hit her second shot into the trees left of the green and took a par.
Shin,
who is once again a force in women’s golf after recovering from hand
surgery last year, said the pressure that mounted over Sunday’s
highlight made her
lob wedge shot one of the best shots of her career.
“Well I think today this
chip shot is very important for winning this tournament because before
when I chip it in, my play wasn’t bad,” said Shin. “But after chipped
it in I get
more in the legs and then more enjoy the other few holes. So it was
great up and down for me.”
The 2012 Ricoh Women’s
British Open champion said she could’ve taken relief but she preferred
the lie she already had near the wooden fence fixture.
“Yes, from the ball to the
hole around the 15 yard and then I hit a low wedge, 60 degree wedges and
I hit a little bit high shot and then it was land perfectly,” said
Shin. “Then the
actual lie, the green lie was straight, so I just keep focus, hit it
straight (laughs) because the fence is really close to the ball flight,
so I just - I’m thinking, just keep head down.”
While
most fans focused on Jiyai Shin and Lydia Ko, the world No. 1 player in
the world, Tseng, started the day eight shots back and chipped away at
the lead
playing three groups in front of final pair. Tseng used a bogey on No. 1
as motivation and got things going with three-consecutive birdies to
follow.
“After
first hole I wasn’t happy to make bogey there,” said Tseng. “I think I
was a little
nervous, but I don't know, but that bogey I think give me pump a little
bit. That’s why I think I make three birdies in a row, I think because
of that bogey.”
Tseng eagled No. 6 to get
her to 13-under and made the turn four strokes off the lead. It wasn’t
until the middle of her back nine when she thought she might have a shot
at catching
Shin.
“On
the back 9, I think about like 12, 13 hole because I know I was pretty
close but after I look next hole I made birdie, it was like, you never
see Jiyia
make bogey,” said Tseng.
“I think she only made a couple of bogey
today, but I feel like on the back you still have two more par 5s, so I
feel like still a good chance to make birdie and to make eagle to get
close. But I was pretty happy about it today.
I’m going to try my best and the last three holes really got me pumped
up little bit, because I really want to make birdie to get close.”
Tseng
would go on to get three more birdies on the back nine on Nos. 13, 15
and 16 to cut the lead to two. It came down to the final hole, the par 5
18th
to have any chance of catching Shin who still had three holes to play.
“I
know, I feel like I want to make eagle because I mean I’ve been hitting
my 17 pretty good all day, but on that one I just, I probably tried to
killed it
and it was pulling to the left,” said Tseng. “But I still got a pretty
good lie for the third shot. I mean, I just make that shot too
complicated. It should be pretty simple really. I kind of played that
tree and played, but those trees should be very easy
and I just hit it too hard for my third shot, otherwise could be a good
birdie there.”After
a brilliant putting performance in her first round, Ko thinks her work
on the greens still needs improvement. She had 21 putts on Thursday
during her
10-under 63 in comparison to her 33 during her final round.
“I
always think putting is the biggest part of the game and also the
psychology part,” said Ko. “So those are the two things I would like to
build up. I’ve
got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period
hopefully I’ll be able to get a little bit better.”
Scotland's former British Women's Open champion Catriona Matthew saved her best until last, scoring a six-under-par 67 in the last round to finish joint eighth - the highest finishing British player - on 11-under-par 281.
The North Berwick player, who had an eagle 3 at the long sixth and birtfdies at the long fourth, par-4 seventh, short 13th, par-4 14th and long 15th with only one bogey, at the 11th, in halves of 33-34, earned 21,488 Euros.
Jiyai Shin earned 135,090 Euros and runner-up Tseng 82,197 Euros.
LEADING FINAL TOTALSPar 292 (4x73)
274 Jiyai Shin (South Korea) 65 67 70 72
276 Yani Tseng (Taiwan) 68 71 71 66
278 Lydia Ko (NZ) (amateur) 63 69 70 76
279 Moriya Jutanugarn (Thailand) 70 70 70 69, Beatriz Recari (Spain) 68 69 71 71
280 Carlota Ciganda (Spain) 71 70 69 70, Gwladys Nocera (France) 74 71 65 70.
281 Katherine Hull (Australia) 68 73 71 69, Catriona Matthew (Scotland) 69 75 70 67, Thidapa Suwannapurn (Thailand) 71 72 71 67, Mariajo Uribe (Colombia) 64 67 79 71
SELECTED TOTALS
282 Florentyna Parker (England) 71 71 72 68 (T12)
288 Holly Aitchison (England) 70 68 75 75 (T48)
289 Becky Morgan (Wales) 72 72 72 73 (T55)
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