Lauren Coughlin pulled away with excellent placing and closed with a 3-under 69 to win the Girls’s Scottish Open on Sunday, her second LPGA title this summer season, to safe a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup group.
Coughlin, who received the CPKC Girls’s Open in Canada three weeks in the past, recovered from a pair of early bogeys to maneuver forward of Megan Khang on the entrance 9 and Esther Henseleit of Germany on the again 9 at Dundonald Hyperlinks.
The 31-year-old American one-putted the ultimate seven holes on a cold day alongside the Ayrshire Coast, none extra devastating to Henseleit than the sixteenth gap. Coughlin was main by three and in bother in a bunker. She blasted out to twenty toes and holed the par putt.
Coughlin additionally saved par from simply off the inexperienced on the seventeenth and polished off her efficiency with a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th.
“I believe when you would have informed me [of her future wins] — I imply not to mention at the start of this 12 months however in all probability the start of final 12 months — I in all probability would not consider you in any respect that that is what I’ve simply completed,” she stated. “But it surely’s unimaginable, and I believe it simply exhibits how laborious I’ve labored to get right here and it is … superb.”
Coughlin completed at 15-under 273, 4 pictures forward of Henseleit (70). It was the second straight runner-up end for Henseleit, coming off her Olympic silver medal within the Paris Video games.
Coughlin, who performed faculty golf at Virginia, earned sufficient Solheim Cup factors to lock up one of many six automated spots for the Sept. 13-15 matches on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership in Gainesville, Virginia. It is going to be her Solheim Cup debut.
Khang was tied with Coughlin via 5 holes however did not make one other birdie and had two bogeys to complete with a 74. The American tied for third with Ayaka Furue of Japan, who shot a 68.
Charley Hull of England began with two bogeys in three holes and was by no means an element, closing with a 73 to complete fifth, seven pictures behind.
The ladies now head throughout Scotland for the Girls’s British Open at St. Andrews, the ultimate main championship of the 12 months.
The Related Press and Discipline Stage Media contributed to this report.
