PORTLAND, Ore. — Moriya Jutanugarn emerged from a good pack late Sunday afternoon at Columbia Edgewater to win the Portland Traditional for her third profession LPGA Tour title and first particular person victory in additional than six years.
Three strokes behind chief Andrea Lee going into the spherical, Jutanugarn shot a 6-under 66 in principally calm circumstances for a two-stroke victory over three gamers.
“Form of been a very long time since my final win,” Jutanugarn mentioned. “To be in competition for the previous few days, it is sort of good. I really feel like I have not been in competition for a short while.”
Jutanugarn completed at 22-under 266, enjoying the primary 71 holes with out a bogey. The 30-year-old Thai participant birdied Nos. 13-15 and made an 8-footer to save lots of par on the par-3 sixteenth. She made a brief birdie putt on the par-4 seventeenth and closed with a bogey.
“Once you make that putt, it seems rather a lot higher and like taking a whole lot of the stress off,” Jutanugarn mentioned in regards to the par save on 16.
Narin An (66), Nataliya Guseva (68) and Angel Yin (69) tied for second. The 21-year-old Guseva is the primary Russian participant with an LPGA Tour card.
“I am, actually, fairly comfortable,” Guseva mentioned. “I put a whole lot of work into that, however on the identical time, I am sort of dissatisfied as a result of I knew like I might win this factor very simply.”
Jutanugarn’s earlier particular person LPGA Tour victory got here within the 2018 HUGEL-JTBC LA Open. In 2021, she teamed with youthful sister Ariya Jutanugarn to win the 2021 Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational.
“So excited and so happy with her, as a result of like I do know (she’s) been ready for therefore lengthy,” mentioned Ariya Jutanugarn, a 12-time LPGA Tour winner who closed with a 65 on Sunday to tie for ninth at 17 below.
Sofia Garcia (68) and So Mi Lee (70) tied for fifth at 19 below, and second-round chief Dewi Weber (72) was one other stroke again.
Lee, the 2022 winner for her lone LPGA Tour title, had a 74 to complete within the group at 17 below.
Weber dropped again with a double bogey on the par-4 fifteenth and a bogey on 16. She was making an attempt to win for the primary time on the LPGA Tour and ship a press release to the Dutch Olympic committee that it made a mistake by declining to ship her to Paris.
She certified for the Olympics below Worldwide Golf Federation requirements however was disregarded due to the Netherlands’ separate requirements for all sports activities to fulfill a sensible likelihood of a top-eight end.
With the Olympics subsequent week, nobody from the highest 30 on the planet rating was within the discipline. The lone Olympian in Portland was Aditi Ashok of India. She completed with a 72 to tie for twenty second at 14 below.
