Lpga Tour - South Koreas Shin Wins Womens British Open By Record 9 Strokes - Businessweek

Jiyai Shin regarding South Korea claimed the actual Women utes British Open by the record seven cerebral vascular accidents to get the woman's next direct victory on the LPGA Tour .

Shin overcame wind flow and also water to help take rounds of 1-under par 71 and 1-over 73 yesterday to make 9-under par 279 about several units from Royal Liverpool Golf Club around Hoylake, England. Inbee Park complete second from even-par, while Paula Creamer was third from 1 over. The tournament situation complete with 36 pockets after huge hours destroyed a day utes play on Sept. 14.

The 24-year-old Shin, that additionally won the actual 2008 Women s British Open, final full week taken the LPGA s Kingsmill Championship by outlasting Creamer within a nine-hole playoff which retarded the woman's introduction around England by one day.

My first win inside 2008 altered my own life, Shin said throughout remarks on the event ersus website. This win, I consider it can change them too. I said at first on the 1 week I desired to have fun with every single spherical available as one beneath par so to get at seven beneath on this temperature on the course since tough when it is incredible.

Shin vertisements margin associated with victory will be the major at your Women azines British Open considering that the tournament grew to be a primary in 2001, surpassing Karen Stupples verts five-shot earn inside 2004. Louise Suggs keeps the track record for any largest margin associated with victory with an LPGA major, with a 14-shot win with the 1949 U.S. Women s Open.

Shin s earn marks the best time in which all three women of all ages s major golf competitions have got also been received by Asian participants from the similar season, the LPGA Tour said. Fellow South Koreans Sun Young Yoo and Na Yeon Choi picked up the actual Kraft Nabisco Championship and also U.S. Women verts Open, respectively, when China utes Shanshan Feng seized the LPGA Championship.

Asian golfers have won seven of the beyond 12 majors around the LPGA Tour .

I can t explain why countless Asian people are winning majors for the moment, Shin said. Maybe the item azines because of difficult work. Maybe the idea utes luck, or a little both.

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