SO YEON RYU PIPS INBEE PARK TO WIN WORLD LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP
So Yeon Ryu came from a shot back in the final round to win her first World Ladies Championship title Sunday, beating overnight leader and defending champion Inbee Park by one shot in the European Tour tournament. Ryu, the 2011 U.S. Women's Open champion, trailed fellow South Korean Park by a shot ahead of the final round on Mission Hills' Blackstone Course.
Park led by three strokes when Ryu double-bogeyed the par-4 seventh, sending her tee shot into black lava rocks and taking a penalty drop. The 24-year-old Ryu responded with three birdies in four holes from the ninth. Both Ryu and Park failed birdie attempts on the 18th before Ryu tapped in a par putt from two feet to win. Ryu closed with a 4-under-par 69 at Mission Hills in Hainan, denying Park (71) her chance at back-to-back victories.
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