China’s Ruoning Yin knew she wanted a birdie on 18 to win the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship. She sunk the 10-foot putt like a veteran. Yin signed for a bogey-free 67 on Sunday to win by one stroke over Yuka Saso.

“After the tee shot, I noticed Yuka make an unimaginable birdie right here, and now I’ve to make birdie at this gap to win the championship — I’m glad I did it,” Yin mentioned in the course of the trophy ceremony.

Yin made six pars to start out her spherical earlier than her first birdie fell a the par-5 seventh. She made 5 extra pars earlier than she had back-to-back birdies drop on the par-4 thirteenth and 14th holes. These two birdies received her to 7-under within the event with 4 holes to play.

At the moment, Rose Zhang and a number of others have been at or close to the identical mark.

Three extra pars saved her in management, and it was as much as her to win the event on the 18th.

She grew to become the second-ever Chinese language participant on the LPGA Tour to win a significant championship, per the LPGA press launch. Shanshan Feng was the primary 11 years in the past when she gained the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship.

Yin talked about how a lot her household meant to her and helped get her thus far. You possibly can see her get somewhat emotional within the second. This win was clearly essential for her.

She beat Saso, who gained the 2021 U.S. Girls’s Open. Yin additionally beat out Zhang, the rookie phenom who gained in her LPGA debut earlier in June on the Mizuho Americas Open. Zhang completed T8 in her main debut.

This win marks Yin’s first main championship and her second LPGA victory. The 20-year-old additionally gained The DIO Implant LA Open in March.