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China’s Miranda Wang lost the lead to the No 1 player in women’s golf and then delivered the clutch shots over the final three holes for a two-under 70 and a one-shot victory over Jeeno Thitikul on Sunday in the FM Championship in Norton, Massachusetts, for her first LPGA title.
Wang, 26, finished with a 20-under-par 268 to win the US$615,000 championship cheque. She was feted with a champagne shower on the 18th green.
The 2019 Duke graduate became the seventh LPGA rookie to win this year, extending a remarkable streak of no multiple winners through the tour’s first 23 tournaments of the year.
Thitikul, who took over the top ranking from Nelly Korda three weeks ago, was poised to end that streak and ruin Wang’s hopes when the Thai hit a wedge to two feet at No 9 for her fifth birdie to go out in 31 on the TPC Boston and tie for the lead. She shot 67.
Thitikul bogeyed the 17th hole, and Wang made a six-foot birdie on the 17th to regain the lead and win it with a par.

“It’s a dream come true,” Wang said. “Winning LPGA has been my dream since actually since Day 1 of my golf … I started playing golf because, when I was eight years old, I was watching LPGA tournament on TV. I was, like, ‘Oh, that is what I want to do and I want to be on this tour. I want to win out there’. So I finally did this. Very proud of myself.”
Wang had to work hard on Sunday because Thitikul, who started the day four shots behind, was hot from the start. She birdied the first hole to trigger a five-under 31 on the front nine as she drilled irons within tap-in range at numbers five and nine.
Thitikul made the turn at 19 under while Wang posted three birdies and one bogey to make the turn at 20 under. Wang then strung together five pars before bogeying No 15. Meanwhile, Thitikul birdied No 12 to jump into the lead.
The 22-year-old Thitikul kept the lead until bogeying the 17th. She finished with a 67.
“Just take a really positive [lesson from today],” Thitikul said. “Especially the final round that I have, especially the front nine that I have ... [My] final round wasn’t that good as the first couple of rounds, but I just proved to myself that today I can go low on the final round as well.”
South Korea’s Sei Young Kim played in the final pairing with Wang, fashioned a two-under 70 to finish three shots behind Wang. Andrea Lee also posted a final-round 70 to finish fourth, four shots behind the champion.
South Korea’s Jin Hee Im started the day in a tie for 37th place, but she soared all the way to fifth on Sunday on the strength of a record-tying 10-under 62. She birdied nine of the first 12 holes to climb to 14-under, but posted five straight pars before closing with her 10th birdie of the day.


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