A shattered Minjee Lee is promising to get better after a remarkable collapse enabled Japanese star Yuko Saso to storm to females’s United States Open magnificence in Pennsylvania. After beginning the last round in a three-way share of the lead, then rising 3 shots clear, Lee closed with a stunning eight-over 78 as Saso (68) produced a late birdie blitz to romp to a historical three-stroke victory at Lancaster Country Club. Saso completed with a four-under-par overall of 276, with compatriot Hinako Shibuno (72) runner-up and finishing the first-ever Japanese quinella at a significant– guys’s or females’s. Americans Andrea Lee (75) and Ally Ewing (66) shared 3rd at even par for the champion. After taking a two-shot lead into the back 9, Lee ultimately ended up in a tie for ninth at 3 over. The 27-year-old’s hopes of signing up with Australian golf royalty with a 3rd profession significant champion basically died in a squashing 15-minute stretch mid-round. Even after acquiring a 3rd bogey of the day on the ninth, Lee headed to the back 9 2 shots in front. A careless three-putt bogey on the 10th sped up a stunning disaster. Minjee takes a drop on the 14th. Credit: AP Lee soaked her tee shot into the water en path to a double-bogey 5 on the devilish par-three 12th that brought world No. 1 Nelly Korda unstuck on Thursday. With Saso, playing in the penultimate group behind Lee, publishing birdies on 12 and 13, the competition all of a sudden switched on a five-shot swing. From 2 behind, where she began on Sunday, Saso was 3 in front of Lee and the rest of the chasing pack. Another double bogey from Lee on No. 14 ended all hope of the West Australian signing up with the excellent Karrie Webb as a double United States Open champ. “I began great. Seemed like I struck it respectable; simply missed out on a number of putts for birdie early and after that I type of exploded from there,” Lee stated. A commanding four-shot winner 2 years back at Pine Needles, Lee now should get the pieces from Sunday’s wreckage before the season’s last 3 significant champions and Paris Olympics, which all been available in the next 3 months. Yuka Saso after winning the ladies’s United States Open. Credit: Getty “I did a great deal of advantages however clearly didn’t play effectively today and I’m dissatisfied that I didn’t do much better,” she stated. “Obviously, I’m going to acknowledge my dissatisfaction and after that return more powerful, take the positives out of the week. “It’s a great deal of pressure on the last day, so it wasn’t my finest efficiency, however I’m sure there will be numerous much better efficiencies ahead.” In plain contrast, Lee’s Games colleague Hannah Green ended up with a flurry to share 16th at 5 over following a final-round 66, the equivalent low round of the week. The spoils– and ladies’s golf’s greatest winner’s cheque of $US2.4 million ($3.6 million)– belong to Saso, who herself ended up being a two-time United States Open champ. The Philippines-born star likewise won in 2021 at the well known Olympic Club in San Francisco. At 22 years, 11 months and 13 days, Saso is the youngest gamer to win 2 females’s United States Open crowns– and the very first to land 2 majors representing various countries. Packing “It feels excellent,” Saso stated. “Winning in 2021 representing the Philippines, I seem like I had the ability to return to my mum. “And this year, I had the ability to represent Japan and I believe I had the ability to return to my father. I’m extremely pleased that I was able to do it. It’s simply a fantastic sensation that I had the ability to return to my moms and dads.” Saso’s most current victory looked not likely when she four-putted for double bogey on the 6th to slip 4 strikes behind Lee. Then, relatively in the blink of an eye, whatever altered as Lee, making every effort to sign up with Webb, Jan Stephenson and Peter Thomson as just the 4th Australian to win more than 2 majors, totally unwinded down the stretch. AAP
United States Women’s Open LIVE: Australia’s Minjee Lee on hunt for history – The Age
