Lauren Coughlin recorded a 3-under-par 69 to win the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open via 4 strokes on Sunday in Ayrshire, Scotland.
With a 15-under 273 for the event, Coughlin were given her 2nd occupation LPGA win in 21 days, following her maiden victory ultimate month on the CPKC Girls’s Open.
The 54-hole chief, Coughlin bogeyed two of the primary 4 holes to open the door for Megan Khang, who was once in 2nd position and one shot again when the day started. Khang pulled even however could not take benefit, spreading 3 bogeys and a birdie all the way through her spherical to complete at 74 and fall to a tie for 3rd at 9 below.
Germany’s Esther Henseleit, the silver medalist on the Paris Olympics, was once a runner-up once more. After enjoying at par at the entrance 9, Henseleit (70) had 3 birdies and a bogey at the again 9 to slim the distance with Coughlin however could not catch her.
After her gradual begin to her spherical, Coughlin added 5 birdies — together with at Nos. 14, 15 and 18 — to cruise to the win. She single-putted the overall seven holes, successfully finishing the desires of her competition.
“I used to be, in fact, now not proud of it,” Coughlin stated of her get started. “However I imply, I knew it was once enjoying tremendous difficult and that bogeys have been unavoidable. I had performed an attractive superior activity the former two rounds now not making any.
“So I knew that it was once superb to make a pair however I may just nonetheless cross make some birdies coming in.”
Coughlin, raised in Virginia, stated her fresh luck at the LPGA Excursion is “fantastic.”
“I feel if you happen to would have advised me (of her long run wins) — I imply let by myself firstly of this yr however more than likely the start of ultimate yr — I more than likely would not imagine you in any respect that that is what I have simply performed,” she stated. “However it is fantastic and I feel it simply displays how laborious I have labored to get right here and it is … wonderful.”
Tied with Khang after the primary 4 holes, Coughlin hit a birdie on No. 5 and alternatively on No. 7. She additionally jumbled together some key par saves and was once happy with how she controlled play within the windy prerequisites.
“I performed tremendous cast all 4 days and simply more or less attempted to let the wind do what it did and now not attempt to struggle it an excessive amount of,” Coughlin stated. “I used to be ready to more or less simply hit the ball the place I used to be seeking to more often than not and great distance after which make some putts.”
Tying Khang for 3rd was once Japan’s Ayaka Furue, who shot a 68 to take a seat six strokes off the lead. England’s Charley Hull was once by myself in 5th after a spherical of 73, and Australian Gabriela Ruffels (68) and South Korean Jin Younger Ko tied for 6th, 8 shot backs at 7 below.
“I performed lovely cast all week,” Hull stated. “Most probably nowadays wasn’t fairly the day I used to be in search of. I more or less were given off to a gradual get started, however I used to be lovely proud of how I hit it the primary 3 rounds. It was once just a little tough nowadays. I felt just like the vegetables have been gradual into the wind and I could not get my tempo.”
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