Yani Tseng wins Sunday’s LPGA State Farm Classic in Springfield, Illinois, shooting 4 under 68. It was Tseng’s second LPGA Tour victory this season and her fifth victory world-wide. The 22-year-old also won the LPGA’s season-opening Honda LPGA Thailand.
The overnight leader at 17-under-par, Tseng had a one-shot lead over Mindy Kim when she teed off for the final round. Tseng got off to a hot start, making a birdie on the first hole. She would then make five consecutive pars while Kim recorded back-to-back birdies on No. 5 and 6 to pull even with Tseng at 18-under-par. But after Kim’s bogey on No. 7 gave Tseng the outright lead back, she continued to pull away from the field. Birdies on eight and 13 moved Tseng to 20-under-par. She sealed her seventh-career LPGA Tour victory with a birdie on 17 to finish at 21-under-par 267.
For Tseng, this is the third time in her career that she’s captured a victory after entering the final round as the leader or co-leader.
Cristie Kerr fell three strokes behind Tseng despite shooting a 5-under 67 in the final round. And Brittany Lincicome finished in a tie for third with Paula Creamer at 16-under-par, after having won the ShopRite LPGA Classic weeks ago.