Ayaka Furue captured her first main title in grand type, benefitting from a scorching end to win the Evian Championship on Sunday at Evian-les-Bains, France.
Furue overcame a three-stroke deficit with 5 holes to play by capturing 5-under throughout that stretch, capped by an eagle on No. 18 at Evian Resort Membership. The 24-year-old Japan native carded a 6-under-par 65 on Sunday to complete at 19-under for the event, one shot higher than third-round chief Stephanie Kyriacou of Australia.
Furue pocketed $1.2 million after capturing her second profession LPGA victory. She additionally gained the 2022 Girls’s Scottish Open.
Furue joined Chako Huguchi (1977 Girls’s PGA Championship), Hinako Shibuno (2019 AIG Girls’s Open) and Yuka Saso (2024 U.S. Girls’s Open) because the lone golfers from Japan to win a girls’s main championship.
“Breathtaking, like unimaginable and I am so speechless,” stated Furue, who had an eagle and 6 birdies in addition to two bogeys on Sunday.
Kyriacou (67 on Sunday) held a one-stroke lead getting into the seventeenth gap earlier than a chip shot went awry and led to a bogey, dropping her right into a three-way tie with Furue and Patty Tavatanakit (63) of Thailand. Tavatanakit, who had an eagle on No. 18 to associate with six birdies, already had completed her spherical by this time.
Furue discovered the inexperienced on her second shot on No. 18, placing her in place to win the event.
“First shot landed on first minimize so it was slightly bit troublesome to hit on the inexperienced,” Furue stated. “I simply made that shot after which received an eagle putt in order that was actually good for me.”
Kyriacou, 23, made a birdie on the ultimate gap to complete in second place, marking the perfect results of her skilled profession. She completed Sunday with 5 birdies towards one bogey.
“Yeah, it was week,” Kyriacou stated. “Plenty of positives to remove. I performed nice all week. Yeah, I do not know, it was week. (It stinks) to not maintain the trophy. When you advised me I’d come second initially of the week I’d’ve been comfortable.”
Tavatanakit completed in third place, two pictures in again of Furue.
“A variety of positives to remove for certain,” Tavatanakit stated. “I really feel like, I do not know, initially of the week I did not even take into consideration profitable or something. I simply felt actually good about my sport. I actually trusted my course of and I loved ever little bit of it, even the not-so-good ones.”
Lauren Coughlin was performed in by back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17. She shot a 69 on Sunday to finish up in fourth place at 15-under for the event, two strokes forward of South Korean Hae Ran Ryu (65).
–Area Stage Media
