Linn Grant of Sweden closed with a five-under 65 for a three-shot victory in The Annika.
She had a lot management of her sport that she performed 52 consecutive holes and not using a bogey, a streak that ended on the ultimate gap on Sunday when it now not mattered.
It was Grant’s second LPGA title, and the second time she obtained a trophy from Swedish nice and event host Annika Sorenstam. Grant gained the Scandinavian Combined in Sweden when Sorenstam and Henrik Stenson have been co-hosts.
“You made this course look simple. It isn’t simple,” Sorenstam instructed her on the 18th inexperienced.
It will need to have felt that method to Grant, who was by no means beneath a lot stress. She completed at 19-under 261 and had an opportunity to set the event report till a bogey on the ultimate gap, her first one since her opening gap on Friday.
Jennifer Kupcho birdied the primary gap to tie for the lead, however solely briefly. Grant birdied the subsequent gap and by no means trailed once more. The Swede needed to make a 15-foot birdie putt to remain one forward via 5 holes, after which she seized management on the par-three ninth.
Kupcho made her second bogey of the entrance 9, and Grant rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt to increase the result in three photographs. Nobody acquired any nearer the remainder of the best way.
Kupcho additionally closed with a 65.
“I am glad she was enjoying properly as a result of I feel that basically pushed me to play higher,” Grant mentioned. “And general, I simply had the considered whoever wins goes to have a extremely good job.”
Gaby Lopez of Mexico birdied 4 of her final six holes for a 65 to complete third.
England’s Charley Hull completed joint fourth on 14 beneath.
Grant was working out of time to increase her streak of profitable annually someplace on the earth relationship to 2020, when she was nonetheless an beginner and gained twice on the Nordic Golf League. She has gained titles on the LPGA, Women European Tour, LET Entry Sequence, Women Sunshine Tour, Nordic Golf League and even the European Tour, which co-sanctioned the Scandinavian Combined.
Defending champion Nelly Korda, a three-time winner at Pelican Golf Membership, began six photographs behind and could not maintain tempo. She closed with a 69 and tied for fifteenth.
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