Ruoning Yin cruises to victory in Shanghai for fourth LPGA title

Ruoning Yin began her day nicely and ended it even higher.

With a birdie on the primary gap of her remaining spherical on the Buick LPGA Shanghai, the Chinese language golfer was sizzling from the get-go on and by no means cooled off, capturing an 8-under 64 and cruising to victory in her home country. Her scorching spherical, which included birdies on six of her final eight holes, pushed her to 25-under for the occasion, six pictures away from runner-up Mao Saigo of Japan, who started the day with a one-shot lead. Sei Younger Kim of South Korea completed in a tie with Saigo in second place.

The win was the fourth profession LPGA title for the 22-year-old Yin, a precocious expertise who captured the 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and briefly held the highest spot within the Ladies’s World Golf Rankings on the finish of final season.

She was not the one golfer to go low on Sunday. On a tender and susceptible Qizhong Backyard Golf Membership, Hye-Jin Choi of South Korea carded a 62, the low spherical of the match, to complete fifth, whereas Yealimi Noh of the USA posted a 67 to position fourth, the very best displaying for an American within the subject.

Nelly Korda, the top-ranked participant within the ladies’s sport, didn’t make the journey to Shanghai. Neither did one other large identify, Lydia Ko. Each Korda and Ko are slated to be again in motion subsequent week on the BMW Women Championship, in South Korea.

Josh Sens

Golf.com Editor

A golf, meals and journey author, Josh Sens has been a GOLF Journal contributor since 2004 and now contributes throughout all of GOLF’s platforms. His work has been anthologized in The Finest American Sportswriting. He’s additionally the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, of Are We Having Any Enjoyable But: the Cooking and Partying Handbook.