Tseng claims narrow win
Taiwan’s Yani Tseng earned her second LPGA Tour win with a one-shot victory at the Corning Classic.
Taiwan’s Yani Tseng earned her second LPGA Tour win with a one-shot victory at the Corning Classic on Sunday night.
Last season’s rookie of the year, who won the LPGA championship as a teenager 11 months ago, held her nerve after surging to the top of the leaderboard in the closing stages at the Corning Country Club.
A five-under-par round of 67 – following up her sparkling 62 on Saturday – was enough for a 21 under total, one ahead of Paula Creamer and Soo-Yun Kang.
Creamer watched the final holes from the clubhouse after carding a second successive round of 65 while Kang looked set to force a play-off only for a bogey on the 18th, when she missed a short put, cost her dear.
Mika Miyazato could only manage a 70 to finish on 19 under while Song-Hee Kim, Ai Miyazato, Sandra Gal and Vicky Hurst were tied on 17 under.
ALL THE FINAL ROUND SCORES
(USA unless stated, par 72):
267 Ya-Ni Tseng (Kor) 68 70 62 67
268 Paula Creamer 66 72 65 65, Soo-Yun Kang (Kor) 65 69 65 69
269 Mika Miyazato (Jpn) 70 67 62 70
271 Vicky Hurst 70 69 63 69, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 69 70 64 68, Song-Hee Kim (Kor) 67 68 69 67, Sandra Gal (Ger) 65 69 68 69
272 Seon Hwa Lee (Kor) 67 67 68 70, Mikaela Parmlid (Swe) 67 67 68 70, Jimin Jeong 66 69 69 68, Angela Stanford 69 69 67 67, Karine Icher (Fra) 64 66 74 68
273 Lindsey Wright (Aus) 67 69 67 70, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 67 68 68 70, Helen Alfredsson (Swe) 67 69 68 69, Meredith Duncan 69 67 68 69, Mi-Hyun Kim (Kor) 69 67 68 69, Natalie Gulbis 68 70 66 69, Hee Young Park (Kor) 64 73 69 67, Katherine Hull (Aus) 68 69 65 71
274 Ji-Yai Shin (Kor) 68 71 67 68, In Kyung Kim (Kor) 69 69 65 71, Hee-Won Han (Kor) 65 67 71 71, Cristie Kerr 68 71 65 70
275 Minea Blomqvist (Fin) 65 70 66 74, Michelle Wie 73 67 68 67, Na Yeon Choi (Kor) 66 68 68 73, Meena Lee (Kor) 67 72 66 70, Momoko Ueda (Jpn) 72 67 69 67, Brittany Lang 70 68 68 69
276 Wendy Doolan (Aus) 70 67 70 69, Ji-Young Oh (Kor) 70 67 69 70, Wendy Ward 72 69 65 70, Stacy Lewis 71 69 69 67
277 Sun Young Yoo (Kor) 72 68 72 65, Morgan Pressel 66 72 69 70, Anna Grzebien 70 71 66 70
278 Beth Bader 70 66 72 70, Amy Hung (Tha) 68 71 72 67, Sarah Kemp (Aus) 66 68 71 73, Nicole Castrale 66 71 71 70, Marcy Hart 69 69 73 67
279 Karen Stupples (Eng) 73 68 65 73, Becky Morgan (Wal) 69 69 67 74, Se Ri Pak (Kor) 73 66 69 71, Alena Sharp (Can) 69 71 73 66, Michele Redman 72 66 71 70
280 Jee Young Lee (Kor) 72 67 72 69, Stacy Prammanasudh 69 70 70 71, Anna Nordqvist 69 72 72 67, Amy Yang 68 72 69 71, Haeji Kang (Kor) 68 73 69 70, Lorie Kane (Can) 70 66 73 71, Reilley Rankin 67 68 75 70
281 Teresa Lu (Tai) 71 70 68 72, Jimin Kang (Kor) 69 71 70 71, Jamie Hullett 69 70 70 72, Sarah Lee 65 73 72 71, Allison Hanna-Williams 70 71 70 70, Janice Moodie (Sco) 69 70 68 74
282 Brittany Lincicome 70 71 70 71
283 Il Mi Chung (Kor) 67 71 73 72, Shanshan Feng (Chn) 69 72 71 71
284 Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 69 71 73 71, Eunjung Yi (Kor) 71 69 69 75, Pat Hurst 69 69 72 74
285 Sung Ah Yim (Kor) 70 71 71 73, Russy Gulyanamitta (Tha) 70 70 71 74, Kris Tamulis 69 70 72 74
287 Eva Dahllof (Swe) 72 69 72 74
288 Na On Min (Jpn) 67 73 72 76
289 Maria Hjorth (Swe) 73 68 76 72
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