Nelly Korda clinches maiden LPGA title in Taiwan

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American Nelly Korda scored a 4-under-par 68 to win the Taiwan Championship by two strokes for her first LPGA Tour title on Sunday.

Korda, who scored an eagle on the par 5 sixth hole and two birdies on the fourth and tenth, finished with 13 under 275 total – two strokes ahead of Minjee Lee, who shot a 6 under 66.

“Truthfully, I cannot put it into words,” Korda said. “It still hasn’t hit. It’s definitely one of the best days of my entire life. I can finally check that off of my list, winning an LPGA event, something that I dreamed of ever since I started playing.”

Next at 10 under, was Australian Ryann O’Toole (67), while tied for fourth was Spain’s Carlota Ciganda (69) and American Megan Khang (71).

Third round co-leader and local favourite Wei-Ling Hsu, scored five bogeys in her round of 74 to finish in sixth place along with Lydia Ko (72) of New Zealand.

Leading LPGA scores after the final round:

1 Nelly Korda -13 67 71 69 68 – 275

2 Minjee Lee -11 73 69 69 66 – 277

3 Ryann O’Toole -10 71 69 71 67 – 278

T4 Carlota Ciganda -8 69 72 70 69 – 280
T4 Megan Khang -8 69 70 70 71

T6 Lydia Ko -7 71 66 72 72 – 281
T6 Wei-Ling Hsu -7 68 67 72 74

T8 Jin Young Ko -6 71 69 69 73 – 282
T8 Bronte Law -6 70 70 69 73

T10 Amy Yang -5 71 71 70 71 – 283
T10 Annie Park -5 70 70 70 73

T12 Nasa Hataoka -3 75 71 71 68 – 285
T12 Sung Hyun Park -3 71 76 68 70
T12 Mirim Lee -3 71 67 73 74
T12 Jodi Ewart Shadoff -3 65 71 73 76

T16 Teresa Lu -2 74 70 71 71 – 286
T16 Eun-Hee Ji -2 70 72 73 71