Gutsy victory for Kim, familiar finish for Lewis
Wind forces Farmers Insurance Open to finish on Monday
Hyo Joo Kim won the season-opening Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic on Sunday, relegating Stacy Lewis to yet another second-place finish. Kim rebounded from a bogey on the 16th hole with a nine-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th and closed with a par for a two-stroke victory over Lewis, 2015 champion Sei Young Kim and Anna Nordqvist.
“Really happy that I won here because it’s just like a really good start to the season,” Hyo Joo Kim said through fellow South Korean player Minjee Lee. “Good vibes.”
Hyo Joo Kim shot a 7-under 66 to finish at 18-under 274. The 20-yearold player has three LPGA Tour victories, also winning the 2014 Evian Championship and 2015 Founders Cup. She has nine victories on the Korean LPGA.
Needing an eagle to force a playoff, Lewis parred the par-5 18th for a 68. She has nine runner-up finishes in a 40-event victory drought that dates to June 2014.
Sei Young Kim also shot a 68, and Nordqvist had a 69.
Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., had five birdies but double-bogeyed 15 for a round of 3-under 70, leaving her in a tie for 21st.
Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sher- brooke, Que., finished tied for 31st at seven under after a final round of 1-under 72, while Hamilton’s Alena Sharp tied for 38th at six under after a round of 70. FARMERS INSURANCE OPEN: Brandt Snedeker closed with one of his best rounds ever Sunday and now has to wait to see if it’s enough to win the Farmers Insurance Open.
Snedeker was the only player to finish at par or better in the raging wind and rain at Torrey Pines. He closed with a 3-under 69, going the final 17 holes without a bogey.
The gusts became so severe that the South Course was evacuated not long after Snedeker finished his round.
The final round will resume Monday morning. SINGAPORE OPEN: Jordan Spieth finished runner-up at the Singapore Open on Monday after South Korea’s Song Young-han held his nerve to beat the fast-finishing world No. 1 by a single stroke.
Among 13 players back at the break of dawn after Sunday’s final round was suspended because of a thunderstorm, Spieth sank a five-foot birdie putt on the last hole, where he had marked his ball overnight, completing a final round of 5-under 66 to finish at 11-under 273.