Korda wins LPGA season opener
Jessica Korda won the seasonopening Bahamas LPGA Classic on Sunday for her second tour title, holing a six-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat Stacy Lewis by a stroke.
The 20-year-old Korda closed with a 7-under 66 for a 19-under 273 total on Atlantis Resort’s Ocean Club course. Lewis parred the final four holes — two of them par 5s — for a 66.
Korda tied Lewis for the lead with a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th, then got up and down for birdie on the par-5 18th. Korda’s 4-iron approach on 18 scampered through the green to the fringe just short of the grandstand. With an official and a TV announcer holding up cords that would have interfered with her stroke, she putted to set up the winning birdie.
Korda also won the 2012 Women’s Australian Open.