EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Ayaka Furue of Japan made a late cost to win the Amundi Evian Championship with an eagle on the final gap to clinch her first main title on Sunday.
The 24-year-old Furue held her nerve with one other medical putt, having made three birdies within the earlier 4 holes to complete on 19 underneath total after posting a 6-under 65.
Furue positioned one stroke forward of Australian Stephanie Kyriacou (67), the in a single day chief, and two forward of Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit — who made an outstanding 63 to maneuver into competition for her second main.
American Lauren Coughlin (69) completed 4 photographs behind Furue in fourth place.
Heading to the 18th gap Furue and Kyriacou had been stage at 17 underneath with Tavatanakit, who was already within the clubhouse.
Furue teed off and located the golf green however Kyriacou’s shot swerved left into the tough.
Furue discovered the inexperienced together with her second shot, giving her a championship shot and, moments later, she was doused with champagne. Her earlier greatest efficiency at a significant was fourth at Evian in 2021.
“I’m so honored to be the winner,” Furue mentioned. “I didn’t consider that I may get a significant win, so I’m so blissful proper now.”
It was solely her second title on the LPGA Tour, the opposite coming on the Girls’s Scottish Open in 2022 when she rallied from a four-shot deficit.
The 23-year-old Kyriacou, who birdied the 18th, additionally secured her greatest consequence. Her earlier greatest was a tie for seventh on the AIG Girls’s Open two years in the past.
“It sucks to not maintain the trophy, however in case you’d informed me I might come second at first of the week, I might’ve been blissful,” Kyriacou mentioned. “Clearly loads of stuff labored effectively for me this week, so simply making an attempt to maintain the identical mindset going ahead and hopefully I can win.”
Tavatanakit received a significant on the ANA Inspiration in 2021.
In a single day, Kyriacou was one stroke forward of Furue and Coughlin, who tied for third on the Chevron Championship for her greatest main consequence.
Coughlin birdied the ninth gap to maneuver to 17 underneath and take a one-stroke lead from Kyriacou, who missed a simple birdie likelihood after showing to be bothered by an insect.
However Kyriacou birdied the fifteenth to maneuver stage with Coughlin. Furue was gaining momentum now, sinking lengthy back-to-back birdies from the sting of the inexperienced on the 14th and fifteenth holes.
“I felt like I needed to play aggressively right now, however after I began enjoying, I used to be just a little bit annoyed as a result of I wasn’t getting many birdies,” Furue mentioned. “After the fifteenth gap, I gained confidence and that was actually good for me.”
Her tee shot to the par-3 sixteenth gap gave her one other birdie likelihood and he or she took it to remain one behind Kyriacou, who additionally birdied, and Tavatanakit, who eagled the 18th.
“I saved giving myself loads of alternatives,” Tavatanakit mentioned. “I informed myself to simply belief myself and really feel it.”
Kyriacou and Coughlin struggled on the method to the inexperienced on the 311-yard seventeenth gap and each bogeyed.
Furue virtually made one other sensible lengthy birdie, which might have given her the outright lead. As an alternative she went to the ultimate gap stage with Kyriacou and Tavatanakit.
Additionally, top-ranked American Nelly Korda tied for twenty sixth in a bunch together with 2018 champion Angela Stanford of america and 2022 winner Brooke Henderson of Canada.
