IRVINE, Scotland — Lauren Coughlin pulled away with very good placing and closed with a 3-under 69 to win the Ladies’s Scottish Open on Sunday, her second LPGA title this summer time, to safe a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup staff.
Coughlin, who gained the CPKC Ladies’s Open in Canada three weeks in the past, recovered from a pair of early bogeys to maneuver forward of Megan Khang on the entrance 9 and Esther Henseleit of Germany on the again 9 at Dundonald Hyperlinks.
The 31-year-old American one-putted the ultimate seven holes on a cold day alongside the Ayrshire Coast, none extra devastating to Henseleit than the sixteenth gap. Coughlin was main by three and in hassle in a bunker. She blasted out to twenty toes and holed the par putt.
She additionally saved par from simply off the inexperienced on the seventeenth, after which polished off her efficiency with a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th.
Coughlin completed at 15-under 273, 4 pictures forward of Henseleit (70). It was the second straight runner-up end for Henseleit, coming off her Olympic silver medal in th Paris Video games.
Coughlin, who performed faculty golf at Virginia, earned sufficient Solheim Cup factors to lock up one of many six computerized spots for the Sept. 13-15 matches on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership in Gainesville, Virginia. It is going to be her Solheim Cup debut.
Khang was tied with Coughlin by means of 5 holes, however didn’t make one other birdie and had two bogeys to complete with a 74. The American tied for third with Ayaka Furue of Japan, who shot a 68.
Charley Hull of England began with two bogeys in three holes and was by no means an element, closing with a 73 to complete fifth, seven pictures behind.
The ladies now head throughout Scotland for the AIG Ladies’s Open at St. Andrews, the ultimate main championship of the 12 months.
