RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Sun Young Yoo won the Kraft Nabisco Championship with an 18-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole Sunday, earning her first major title after I.K. Kim missed a 1-foot putt on the final hole of regulation.
Yoo won the LPGA Tour’s first major of the season with steady play down the stretch, but she got to make the traditional leap into Poppie’s Pond only after Kim’s mind-boggling miss on the same green minutes earlier.
Yoo and Kim finished at 9 under, but Kim could have all but wrapped up her first major with the tap-in putt.
Kim might have struck the ball oddly, and it toured the lip of the cup before coming out on the same side it entered.
