In an absurd ending, which filled Chevron’s resolution with drama and endorsed that ending with the early tee so that the par 5 protected by a lake would seduce the players to try to catch it with two strokes or suffer, the Hawaiian Lilia Vu, from 25 years old, he broke down the door of fame.
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With very minor victories until last February when she won the LPGA scoring tournament in Thailand, Vu was the unexpected winner after putting in a great finishing job with two birdies on the last two holes to bring her score to 10 under par.
And from there, everything else was collecting failures from the rivals. First it was the Thai Atthaya Thitikul. She teeed off the 18th hole also at -10 and hit a double bogey after hitting the third shot into the water. Then it was Angel Yin, who had dominated all of Sunday, who botched it.
First with two bogeys in the regular tournament on 16 and 17, which forced him to a good birdie from two meters on 18, to reach the playoffs. Then, in the tiebreaker, she when she threw her into the lake with the second blow by two spans.
This time the miracle that on Saturday had taken a ball out of the pond on the 12th hole in an almost paranormal phenomenon did not occur. Television commentators joked that she had bounced off a turtle. To say something. Even so, Vu, 12th in the world ranking before winning, already in the top 10, had to hole a four-meter putt downhill to win her first big one and give Yin no chance of prolonging the outcome.
Her 68 on Sunday had merit. She played the decisive holes as Carlota Ciganda should have done. It came out on a cold Sunday, some wind, spicy flags, and the Spanish, with a winter hat, played nine first holes of merit, as a golfer with the condition of fighting for one of the notches that are still missing in the record of sport in this country.
: a great female golfer. With very sharp irons, she took out three birdies, couldn’t avoid a bogey, and got three shots behind her head, which was still in the first quarter of the course. She was the picture of the ultimate gamer, a huge competitor.
She was in the place where her talent should be more often. The setting was also prone, The Club, Jack Nicklaus‘ tour in The Woodlands (Texas), surrounded by luxurious homes, was already very long but time, which slowed down the flight of the ball, made it even more so.
Whoever didn’t hit hard, and more as the flags were, unfortunately, she would not enter the bouquet of favorites. Carlota’s dream vanished on hole 10 where she has committed four bogeys this week. “Between 10 and 11 they have killed me this week, I think I have done +7”, she told the organization.
On previous occasions it did not have such an impact on his game, but this time it was the origin of nine irregular holes, of failures with the irons, only remedied with the eagle on hole 13, a par 5 that was very long on Sunday because the hole They were placed at the bottom of the green on the right, as if it were a corner flag.
The Navarrese took out an anthological chip that cheered her up momentarily. That and the birdie on 17 softened the five bogeys in that section a bit. And despite the bad weather, Vu she continued with the tradition inherited from Nabisco, when it was played at Rancho Mirage, and she ended up bathed. She didn’t feel cold, she felt happiness.
