the American Lilia Vu achieved the second ‘major’ of the year and his career this Sunday by winning the British tomorrowfifth and last major of the current women’s golf season and was played starting last Thursday at the Walton Heath club in Tadworth (United Kingdom).
Vu, 25, opened his ‘majors’ box on April 23 by winning the first on the course, the Chevron Championship. As of this Sunday, he joins the list of two-time great champions. She has three LPGA titles in her professional career, all in 2023 and two of them ‘majors’.
The Californian golfer, whose family comes from Vietnamese, is a professional since 2019, sixth in the world and became fourth, took the lead on Saturday, tied with the Englishman Charley Hull, by taking advantage of the slump of Also The American Ally Ewing, who leads the first two days and reaches the middle of the tournament with a margin of five strokes.
This Sunday, Lilia Vu took some time to establish herself in the lead, as the local heroine began to lose touch. As Lilia Vu showed strength, Charley Hull chained two consecutive bogeys on holes 3 and 4.
In a day of solid play with just one miss (bogey on 15) and up to six birdies, Lilia Vu, whose full name is Lilia Kha-Tu Du Vu and whose grandfather built a boat to escape the Vietnam War with his family, he clinched the win with a 14-under 274 total shots and four rounds of 72, 68, 67 and 67.
In the end, he was six ahead of Charley Hull, runner-up and closed the tournament with a 73 (+1), and seven ahead of South Korean Jiyai Shin, just third. South Koreans Amy Yang and Hyo Joo Kim also finished with eight shots. And nine, tied for sixth place, three Americans: Allisen Corpuz, Ally Ewing and Angel Yin.
World number one, American Nelly Korda, carded a round of 74 (+2) on Sunday and finished tied for eleventh with four other players, at 2 under throughout a tournament in which she was the only won the field on Saturday. with 69 (-3).
The only Spaniard to make the cut, Malaga novice Julia López, 20 years old and current individual European champion, finished her first ‘major’ with a 300 total impact (+12) and four laps of 73, 72, 76 and , this Sunday, 79 with three birdies for five bogeys and a five-time bogey on the 14th.
Source: La Verdad
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