Inbee Park locks up third-straight Women’s PGA Championship
Inbee Park won the first Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday at Westchester Country Club on Long Island, cruising to five-shot win over Sei Young Kim. Park shot 5-under 68 in the final round to pull away from the field. En route to her sixth major title, Park didn’t make a bogey in the final 56 holes. Stunning.
For Park, this is just picking up where the history of the LPGA Championship stopped. The LPGA Championship became the Women’s PGA Championship this year, the result of a collaboration between the PGA of America and the LPGA. Park had won the final two LPGA Championships in Rochester, N.Y., both in playoffs.
With the win, Park is now the second player in championship’s 61-year history to win the event in three straight years, joining Annika Sorenstam as the only players with the distinction.