(Reuters) – Kim Hyo-joo received the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship at Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Membership on Sunday as Australian Hannah Inexperienced bogeyed the final two holes handy the South Korean victory within the $1.6 million match.

Kim’s eight-under par closing spherical of 64 earned her the title with a 4 spherical rating of 17-under par, though it was Inexperienced’s failure to see out the final two holes in regulation that finally gave the 25-year-old first place.

Inexperienced, who had been third going into the ultimate spherical, saved herself in competition with a pair of birdies on the entrance 9 earlier than hitting an eagle on the 14th that pulled her degree with Kim.

A 15-foot putt on the sixteenth secured one other birdie that took the 2019 Ladies’s PGA Championship winner into the lead, just for her to drop again right into a tie with Kim when she three-putted the seventeenth gap.

There was worse to return for the Australian on the closing gap when, needing a par to take proceedings right into a two-hole playoff, she despatched her method off the again fringe of the inexperienced.

Her first try raced effectively previous the outlet and, after taking two makes an attempt to sink the ball from there, Inexperienced slipped again into second handy Kim her first title on the LPGA Tour in 5 years.

In a single day chief Lin Xiyu ended up in a share for second with Inexperienced having initially struggled to maintain tempo with the surges on the prime of the leaderboard.

A two-under par spherical of 70 noticed her end degree on 16-under par with Inexperienced, one shot forward of Thailand’s Patty Tavanatankit.

The ANA Inspiration winner, who was making her first-ever look on the match in her rookie season as knowledgeable, hit a seven-under par spherical of 65 to complete in fourth on 15-under alongside Inbee Park.