Mao Saigo’s Chevron celebration took a sudden turn in the 18th green basin.
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The most concerned moment of The Mao Saigo’s Chevron Championship Winner Sunday It came long after she survived from a Play off with five people to search for her first major championship.
23-year-old saigo made the only bird in the play off To defeat Ariya Jutanugarn, Ruoning Yin, Hyo Joo Kim and Lindy Duncan to provide the title in Club in Carlton Woods. After prevailing in what was the largest play off in the history of the great LPGA championship, Saigo jumped into the basin in the 18th hole of the celebration.
There was only one problem.
“I’m not really a good swimmer,” Saigo told reporters after her victory. “When I got inside was deep and at first I thought I was going to drown.”
Saigo did not want to enter the basin herself, so she brought her manager, Rika Arai and television reporter Mitsuki Katahira. Saigo’s Caddy, Jeffrey Snow and Trainer Yonguk Shin and Yonghee Lee were thrown into the other pond.
snow relevant GolfBeth Ann Nichols That he thinks Saigo feared when her legs could not touch the bottom of the basin. As the panic followed, the three women began to capture the men for help as they tried to return to the dock.
“Whenever I broke the surface, I retired again,” Snow Beth Ann Nichols told. “They were trying to catch someone.”
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Jutanugarn reached the last hole that is likely to need a money to win the tournament.
She pushed her goal to the right of a tree and then, after a discussion with her boiler, chosen to take the basin from the game hitting her access to green and letting her be connected by the ancestors sitting right after the green. This decision seemed to leave Jutanugarn with what looked like a high and down manageable for Birdie to close victory. But Jutanugarn barely touched the ball in her chip in the effort. After the nearby arm, the Chipped Jutanugarn over the green and with two strokes that Bogey would fall back into a tie with Kim and Yin in seven underneath.
Saigo and Duncan then reached 18 and both made birds to enter Play off.
At the Play off, Yin held the advantage after hitting a second brilliant kick that barely kept the dock and kept green to give her a good look at Eagle. Saigo, Kim and Juanugarn were Greenside in two while Duncan stretched.
