
Scene from No. 18 in the Chevron Championship.
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As for the dramatic golf holes, it is difficult to get out of the 72nd hole of a great championship.
But also by those standards, the conclusion of Chevron Championship, The first women of 2025 women was crazy.
The much better and worse golf, his most dramatic and controversial, his triumph and tragedy – everyone gathered in his last hole.
And then they played again.
You want sports tragedy? Enter the Ariya Jutanugarn, which came to the 18th par-5 needed, most likely, before winning the tournament. Things began dramatically when it pushed its purpose to the right (rather than the left) of a tree outside. All good – she snapped through the branches.
But her second shot introduced another controversial layer; After a long discussion, she and her cadad decided to send full to send the basin while preserving the green front, and so she played an approach that landed in green and then re -joined by the large argument group, tapping further. The location of these bleachers has attracted a lot of criticism to take essentially the risk of going long; Sunday’s latest groups provided a lot of evidence.
It was a smart game for Jutanugarn, though; Her chances looked even better as her second was set a little more than green and left one up and down for birds that would definitely seal the deal.
Things didn’t work that way.
Instead, Jutanugarn barely made contacts at all. It was difficult to say in real time if she had, in fact, in order to hit the ball. A chip and two strokes later and it was in Bogey and 7 under the par.
“I’m almost speechless, Terry,” analyst Morgan Pressel told her partner Terry Gannon in the broadcast.
Scenes in the 72nd hole.
Ariya Jutanugarn fights in her last hole and ends with Bogey to join the club leaders in the 7th.
Look now at NBC. pic.twitter.com/axjfabiyxl
– lpga (@lpga) 27 April 2025
The tragic conclusion of Jutanugarn did not condemn her chances, though: she joined Hyo Joo Kim, who had already shot one of the rounds of the day, a two-nine year, to post 7 under. They would soon have companies. Jutanugarn game partner, no. 6 Ronni Yin, executed one up and down for Birdie to join the group at 7 under.
The last group of the day reached the 18th Tee with two players on 7 under the first, but then both Lindy Duncan and Mao Saigo played second shots before enduring a long wait; The partner playing Haeran Ryu took a while to make her mind in her second goal before taking an extra club and did not go one over the green and the crowd in the bleach. She took a longer time understanding a drop, effectively making her partners playing. And then Ryu added to the chaos with a blow of greatness, shredding a long curler rolling in the cup for an eagle 3.
It was no small thing, when Duncan and Saigo then rose up and down for Birdie, beating freezing and pressure while each sent the middle interval curls in the middle.
Suddenly there were five players on 7 under. And they headed back to tee, ensuring that the 72nd chaotic hole would also be a 73rd chaotic.
All five hit him in the game out. Yin kept the advantage after their respective second shots, hitting a frightening road approach that just carried the bank of the accused (I told you this hole was nuts), somehow kept the green and left it with a good look at Eagle. Duncan stretched out, but the other three ended Greenside.
But then? More madness.
At first there was a certainty that some players would make birds; The only question was whether that would be good enough to play. Instead, putting on the victory, destroyed its well -slipped eagle by passing the hole. Then she lost her back. Duncan’s third blow left it without a look for Birdie. Kim lost her bird test. And Jutanugarn, adding to her anger, horses her bird’s test.
This left Saigo, the 23-year-old star growing from Japan. She finished a three-legged Birdie, brought out, smiled, hugged her boiler, and then hugged each of her defeated competitors-officially standing golf.
Of course there will be posts on the tournaments, in his last hole, in the changes that can or must be made forward. But there was no doubt that only one between them, Saigo, had made 4 in the regulation and another 4 to win.
The only thing left was a festive dance in the pond, it would avoid successfully by then.

Dylan dethier
Golfit.com editor
Dylan Dothier is an elderly writer for Golf Magazine/Golf.com. Native Williamstown, Mass. Dothier is a graduate of Williams College, where he graduated in English, and he is the author of 18 in Americawhich details last year as an 18-year-old living out of his car and playing a round of golf in every state.