England’s Charley Hull (70) was fourth on 10 under, while Scotland’s Catriona Matthew (75) finished on three under.
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Scot Catriona Matthew managed a four-under 68 to bring her six-under par overall.
The 18-year-old fired a seven-under 65 on Sunday to finish at 20-under for the tournament, nine strokes clear of second place.
The five-under was the second lowest of the day, next only to the 66 of American Brittany Lang.
“I’ve still got to play a lot of good golf tomorrow and there’s still 18 holes to go”, she said.
“I think that’s what I tried to do, and I think it worked out”.
The win means that she now replaces South Korea’s Inbee Park as the women’s top-ranked player with her fifth LPGA tour win this year. She’s not only a good player, but she’s a really good person.
Local favorite Yani Tseng (曾雅妮) had a less than satisfying day, shooting three birdies, three bogeys and two double bogeys.
For her latest victory at the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship, Lydia Ko left no question as to who is the best female golfer in the world. “But after that chip-in, I kind of loosened up and tried to smile a little bit more. But I didn’t imagine it going in”.
I think Ko’s greatness is grounded in her almost instinctual capacity to read not just the greens but the entire golf course, in her ability to envision not just the single shot – although all of us who swing the sticks know that we play the game of golf one shot at a time – but the way those individual shots should fit together into a tightly woven tapestry.
She added birdies on the par-three 14th and par-five 18th, chipping to within a foot on the last. She won in Canada and France – where she became the youngest major champion – in consecutive starts, tied for second two weeks ago in Malaysia and tied for fourth last week in South Korea.
In a chat with media after her win, Ko said that regaining the top ranking spot was not something she was thinking about instead her focus was on finishing on top of Sunday’s leaderboard.
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Elswehere, Denmark’s Emily Pedersen completed a wire-to-wire victory to claim her first professional title in the Hero Women’s Indian Open.
