Leona Maguire

Jennifer Kupcho outlasted Nelly Korda and Leona Maguire to win the 2022 Meijer LPGA Classic for her second win this season.

She tied for fifth with Jessica Korda, Carlota Ciganda and Atthaya Thitikul. Brooke Henderson, last week’s winner on the LPGA, finished 15 under, tied for ninth. Lexi Thompson birdied the 18th hole but bogeys on Nos. 11, 14 and 15 proved to much to overcome. A bogey on 16 led to a final-round 71 but she made the most of the playoff.

Jennifer Kupcho survived a roller coaster of a round to win the Meijer LPGA Classic with a birdie at the second playoff hole, denying 2021 champion Nelly ...

Kupcho, who opened the week with a career-best 63 and also led after the second round, rolled in a long eagle putt to start turning things around at the eighth. She regrouped to card a one-under-par 71 for an 18-under total of 270, where she was joined by Korda -- who needed a birdie at the 72nd hole to cap an even par round and make the playoff -- and Maguire, who stormed to the top with a seven-under par 65. "I mean, this leaderboard was stacked.

Cavan woman shoots superb 65 on Sunday on the LPGA Tour.

Maguire had struggled for form since her win at the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony in February, missing four of the previous five cuts before this event. She hit a fantastic wood cut shot around the trees on to the green from an unlikely position, but she three-putted for par, as Kupchko birdied. The Cavan woman started in blistering form with four birdies in her first six holes, a sole bogey at the third hole.

Mere months after the Cavan native made history by becoming the first Irish golfer ever to win an LPGA title, she came from way back and almost repeated the ...

However it was now Maguire's turn to three-putt from distance and Kupcho birdied to claim glory. Remarkably, she missed and with Korda only able to make par, Maguire's two-putt birdie from 30 feet was good enough to force things to a second playoff hole where it was now a two-horse race. But it looked as though it would be over as soon as it began when world No.16 Kupcho hit a stunning second into the 18th to leave herself with an eagle putt from no more than a couple of feet.

Leona Maguire found only Jennifer Kupchko too good at the Meijer LPGA Classic, finishing in a tie for second after succumbing to the American on the second ...

Korda's sudden death hopes ended with a par on the first play-off hole on 18, with Maguire and Kupchko both recording birdies. However, the Cavan woman three-putted for par as Kupchko birdied to register a second success on the LPGA Tour. Leona Maguire found only Jennifer Kupchko too good at the Meijer LPGA Classic, finishing in a tie for second after succumbing to the American on the second sudden death play-off hole at Blythefield Country Club in Michigan.

Kupcho won the LPGA Meijer Classic on Sunday when Leona Maguire's 3-foot birdie try lipped out on the second extra hole.

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Leona Maguire fell agonisingly short to her second LPGA Tout win as she lost out in a playoff at the Meijer LPGA Classic. Maguire was well out of contention ...

The Solheim Cup winner would stick her approach shot on the second close but not convert and neither could Kupcho but Maguire missed her close range putt to hand the American victory. The three would play in a playoff and Maguire looked doomed as Kupcho stuck her approach to about two feet for a tap in eagle. Leona Maguire fell agonisingly short to her second LPGA Tout win as she lost out in a playoff at the Meijer LPGA Classic.

Jennifer Kupcho tapped in for birdie on the second playoff hole to defeat Ireland's Leona Maguire and world No 2 Nelly Korda to win the Meijer LPGA Classic ...

Lydia Ko of New Zealand shot a 68 on Sunday and finished alone in fourth at 17 under. Kupcho led after the first and second rounds before Korda slipped past her to take the 54-hole lead. She birdied the 18th to get herself into the playoff.