Lexi Thompson

In Gee Chun rallied after losing the rest of her once-sizable lead, overcoming a bogey-filled front nine to win the Women's PGA Championship on Sunday.

Thompson was just short and right of the green in 2 shots but took four from there to make bogey, while Chun rolled in her birdie putt after a long wait. When Thompson birdied 15 and Lee bogeyed 17, the Australian was 3 behind. Thompson hasn't won an LPGA Tour event since 2019, and her lone major victory came as a teenager at Mission Hills in the California desert in 2014. She lost a 5-stroke lead during the final round of last year's U.S. Women's Open at Olympic Club. Thompson was 2 strokes ahead of her after the front nine, but Thompson's putting problems were just beginning. Then she bogeyed the par-5 16th while Chun made birdie, leaving the two players tied with two holes remaining.

In Gee Chun started and ended Sunday atop the Women's PGA Championship leaderboard, capturing her third career major. In between, it wasn't so...

It's the second time in as many years that Thompson has lost a lead on the final day of a major; she held a five-stroke lead on Sunday at the 2021 U.S. Women's Open before finishing third. Chun led the tournament after every round, firing an 8-under 64 on the first day and finishing with a 5-under-par 283 for the week. She led by two strokes on the back nine, but struggles with the putter led to an erratic finish.

Hole-by-hole report: Chun In-gee recovers after a shaky start to land her third major title, condemning Lexi Thompson to another painful near miss.

That is quite sensational from where she was, and she’ll have a good look at her third birdie of the day. A bit of trouble for the leader Lexi Thompson at the par-five 9th. She uses the camber at the back of the 14th green to gather her ball back to kick-in distance. Her approach takes a hard bounce on the apron of the green, and flies hysterically into a bunker at the back. Par meanwhile for the third member of the final group, Hye-jin Choi, who nearly drains a 30-footer for birdie and is hanging on in there. From the ridiculous to the sublime, and that’s a huge bounceback birdie! Having made birdie at 16, she sends her second into 17 to eight feet, and will have a look at a birdie that will take her to -3! She remains at -4 and now Thompson will have a look at birdie of her own from a much more realistic 20 feet. Meanwhile Thompson hits a hot wedge over the green and down a swale to the left! She goes straight for the flag and for a second worries that she’s pulled her ball into the water on the left. She lands pin high, and will have a look at the birdie she almost surely requires from 15 feet. She signs for a disappointing final round of 76, but at least she’s ended the week in red figures at -1.