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[LPGA] Danielle Kang Captures First Career Win and
Major Title at KPMG Women's PGA Championship
 
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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – Sunday, Danielle Kang made the unfamiliar familiar by relying on the strategy that helped her win back-to-back U.S. Women’s Amateur titles.
 
As the first time leader of a major championship, the 2012 rookie took a match play like approach to the final day of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and dominated her opponents on the closing stretch of the ‘match’ to win by one stroke for her first major victory and first career win on the LPGA Tour. “I really wanted to be tied for the lead tomorrow, just so that I could just play my game and just stay aggressive just like match play,” Kang said after the third round.
 
Kang is a leaderboard watcher and had more than one challenger to keep an eye Sunday as she was paired with co-leader Chella Choi. Defending champion Brooke Henderson was playing one group ahead. As Henderson rattled off three birdies in her first seven holes, Kang remained steady as the Canadian pulled into a share of the lead at 10-under par. Momentum looked to favor Henderson as Kang made bogey at the par four, 10th hole to drop out of the three-way tie at the top along with Choi.
 
But as is the case in any critical match, momentum shifted throughout the day and it was soon shifting Kang’s way. She went on a back nine tear, making four consecutive birdies to take a three-stroke lead into the final stretch. But Henderson didn’t make it easy for Kang. She made birdie at the par three, 17th and then came up one revolution short of an eagle to take the outright lead at the 18th as Kang made bogey behind.
 
Kang teed off on the 72nd hole tied with Henderson at 12-under par. She reached the green in two where she two-putted for birdie for a one-stroke victory over the defending champion. Kang’s victory comes in her 144th start on the LPGA Tour and she becomes the first member on Tour to make her first victory a major since Mo Martin at the 2014 Ricoh Women’s British Open. With her victory, Kang will likely earn one of eight automatic spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup team as she sat 10th in the standings entering the week.
 
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Photo and Text from Internet,Webpage by Kyu Hwang, July 2,2017

 

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