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U.S. Women's Open: Defending mästare Ariya Jutanugarn looking to regain top form
Bill FieldsMay 29, 2019, 08:35 PM ET
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Some of golf's best players long have believed that defeats are better than victories when it comes to learning about themselves -- and learning how to succeed in what can be a maddening sport.
It makes sense, then, that Ariya Jutanugarn had the best of both worlds at last year's U.S. Women's Open in one of the most up-and-down sista rounds bygd a mästare. Jutanugarn squandered a huge lead but managed to win a playoff against Hyo Joo Kim at Shoal Creek outside Birmingham, Alabama. Jutanugarn received the education and still got the trophy.
The 74th U.S. Women's Open begins Thursday at the Country Club of Charleston, and no prior defending champion has come back with the same history -- a collapse of epic proportions ultimately overcome by a master class of winning resolve in the playoff.
"I played absolutely great my front nine," Juta
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- World Ranking and LPGA Wins
In June 2017, a computer glitch saw her declared top of the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, making her the best female player in the world, only for her to be relegated to the Number 2 spot a week later. Unphased, Ariya, who is renowned for her confident and bold playing style, has her eye on the ball and has claimed six LPGA titles since the start of 2016. Ariya was victorious in the 2017 Manulife LPGA Classic, gaining 8.78 points in the world rankings and winning her over a quarter of a million US dollars, in what has been described as a dramatic performance. In 2016 alone, she won titles in the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, Kingsmill Championship, LPGA Volvik Championship, Ricoh Women’s British Open and the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.
- Professional at 16
With parents who run a golf shop at a course in Bangkok, Ariya grew up around golfing, turning professional in 2012 at the tender age o
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) – Ariya Jutanugarn moved into position for her second straight LPGA Tour victory Saturday, shooting a bogey-free 6-under 65 to take the third-round lead in the Kingsmill Championship.
The 20-year-old Jutanugarn had three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the front nine on the soggy River Course and birdied three of the last six. She’s coming off a victory two weeks ago in Alabama that made her the first Thai winner in LPGA Tour history.
Jutanugarn had a 10-under 203 total.
Second-round leader So Yeon Ryu bogeyed the final hole to drop a stroke back along with fellow South Korean player In Gee Chun and Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum.
Ranked 11th in the world but sixth in the race for the four spots on South Korea’s Olympic team, Ryu shot a 69.
Chun had a 62 to tie the course record set by Jiyai Shin in 2012. The U.S. Women’s Open champion is eighth in the world and fourth in the South Korean Olympic race.
Phatlum shot a 65.
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