RYU REVELS IN SECOND MAJOR VICTORY, THOMPSON HANDLES RULING WITH GRACE

RYU REVELS IN SECOND MAJOR VICTORY, THOMPSON HANDLES RULING WITH GRACE

source lpga

03 APR 2017

RYU REVELS IN SECOND MAJOR VICTORY

Since 2014, So Yeon Ryu has been the picture of consistency. She has not missed a cut since June 2014, and she has finished in the top seven of each of her four 2017 events leading into the ANA Inspiration. But on the other hand, 2014 was also the year of her last LPGA victory, when Ryu took home the title at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open. And it has been nearly six years since she won her first major title, the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open. 

“I’ve been waiting to win the tournament so long, that this time I was desperate to win the tournament,” said Ryu.

Her wait finally ended today, as she birdied the first playoff hole to win the title over Lexi Thompson and earn the honor of jumping into Poppie’s Pond.

“When you have a 5-foot like champion’s putt, you cannot be really normal. So I shook my hand so much, and then my brain was just going crazy,” said Ryu, who was joined on the jump by her mother (Kywang-Ja Cho), sister (So-Myung Ryu), manager (Sang-Jin Jang) and caddie (Tom Watson). “But I just kept telling myself: Okay, So Yeon, you practice this putt more than a thousand times. Trust yourself and trust what you pick and trust your decision and trust what you’ve been working on, and then I roll it in and I think it falls. That was a pretty nervous moment. But it was a real special moment, as well.”

http://www.lpga.com/news/2017-news-and-notes-final-round-ana-inspiration

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