SEI YOUNG KIM CAPTURES FIFTH CAREER LPGA TOUR VICTORY AT MEIJER LPGA CLASSIC FOR SIMPLY GIVE: VIDEO
SEI YOUNG KIM CAPTURES FIFTH CAREER LPGA TOUR VICTORY AT MEIJER LPGA CLASSIC FOR SIMPLY GIVE
19 JUN 2016
On the first playoff hole, Sei Young Kim stuffed her approach shot from the left rough to three feet and calmly tapped in the birdie putt to defeat Carlota Ciganda and capture her fifth LPGA victory at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give.
“It was 109 meters to the pin,” Kim explained. “It was a lot of release so I just had 90 meters. I did, it worked.”
Both Kim and Ciganda drove the ball in the left rough on the first extra hole. Ciganda played first and sent her approach long and left setting and failed to get up-and-down for par the stage for Kim.
“Only one can win and obviously I hit it to the rough, it wasn’t an easy shot and she hit a really good one,” Ciganda said. “So I mean congratulations to her and she was better.”
Kim actually thought that she wouldn’t need a playoff when she tapped in for a bogey on her 72nd hole.
“Before playoff I felt like already win but I didn’t check the leaderboard,” Kim said. “Then I thought the ceremony was already.”
After she signed her card, Kim was greeted by an LPGA rules official who alerted her that she would be heading back to the 18th tee to compete in the playoff with Ciganda.
“Why’s he waiting for me?,” Kim admitted to wondering. “So after go to the tee box and I realize there’s the playoff. Wow.”
Kim was able to shake it off and improve to a perfect 3-0 in playoffs on the LPGA Tour.
“I just angry on myself, yeah,” Kim said of the error in judgment. “I just say, I have to bounce back because today before I play, I setting my goal no bogey play but last one I missed with bogey. If I bounce back, yeah, it is a good work, so I did it well today.”
Making the moment extra special for Kim was the fact that her dad, Jungil Kim, was in attendance.
“I’m very happy to win on the Father’s Day give it to my dad this trophy,” Kim said with a smile.
