MAINVILLE, Ohio — Charlie Hull took advantage of the meltdown in the final hole of top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul on Sunday to win the Kroger Queen City Championship.
Thitikul-Hal bogeyed par 4 17th place, then stroked – about 50 feet to 4 putts on par 5 18th place, missing out on a 5-foot and 3-foot cambucker. Hal putts from about 30 feet and makes two footers for victory.
“Because she wasn’t really looking at her putt for birdie, she thought she would make a hole in it,” Hal said. “If that’s the case, yeah, I don’t think it’s over until the fat woman sings, but I wasn’t expecting it, so I was rocking that last putt.”
Hal closed at 4 under 68 and finished at 20 under 268 on TPC River’s Bend. The 29-year-old English player won his third LPGA Tour title, his first time since 2022. She won four women’s European tours.
Thitikul matched Hull with 68. The ThaiStar- The winner at Liberty National in New Jersey in May missed the chance to become the first multiple winners on the tour this season.
England’s Lottie Ward was 18, 18, at the age of 66.
Yamashitamiya (69) was under the age of 17, and second-placed Nelly Korda (70) followed at age 15 by Nasa Hataoka (65), Chisato Iwai (71), Sei Young Kim (69), Jennifer Kupcho (67), Mary Liu (70) and Mama Stark (69).
Hal was runner-up in Houston last week as part of the Aramco series on the European Tour.
