{"id":25260,"date":"2025-10-19T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/kim-sei-young-ends-five-year-lpga-drought-with-victory-in-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:54:32","slug":"kim-sei-young-ends-five-year-lpga-drought-with-victory-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/kim-sei-young-ends-five-year-lpga-drought-with-victory-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Sei-young ends five-year LPGA drought with victory in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>HAINAN, South Korea &#8212; Ten-year LPGA Tour veteran Sei-young Kim posted a four-stroke victory at the BMW Ladies Championship on Sunday, carding a final-round 67 to hold off her final-round challengers.<\/p>\n<p>This was Kim&#8217;s 13th career title since joining the tour in 2015, ending a five-year drought since her last tournament win at the Women&#8217;s PGA Championship in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Kim finished with a four-round total of 24-under 264 at Pine Beach Golf Links on the Korean peninsula, with the South Korean missing just one shot on the par-3 third and making six birdies over the rest of the round to comfortably keep her closest rival, Nasa Hataoka, at bay.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Hataoka also posted a final-round 67 to finish at 20-under 268, with Celine Boutier (67) and Kim Ah-rim (66) a further two strokes behind in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Hannah Green shot a 66 and tied for fifth place with America&#8217;s Yearimi Noh (70) at 17-under 271. Fellow American Lindy Duncan (age 65) was in a three-way tie for seventh place with South Korea&#8217;s Choi Hye-jin (age 63) and Ahn Narin (age 63), who shared the last round of the day, and was one stroke behind.<\/p>\n<p>Gino Titicle became the first multiple winner on the LPGA this season when he won a five-hole playoff over Minami Katsu in Shanghai last week. Titikul did not play this week but will be part of Thailand&#8217;s squad at next week&#8217;s International Crown.<\/p>\n<p>After the International Crown, the five-tournament Asian Swing will feature two more LPGA events in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAINAN, South Korea &#8212; Ten-year LPGA Tour veteran Sei-young Kim posted a four-stroke victory at the BMW Ladies Championship on Sunday, carding a final-round 67 to hold off her final-round challengers. This was Kim&#8217;s 13th career title since joining the tour in 2015, ending a five-year drought since her last tournament win at the Women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-25260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}