{"id":9943,"date":"2025-06-30T18:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/korean-duo-wins-the-dow-championship-and-deny-thompsons-title\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:54:18","slug":"korean-duo-wins-the-dow-championship-and-deny-thompsons-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/korean-duo-wins-the-dow-championship-and-deny-thompsons-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean duo wins the Dow Championship and deny Thompson&#8217;s title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MIDLAND, Michigan &#8212; Jin-hee poured an 8-foot birdie putt into the first playoff hole Sunday, as Laksi Thompson rejected his first LPGA Tour title in six years and poured an 8-foot birdie putt into the first playoff hole to team up with fellow Korean Somilies to win the Dow Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s partner Megan Kang had the opportunity to extend the playoffs, but she missed a five-foot birdie putt on the lower side of the hole from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson made an 8-foot birdie putt on the par 3 18th hole, and Kang was still facing a 6-foot birdie attempt. They first posted with 20 under 260.<\/p>\n<p>Lee made a 10-foot birdie putt to win the lead on the 17th. Im and Lee missed a birdie chance on the 18th with restrictions for victory.<\/p>\n<p>The playoffs have switched to Foursome. Thompson hit a tee shot from the right 5 feet of the cup on the 18th. Lee approached the pin, but was 8 feet long and set up an IM for the winning putt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re missing out on losing the final one in the playoffs and forcing another hole, but I&#8217;m very happy how we played,&#8221; Kang said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0629%2Fr1512868_1024x576_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0629%2Fr1512868_1024x576_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0629%2Fr1512868_1024x576_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0629%2Fr1512868_1024x576_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Thompson has not won since the 2019 ShopRite LPGA Classic and has decided not to play a full schedule last summer. The Dow Championship was the eighth tournament this year.<\/p>\n<p>Im and Lee are in their second year on the LPGA Tour, and while this was their first title in the US, they were both prolific winners at the Korean LPGA. I have won the KLPGA six times, but Lee has five KLPGA titles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; Lee said as it ended on the 18th green.<\/p>\n<p>Lindy Duncan and Miranda Wang had 59 in a better ball format, tied up on the third two shots from the playoffs. They joined Manon de Rohe and Pauline Rusin Bouchard and teamed up at the age of 64.<\/p>\n<p>Albambarenzuela and Saraschmerzell, who took a 54-hole lead, closed at 66 and failed to make a birdie on the final seven holes. They finished fifth and three shots.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson didn&#8217;t show when he would play again. Next up on the LPGA schedule is the Evian Championship in France. Thompson&#8217;s major skips every year to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow Championship is the only official team event on the LPGA schedule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDLAND, Michigan &#8212; Jin-hee poured an 8-foot birdie putt into the first playoff hole Sunday, as Laksi Thompson rejected his first LPGA Tour title in six years and poured an 8-foot birdie putt into the first playoff hole to team up with fellow Korean Somilies to win the Dow Championship. Thompson&#8217;s partner Megan Kang had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-9943","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\/9943","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=9943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}