Golf: Yoo clinches her 1st LPGA title

RANCHO MIRAGE: South Korean golfer Sun Young Yoo birdied the first playoff hole to win the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship after IK Kim missed a one-foot putt for the win on the final hole of regulation. Yoo was steady down the stretch in the first women’s major championship of 2012, but it was only Kim’s heartbreaking miss that made her playoff triumph possible. “Kim’s a great putter,” said Yoo. “She usually doesn’t miss that kind of putt but in sports anything can happen.” Both South Koreans carded final-round 69s to finish 72 holes tied on nine-under 279.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 3^rd, 2012.