ROGERS, Ark.
So Yeon Ryu became the LPGA Tour’s first two-time winner this season, taking the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship with a tournament record 18-under 195 total.
Five strokes ahead after a course-record 10-under 61 on Saturday, the third-ranked Ryu closed with a 69 for a two-shot victory over fellow South Korean player Amy Yang and Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn.
Ryu has five LPGA Tour victories, also winning the major ANA Inspiration in April in a playoff with Lexi Thompson. Ryu won at Pinnacle
Country Club four years after losing a playoff to Inbee Park in event.
Yang finished with a 64, and Jutanugarn had a 66.
Local favorite Stacy Lewis (69) and Michelle Wie (64) tied for fourth at 13 under.
Champions Tour
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fred Couples rallied to win the American Family Insurance Open for his second PGA Tour Champions title of the year and 13th overall.
The 57-year-old Couples shot a 6-under 66 in cool and windy conditions at University Ridge for a two-shot victory over Scott Verplank. Couples birdied six of the first 11 holes and finished at 15-under 201.
Couples also won the 50- and-over tour’s Chubb Classic in February in Florida. The Hall of Famer, long hampered by back problems, won 15 times on the PGA Tour — his lone major coming in the 1992 Masters.
Lincoln Charity
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Adam Schenk won the Web.com Tour’s Lincoln Land Charity Championship with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff with Eric Axley, William Kropp and Kyle Thompson.
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