Australian golfer Hannah Green has produced a bogey-free final round on her 24th birthday, to finish in a tie for second at the LPGA season finale.
Key points:
- Hannah Green’s second place finish is the second highest prize purse of her career
- Green shot five birdies in her final round to climb up the leader board
- Fellow Australian Minjee Lee finished in a tie for 13th
The Tour Championship is the richest tournament of the year, with $US3 million in prize money on offer.
Green (-13) shot five birdies on her final round to finish second with last year’s winner, South Korean Sei Young Kim.
Both players took took home $US209,555 ($276,252.17).
The pair were five shots off the winner, world number one Jin Young Ko.
Ko (-18) was a class above the rest at the Tiburon Golf Club in Florida.
The world number one shot below 70 in all four rounds, the only golfer to achieve this in the Tour Championship.
Ko secured the $US1.1 million ($1.45 million) prize for winning the tournament.
Green had finished outside of the top 20 in her previous four tournaments.
A week earlier, she finished in a tie for 40th in the US Open.
But the Australian was able to turn her fortunes around, shooting under-par in all four rounds.
This is the second-largest purse Green has won in her career.
She took home $US557,500 when she won the 2019 PGA Championship.
Fellow Australian Minjee Lee had a tough final round, shooting a two-over 74.
This dropped her into a tie for 13th.
The two other Australians in the field, Katherine Kirk and Sarah Kemp, finished in ties for 23rd and 53rd respectively.
