Ruoning Yin Wins 2023 Ladies folks’s PGA Championship over Yuka Saso for 1st Profession Foremost

Two months after topping the LA Open to turn into the 2nd Chinese language LGPA Tour winner, 20-year-extinct Ruoning Yin has made history but again.

Yin held off a leisurely push from Japan’s Yuka Saso to attain with a match-main -8 in Round 4 of the 2023 Ladies folks’s PGA Championship Sunday and vow her first major acquire.

She will be able to now grab the lion’s fragment of a file $10 million purse, which tied the 2022 U.S. Ladies folks’s Open for the supreme all-time prize pool for a ladies’s major, per Golf.com. Yin will create $1.5 million from her acquire whereas Saso takes $944,292 for 2nd achieve of residing.

2023 Ladies folks’s PGA Championship Closing Leaderboard

Win: Ruoning Yin (-8)

2: Yuka Saso (-7)

T3: Carlota Ciganda (-6)

T3: Anna Nordqvist (-6)

T3: Megan Khang (-6)

T3: Xiyu Lin (-6)

T3: Stephanie Meadow (-6)

T8: Ayaka Furue (-5)

T8: Rose Zhang (-5)

T8: Jenny Shin (-5)

Pudgy leaderboard courtesy of the event’s official narrate. Pudgy payouts by procedure of Golf Digest.

Yin headed into the last hole with the lead at -7 after hitting three birdies and no bogeys by procedure of the major 17.

That’s when Saso made a accurate putt from the sand on Hole 18 to space herself up for a birdie and a fraction of the lead.

Saso, who obtained the 2021 U.S. Ladies folks’s Open at 19 years extinct, opened Round 4 with a -2, then made par at her first six holes earlier than hitting a birdie.

The Phillipine-born Japan representative adopted that up with four extra one-unders on Holes 10 to fifteen to attain -7 with three holes remaining.

Yin separated herself from Saso on the last hole by coolly placing a birdie to take the outright lead support within the match’s final moments.

Spain’s Carlota Ciganda, Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist, China’s Xiyu Lin, and Northern Eire’s Stephanie Meadow performed leisurely Yin and Saso at -6 alongside top American finisher Megan Khang.

Khang recorded birdies on four of the last six holes Sunday to imprint the true majors attain of her profession, beating out her T4 ranking within the 2021 U.S. Ladies folks’s Open.

Stanford product Rose Zhang, who obtained the Mizuho Americas Open all the procedure by procedure of a surprising-dying playoff in her professional debut final month, hit 11 greens in regulation with four birdies to take a fraction of the lead Sunday.

Zhang fell out of the lead after bogeys on Holes 13 and 16, but performed top 10 in her first major originate.