2022 Momentum gsport Awards Ministerial Award recipient Ashleigh Buhai, fired her second consecutive six-under-par 65 to win the ShopRite LPGA Classic by one stroke on Sunday, 11 June 2023.
The reigning Women’s British Open champion, who began day three off the pace, finished 72 holes on 14-under 199 at Seaview in Galloway, New Jersey, to edge South Korea’s Kim Hyo-joo.
“At no point did I think it was mine until it was really confirmed,” Buhai said.
“I did really well to stay mentally in it, stuck to my processes.
“I didn’t get ahead of myself and think of the outcome at all. I just trusted the one thing I was trying to do in my golf swing and hopefully that could take care of it.”
While it was Buhai’s first LPGA triumph on US soil, it was her fourth worldwide victory in the past 10 months, including March’s South African Women’s Open, last December’s Women’s Australian Open and her major breakthrough last August at Muirfield in Scotland in the Women’s British Open.
“It’s definitely the best golf I’ve ever played in my career,” Buhai said. “Experience only comes from experience and I put myself in that position four times in the last eight months. Every time you get a little more comfortable.”
Photo 1 Caption: 2022 Momentum gsport Awards Ministerial Award recipient Ashleigh Buhai, fired her second consecutive six-under-par 65 to win the ShopRite LPGA Classic by one stroke on Sunday, 11 June 2023. Photo: LPGA (Twitter)
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