Golf: History-maker Ruoning Yin 'chasing her inspiration' Shanshan Feng after maiden PGA trophy
Yin with the maiden PGA trophy. (Source: @LPGA)
Ruoning Yin became the second Chinese woman to get a major trophy after Shanshan Feng following her win at the Women's PGA Championship trophy at Baltusrol on Sunday. She held off Japan's Yuka Saso to get the one-stroke victory. The 20-year-old finished at 8-under 276 after closing the final round with 4-under 67.
"When I was walking to this tent, I just said: 'Oh, wow, major winner!' It's amazing. It's just unreal," Yin said Sunday after winning the trophy at the winner's press conference.
Yin's idol Feng , who now holds the position of national coach in China, has 10 LPGA Tour victories to her name. Yin was nine-year-old when Feng won her first major in 2012. The new winner from China said that she's chasing Feng and that she inspired her.
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"I would say she's definitely the goal that I'm chasing," Yin said. "But I think she is the person who inspired me the most."
Yin was confident on winning despite second-placed Saso tied with her for the lead on the 18th hole. Yin said she felt she was going to make and eventually she did.
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"I actually kind of felt that I was going to make it, and I made it," said Yin. "It's a very weird feeling."
Runner-up Saso, who gave a tough fight to Yin, almost blew her chance after missing a 10-foot birdie for the lead on the 17th hole. Or that's what she thought initially.
"After missing the birdie on 17, I just wished that I wouldn't hit my drive in the water on 18," she said. "But glad I didn't. Hit a good shot, and second shot hit it in the left bunker. It was not an easy bunker shot, but it was manageable, and I was able to manage it pretty good," added Saso.
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