Page 46 - Golf Champion Magazine - April 2023

[LPGA TOUR]

Celine Boutier
BOUTIER BEATS HALL IN PLAYOFF

TO CLAIM 3RD LPGA VICTORY

셀린 부티에 홀과 연장끝에 LPGA 투어 통산3번째 우승

OLD CANYON, Ariz.(AP) — Celine Boutier of France beat
Georgia Hall
GGeorgia Hall of England with a birdie on the first playoff
hole Sunday to win the LPGA Drive on Championship.
Boutier forced a playoff by making a testy birdie putt at
the par-5 18th to close out a 4-under 68, matching Hall (65)
at 20-under 268 in the LPGA's first full-field event of the
season.
Playing the 18th hole again, neither golfer found the green
with their second shot of the playoff. Boutier, chipping
from nearly the same spot as she did in regulation short and
right of the green, pitched to about 4 feet. Meanwhile, Hall
hit her second shot into a greenside bunker, blasted beyond
the hole and failed to convert her birdie effort. That set the
stage for Boutier's winning birdie putt.
Boutier had mixed feelings about squaring off in a playoff
against — and beating — Hall, a former Solheim Cup
teammate.
"I was honestly not looking forward to it," Boutier said. "It's
a bittersweet feeling because you obviously want to win,
but at the same time I really think she's an amazing player.
... She is a really good friend of mine. So I feel like it's not

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