Golf: Korean Ko wins Evian for second major title of year

Golf: Korean Ko wins Evian for second major title of year
FILE PHOTO - Golf - Women's British Open - Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham Saint Annes, Britain - August 2, 2018 Korea's Jin Young Ko lines up a putt during the first round Action Images via Reuters/Jason Cairnduff Copyright JASON CAIRNDUFF(Reuters)
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(Reuters) - Ko Jin-young won the Evian Championship by two strokes in France on Sunday, cementing her reputation as a player for the big occasions.

South Korean Ko seized control with a 15-foot birdie at the penultimate hole, and parred the last for a four-under-par 67 at the Evian Resort in Evian-les-Bains.

She finished at 15-under 269 for her second major victory of the year, after the ANA Inspiration in April.

Fellow South Korean Kim Hyo-joo (73), China's Shanshan Feng (68) and American Jennifer Kupcho (66) tied for second on 13-under.

Ko, 24, started the final round four shots behind Kim, whose hopes disappeared with a triple-bogey at the par-three 14th, where her ball plugged in a greenside bunker.

It was Ko's fifth LPGA Tour victory in less than two years.

(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Toby Davis)

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