Sweden's Pernilla Lindberg won the playoff in front of the former world n ° 1 Inbee Park and won her first LPGA title on the first Major of the season the ANA Inspiration at Mission Hills Country Club (China).

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It took no less than 193 starts on the LPGA circuit and eight holes of an endless playoff, for Sweden's Pernilla Lindberg to win her first LPGA title, winning this Monday on the first major of the season, the ANA Inspiration.

Kicking a 9-meter birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole Pernilla Lindberg struggled through eight holes before making his mark in the first major tournament of the year.

"I just know that I felt very solid and that this was the moment I had to do it"said Lindberg immediately after the victory. “I couldn't believe it was me who won this last duel. "

Inbee Park and Pernilla Lindberg returned to the Dinah Shore course Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. and resumed the playoffs on hole ten, their fifth playoff hole going on Sunday night when play was suspended after the fourth due to darkness.

The two young players tied on this par 4, touching the green in regulation but missing the opportunity to decide on putts measured respectively at 6 meters (for Park) and 9 meters (for Lindberg). On par 3 of 17, we can at this moment think that Park is taking a decisive advantage by finding the bunker on the left of the green while his opponent cannot avoid the deep rough, again on the left of the green. But Pernilla Lindberg made a good move and forced Park to settle for par.

The par 5 of 18 could also have marked the end of this anthology meeting. Lindberg indeed finds the green in 2 whereas Park decides to play this hole in regulation. After a rather short eagle putt, Lindberg had the means to succeed the Korean So Yeon Ryu but, certainly unsettled by the emotion of a first success on the LPGA Tour, she did not succeed in converting her putt to one meter eighty to finish not impose.

Passed professional in 2009 after university studies in Oklahoma State, Lindberg, since 2010 on the LPGA Tour, confirms here the very good health of Swedish golf. His compatriot Anna Nordqvist had indeed taken the best on the American Brittany Altomare last September, at the Evian Championship. In the playoff. Already!

This is the first time in the 47-year history of ANA Inspiration - and the LPGA - that two players have returned on Monday to choose the winner

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