By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) — Kim In-kyung, a seven-time LPGA winner from South Korea, introduced her retirement Sunday following her ultimate spherical on the AIG Ladies’s Open in Scotland.
The event’s official X web page delivered the information after Kim completed her play on the Outdated Course at St Andrews. She shot a three-over 75 on Sunday to complete at 11-over 299 total, 81st amongst 82 golfers who made the lower.
Kim, 36, had been enjoying on the LPGA Tour since 2007. She went on to seize seven titles, together with her lone main on the 2017 Ladies’s British Open, the previous title of the AIG Ladies’s Open. The British title additionally ended up being her ultimate LPGA victory.
Kim is thought for her shut name on the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship, additionally a serious championship. On the 72nd gap, she missed a one-foot par putt for the win and as a substitute ended up in a playoff with fellow South Korean Yoo Solar-young. Yoo ended up profitable the event, and Kim did not win once more till October 2016.
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