The Evian Championship is perhaps the least anticipated of all of the 9 Majors – shortest historical past, unusual course – however this yr it produced the shot of 2025.
The apparent contenders can be one thing from Rory McIlroy’s closing spherical at Augusta or JJ Spaun’s 65-footer to seal the US Open however what the Australian did in France was much more spectacular.
In regulation play Kim hit a 4-hybrid to kick-in distance to achieve 14-under and provides herself an opportunity of a play-off – Jeeno Thitikul then missed from eight ft for the victory.
In additional time Kim then noticed her 4-hybrid sail broad and proper and end within the water. However, after taking a drop and with Thitikul simply by way of the again of the 18th inexperienced, she in some way regrouped and chipped in from 30 yards.
If this had occurred within the males’s recreation, and even one of many different ladies’s Majors, we’d have been watching this on a loop ever since.
The run-up to Kim’s chip-in provides one other layer of brilliance. She double-bogeyed the twelfth to fall again to 10-under however she then birdied 15 and 16 earlier than including that eagle on the 72nd gap. Lottie Woad was already within the clubhouse at -13 so she knew she needed to make a late run and she or he pulled it off.
“Clearly I used to be fairly bummed to search out out that my ball was in the course of the water,” she defined afterwards.
“However, once more, it’s not fairly completed till the very finish. I wasn’t nervous, dropped the ball and it sort of ended up in a fairly respectable lie and simply needed to verify I received it there. Yeah, simply occurred to have chipped it in. I don’t know if I can do it once more. That was nice.
“I had a sense that it was going to be a very good chip shot. I’ll undoubtedly take the outcome. Simply realizing that Jeeno was going to make a very good shot, like simply anticipate the great to make birdie from there as effectively.
“I knew I needed to give it my all. I misplaced a shot within the water. Simply used that 58 and chipped it on and launched and went within the gap. I don’t know the way it occurred actually. All 3 times I performed that 18th gap I hit the identical membership, which was a 4-hybrid. That can be staying within the bag.”
One gap later she discovered the 18th inexperienced and rolled in a 12-foot eagle putt to develop into a Main champion.
So she performed the 18th gap 3 times within the house of an hour and performed it in 5 underneath par.
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