SHIGA, Japan — Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland received her first LPGA Tour title with a final-round 7-under 65 on Sunday to take the Toto Basic by 4 photographs forward of Japan’s Kana Nagai. Nagai additionally closed with a 65.
Linn Grant was a 3rd, 5 photographs off the tempo after a 67.
Dryburgh, who additionally carded a 65 within the third spherical, completed 20-under 268 on the Seta Golf Membership in western Japan.
Japanese Momoko Ueda, who led after the second and third rounds, completed eight photographs behind after a 74. Ueda had received the occasion twice.
Dryburgh had a premonition about profitable this week, and it occurred.
“I used to be in Korea final week with mates and I mentioned to them: ‘I will point out you in my speech’,” she mentioned. “Simply as a joke. It is overwhelming to be sincere. It is a dream of mine for a very long time.”
Dryburgh, who performed golf at Tulane College in New Orleans — she’s nonetheless a critical Manchester United soccer fan — mentioned she was relaxed regardless of the strain.
“I used to be nervous. I am not going to lie,” she mentioned. “However I used to be extremely calm to be sincere and form of targeted on my respiration.”
Dryburgh is the primary Scot to win on the LPGA tour since Catriona Matthew in 2011 on the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
Atthaya Thitikul, the 19-year-old from Thailand who has climbed to No. 1 within the LPGA rankings, completed with a 67 and was 10 photographs again of Dryburgh.
She was requested what she does subsequent.
“There’s loads of work to do,” she mentioned. “I feel I’m nonetheless working and getting higher, enhancing.
