Vietnamese-born golfer wins major Chevron Championship 2023
On the morning of April 24, according to Hanoi time, Vu and Yin played each other at the par5 18th hole, The Club par72 after both reaching -10 points through four standard rounds. There, both hit the fairway. On the second shot, Yin sent the ball into the lake in front of the green, and Vu, despite getting through the trap, went outside the hole.
After dropping a new ball with a penalty stroke, Yin entered the green on the third shot and was only able to keep par or worse when the ball was 3.3 meters away. In contrast, Vu, although far from losing, still has an advantage over his opponent.
She decided to brush from the green. The first shot lacked power, stopping 4.5 meters from the target. But since then, Vu has birdie again, for the third time in a row, including the last two holes of the standard round.
Thanks to that, Vu was crowned, and Yin was the runner-up.
After the finishing stroke, Vu completed the custom of "cup owner bathing in the lake".
After that, Vu said: "For the past two days, we have seen snakes down there. So, at first, I was nervous, but then I jumped, thanks to the extreme excitement."
The ceremony of "pool cup owner" was initiated by Amy Alcott after two championships – 1988 and 1991. At that time, the tournament was held on Dinah Shore course in the Mission Hills golf complex, California. After the 2022 tournament, the event also ended 50 years of association with Dinah Shore.
Last period, Vu was at T11 (-6), four strokes from the top of the table at the end of round 3. At that time, Yin was in T1 (-10) with Allisen Corpuz. In the last round, Vu started before these two players. She scored five birdies and a bogey, making it a go-to target for Yin, Corpuz, Atthaya Thitikul, Kim A Lim and world number two Nelly Korda.
However, Corpuz soon lost its fire, scoring three bogeys through seven holes and then floundering from there. Thanks to birdie on hole 18, Corpuz finished -8. This hole, Korda scored the eagle to return -9.
Meanwhile, Thitikul and Kim took the same turn to start, but missed the hole at the end of the field. When preparing for the second shot from the fairway, Thitikul -10 like Vu, Kim -8, Yin -11 and three holes left. If he scores eagle, Kim still has hope in the extra hole. But once Thitikul got the birdie, Kim and Vu ran out of chances to compete for the cup.
Neither of these possibilities happened, though, when Kim made contact with the ball on the heel and Thitikul hit the water hazard. Missing his approach to goal, the Korean player only kept par, coming in at -8, while Thitikul finished a double bogey and crossed the finish line with his teammates.
Yin finished hole 15 with a score of -11 but dropped to -9 due to bogey on the next two holes. On hole 18, she birdie to -10 and then lost when she returned to this hole to close the title with Vu.
"Before the finishing stroke, I was very nervous but I was able to reassure myself that 'I have practiced that situation a million times and this time will succeed,' Vu told the psychological development during the cup receiving ceremony with the bonus logo. . She received $765,000 in the $5.1 million bonus fund, and Yin received $479,680.
With the victory at Chevron Championship 2023, Vu finished first on the LPGA Tour for the second time, nearly two months away from the first, at Honda LPGA Thailand.
Vu is a former golfer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has been at the top of the world amateur golf table for 31 weeks. She competed professionally from the beginning of 2019, it took two years to plow through the second-place Epson Tour system to get the first-class LPGA Tour card, from 2022.
Time to find the way to promotion, Vu sometimes wanted to quit his job because he kept getting low results, and lost the person he loved.
