Matsuo Wins First Golf Championship
Mutsuko Matsuo sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday for a 1-over-par 73 and a two-stroke victory in the Appi women’s golf tournament. It was the first championship of her three-year professional career.
Matsuo started the final round 8-under par and six strokes ahead of Hiromi Kobayashi. She finished the three trips over the 6,301-yard, par-72 Appi Kogen Golf Club course at 7-under-par 209. Kobayashi wound up with a 211.
Matsuo, 26, received $46,000 and a Japanese-made car for the victory, and told reporters, “I will deposit the prize money in the bank.”
Kobayashi earned $23,000.
Yuko Moriguchi posted four birdies and one bogey en route to a 69 and a 212 total, and finished third.
American Holly Hartley shot a final-round 78 for a 223.
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