Inbee Park wins second major with Kraft Nabisco Championship
RANCHO MIRAGE -- Inbee Park, a 24-year-old from South Korea who won the U.S. Open in 2008, earned her second major golf title Sunday with an emphatic four-stroke victory in the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club.
Park shot a final-round 69 to finish with a four-day total of 15-under-par 273. Park earned a winner’s check of $300,000. It was her ninth career win. Four of them came on the LPGA circuit in Japan.
A ninth-place finish was Park’s best previous finish here, and she becomes the fourth-youngest player to win the Kraft Nabisco event as well as the third Korean, along with Grace Park in 2004 and Sun Young Yoo last year.
Lizette Salas, a 23-year-old from Azusa USC, began the day three shots behind Park and in second place, but a double bogey on the first hole sent Salas into a downward spiral. She had a final-round 79 and finished tied for 25th.
Another Korean, So Yeon Ryu, 22, finished second by virtue of her final-round 65, the lowest round of the week. She finished with a four-day total of 11-under 277.
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