Park wins playoff to claim second successive major


  • Golf
  • Monday, 10 Jun 2013

Inbee Park of South Korea holds the trophy after winning the LPGA Golf Championship in Pittsford, New York June 9, 2013. REUTERS/Adam Fenster

(Reuters) - Park Inbee of South Korea won the LPGA Championship in a marathon Sunday finish, winning a three-hole sudden death playoff over Briton Catriona Matthew with a birdie on her 39th hole of play.

It was the 24-year-old Park's second major title of the season following her triumph in the Kraft Nabisco Championship and underlined her status as the women's world number one.

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