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Ruoning Yin Overtakes Choi To Win Home Tourney In Shanghai

Ruoning Yin delivered a commanding performance to claim her seventh LPGA Tour title at the Buick LPGA Shanghai, overcoming a late-season challenge with precision and composure. The 24-year-old Chinese golfer edged out Hye-Jin Choi in a dramatic final round at Sheshan Golf Club, shooting an 11-under-par 277 to secure victory.

Yin’s clutch putting on the back nine—including a key 4-foot birdie on the 16th and a decisive par-3 putt on the 17th—turned the tide after she trailed Choi by two strokes entering Sunday. The win capped a dominant late-season run, as Yin repeated as champion of this event just one year after her 2024 triumph, despite the course’s heightened difficulty, which she described as comparable to a major.

With $480,000 in prize money and the adoration of a home crowd, Yin’s victory solidified her status as one of the tour’s most consistent performers, while Choi settled for her seventh career runner-up finish after holding the 54-hole lead for the fifth time in her career.

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