Australia's Hannah Green stormed back from a six-shot deficit on the back nine and won a three-way play-off with a birdie putt to capture her third title in four years at the JM Eagle LA Championship on Sunday in California.
Green defeated South Koreans Jin Hee Im and Sei Young Kim when the trio replayed the par-four 18th hole at El Caballero Country Club.
Before that, Green made a late charge with four straight birdies and five in a six-hole span, and she needed help in the form of a bogey by then-leader Kim at the par-three 17th hole to create a tie at 17-under par.
Green signed for 68, Kim settled for a 70 and Im had a 67 in the fourth round before they returned to the tee box for the play-off.
While Im missed the fairway and the green, Green and Kim were in the fairway and Green stuck her approach reasonably closer than Kim. After Kim missed a long birdie try and cleaned up for par, Green's putt in the 12-foot range curled right to left and dropped.
Green, 29, has won three of the four editions of the LA Championship and three of her eight LPGA victories have come at the event. She claimed the 2023 and 2024 editions that were played at Wilshire Country Club, the former coming in a three-way playoff as well.
Green, Im and Kim all will benefit from Saturday's surprise announcement that the CEO of JM Eagle, Walter Wang, was raising the purse by $1million (€850k) to a total of $4.75m (€4m). Across women's golf, only the major championships and the CME Group Tour Championship are more lucrative.
With her second win of the season, Green rose into third in the season-long Race to CME Globe points standings, behind only Nelly Korda and South Korea's Hyo Joo Kim.
Irish trio Leona Maguire, Stephanie Meadow and Lauren Walsh failed to make the cut.
