Lydia Ko, Celine Boutier and Maude-Aimee Leblanc comprised Sunday’s final threesome at the Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open, Ko and Boutier tied for the lead with Leblanc a shot back entering the final round.
All three were mathematically eliminated from contention before teeing off on the par-5 18th hole at Dundonald Links.
That’s because Ayaka Furue, the 22-year-old reigning Japan LPGA player of the year, went out in the fourth-to-last group, four strokes off the lead after 54 holes, and orchestrated a remarkable comeback. She fired a course-record, 10-under 62 – a round fueled by a run of six straight birdies starting on the sixth hole – to not only win her first LPGA title but do so convincingly, by three shots at 21 under.