Sagstrom Earns First LPGA Win at Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio

One start into the 2020 LPGA Tour season, and Madelene Sagstrom can now call herself an LPGA Tour winner.

The feat was not without drama. Sagstrom went into the final round of the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio in the final pairing, holding the 54-hole lead for the first time in her young LPGA Tour career. Playing with three-time Tour winner Nasa Hataoka, Sagstrom bogeyed twice and birdied once in her front nine, as Hataoka went bogey-free and recorded three birdies in her first nine holes.

At No. 10 the winds began to change for the Swede, as she chipped in from the bunker for birdie and went on to birdie No. 11. Hataoka clawed back after a bogey on No. 10 to birdie Nos. 15 and 16 to take the…