LOTTE Championship R4

LOTTE Championship 2022 R4

April 13-16
Hoakalei Country Club, Ewa Beach, Oahu, Hawaii
$2,000,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

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South Korean Hyo Joo Kim won her fifth career LPGA Tour title with a final-round 71 to reach 11-under and capturing the LOTTE Championship by two strokes over Hinako Shibuno of Japan.

LOTTE Championship 2022 R4

“I have been playing LOTTE Championship since the inaugural championship, and then because of this being my sponsor I always wanted to win and do well. I guess so far, the records are not as I expected, as I would expect, and it was a little sad personally for me. However, I prepared a lot for this year’s championship so it’s all the more meaningful and special for me to win this championship this year.”

LOTTE Championship 2022 R4

Kim started the day with a three-shot lead but bogeyed the par-3 17th to drop her lead to just one. She made a great pitch from off the green at the 18th leaving herself a 2-foot birdie putt to take the victory.

“I’m proud of that shot,” said Kim. “Maybe I made a lot of people like sit on the edge of their chairs, so I felt great about it.”

LOTTE Championship 2022 R4

Shibuno carded two birdies in the final round for a bogey-free 70 but it was not enough to capture her first win since the 2019 AIG Women’s Open. It was enough for her best LPGA Tour finish since her major victory at Woburn.

“I was having very fun playing with (Kim),” said Shibuno. “My putting was a little, you know, couldn’t go in, so that was the difference with her.”

Kim’s countrywoman Hye-Jin Choi shot a final-round 69 to take solo third at 7-under, her best LPGA Tour finish since a tie for second at the 2020 ISPS Handa Vic Open as a non-Member.

South African Ashleigh Buhai finished fourth at 6-under followed by South Korea’s Somi Lee at 5-under.

American Brianna Do, who earned a spot in the tournament via the local qualifier on Sunday, played in the final group with Kim and Shibuno but could not recapture the magic that had been with her all week. With a 5-over 77 on Saturday she fell into a tie for 12th.

Allisen Corpuz, the only Hawaii resident in the field, finished in a tie for 18th at 1-under overall.

LOTTE Championship 2022 R4

Pos.	Player	To Par	Scores	Total
1	Hyo Joo Kim	-11	67-67-72-71	277
2	Hinako Shibuno	-9	71-70-68-70	279
3	Hye-Jin Choi	-7	70-70-72-69	281
4	Ashleigh Buhai	-6	71-71-70-70	282
5	Somi Lee	-5	71-70-69-73	283
T6	Atthaya Thitikul	-4	71-74-72-67	284
T6	Gerina Mendoza	-4	74-72-69-69	284
T6	Ryann O’Toole	-4	72-69-72-71	284
T6	Na Rin An	-4	71-68-73-72	284
T10	Brittany Altomare	-3	70-77-72-66	285
T10	Celine Boutier	-3	71-74-70-70	285
T12	Charlotte Thomas	-2	72-75-70-69	286
T12	Sophia Schubert	-2	75-71-69-71	286
T12	Andrea Lee	-2	71-70-73-72	286
T12	In Gee Chun	-2	72-70-71-73	286
T12	Ariya Jutanugarn	-2	70-68-73-75	286
T12	Brianna Do	-2	72-70-67-77	286
T18	Jodi Ewart Shadoff	-1	67-77-76-67	287
T18	Lauren Stephenson	-1	75-72-70-70	287
T18	Jennifer Kupcho	-1	74-72-71-70	287
T18	Lydia Ko	-1	69-75-73-70	287
T18	Emily Kristine Pedersen	-1	74-69-71-73	287
T18	Allisen Corpuz	-1	70-72-72-73	287
T18	Ruixin Liu	-1	71-74-67-75	287
T18	Stephanie Meadow	-1	71-70-69-77	287
T26	Emma Talley	Par	75-71-71-71	288
T26	Esther Henseleit	Par	75-70-72-71	288
T26	Gaby Lopez	Par	68-77-72-71	288
T26	Anna Nordqvist	Par	70-77-69-72	288
T26	Perrine Delacour	Par	71-72-73-72	288
T26	Stephanie Kyriacou	Par	71-71-73-73	288
T26	Sarah Kemp	Par	68-69-78-73	288
T26	Chella Choi	Par	70-73-71-74	288
T26	Gemma Dryburgh	Par	67-73-74-74	288
T35	Georgia Hall	+1	70-75-76-68	289
T35	Cheyenne Knight	+1	70-71-77-71	289
T35	Wichanee Meechai	+1	74-72-71-72	289
T35	Min Lee	+1	69-73-75-72	289
T35	Kelly Tan	+1	71-72-72-74	289
T35	Megan Khang	+1	72-72-67-78	289
T41	Amy Olson	+2	76-71-74-69	290
T41	Yu Liu	+2	74-72-74-70	290
T41	Lindsey Weaver-Wright	+2	71-74-72-73	290
T41	Janie Jackson	+2	68-72-77-73	290
T41	Aditi Ashok	+2	67-73-76-74	290
T41	Haeji Kang	+2	68-70-78-74	290
T41	Annie Park	+2	73-73-69-75	290
T48	Su Oh	+3	74-73-77-67	291
T48	Haru Nomura	+3	74-73-75-69	291
T48	Leona Maguire	+3	71-75-76-69	291
T48	Ana Belac	+3	75-71-73-72	291
T48	Jeongeun Lee5	+3	71-71-77-72	291
T48	Alison Lee	+3	67-76-75-73	291
T48	Hannah Green	+3	66-76-75-74	291
T48	A Lim Kim	+3	72-67-76-76	291
T56	Yealimi Noh	+4	77-70-74-71	292
T56	Matilda Castren	+4	74-72-75-71	292
T56	Yuka Saso	+4	73-74-73-72	292
T56	Giulia Molinaro	+4	74-73-72-73	292
T56	Maria Fassi	+4	70-76-72-74	292
T56	Albane Valenzuela	+4	70-75-72-75	292
T56	Pernilla Lindberg	+4	71-72-71-78	292
T56	Dewi Weber	+4	70-74-69-79	292
T64	Paula Reto	+5	71-73-83-66	293
T64	Linnea Johansson	+5	70-77-73-73	293
T64	Dottie Ardina	+5	72-75-71-75	293
T67	Bianca Pagdanganan	+6	70-77-78-69	294
T67	Ayaka Furue	+6	71-73-78-72	294
T67	Lilia Vu	+6	73-73-75-73	294
T67	Isi Gabsa	+6	71-72-77-74	294
T67	Dana Finkelstein	+6	72-71-75-76	294
72	Frida Kinhult	+8	74-72-75-75	296
73	Jenny Coleman	+9	72-75-75-75	297
T74	Yu-Sang Hou	+10	71-76-78-73	298
T74	Ssu-Chia Cheng	+10	71-75-76-76	298
76	Anne van Dam	+11	71-76-75-77	299
77	Mi Hyang Lee	+14	72-73-76-81	302
	Carlota Ciganda	CUT	76-72	148
	Pajaree Anannarukarn	CUT	75-73	148
	Casey Danielson	CUT	75-73	148
	Maude-Aimee Leblanc	CUT	75-73	148
	Jasmine Suwannapura	CUT	75-73	148
	Savannah Vilaubi	CUT	75-73	148
	Brooke Matthews	CUT	74-74	148
	Marissa Steen	CUT	74-74	148
	Celine Herbin	CUT	73-75	148
	Maddie Szeryk	CUT	73-75	148
	Jenny Shin	CUT	77-72	149
	Olivia Cowan	CUT	76-73	149
	Peiyun Chien	CUT	75-74	149
	Jessica Peng	CUT	74-75	149
	Lauren Coughlin	CUT	73-76	149
	Wei-Ling Hsu	CUT	73-76	149
	Ruoning Yin	CUT	79-71	150
	Jennifer Chang	CUT	76-74	150
	Karis Anne Davidson	CUT	76-74	150
	Allison Emrey	CUT	76-74	150
	Eun-Hee Ji	CUT	76-74	150
	Amanda Doherty	CUT	74-76	150
	Lindy Duncan	CUT	74-76	150
	Cristie Kerr	CUT	74-76	150
	Agathe Laisne	CUT	74-76	150
	Kaitlyn Papp	CUT	74-76	150
	Nicole Broch Estrup	CUT	73-77	150
	Gina Kim	CUT	73-77	150
	Lauren Kim	CUT	72-78	150
	Brittany Lincicome	CUT	72-78	150
	Jiwon Jeon	CUT	78-73	151
	Sandra Gal	CUT	76-75	151
	Vivian Hou	CUT	76-75	151
	Min Song Ha	CUT	75-76	151
	Alana Uriell	CUT	74-77	151
	Sophia Popov	CUT	72-79	151
	Pauline Roussin-Bouchard	CUT	80-72	152
	Rachel Rohanna	CUT	77-75	152
	Jing Yan	CUT	77-75	152
	Moriya Jutanugarn	CUT	76-76	152
	Angela Stanford	CUT	76-76	152
	Nasa Hataoka	CUT	75-77	152
	Youngin Chun	CUT	74-78	152
	So Young Lee	CUT	74-78	152
	Teresa Lu	CUT	72-80	152
	Haylee Rae Harford	CUT	71-81	152
	Inbee Park	CUT	80-73	153
	Katie Yoo	CUT	79-74	153
	Sarah Schmelzel	CUT	77-76	153
	Caroline Inglis	CUT	75-78	153
	Weiwei Zhang	CUT	75-78	153
	Liz Nagel	CUT	74-79	153
	Cydney Clanton	CUT	80-74	154
	Fatima Fernandez Cano	CUT	80-74	154
	Mirim Lee	CUT	77-77	154
	Morgane Metraux	CUT	81-74	155
	Jennifer Song	CUT	75-80	155
	Suzuka Yamaguchi	CUT	78-78	156
	Katherine Perry-Hamski	CUT	77-79	156
	Sarah Jane Smith	CUT	80-77	157
	Pornanong Phatlum	CUT	78-79	157
	Austin Ernst	WD	73
	Brooke M. Henderson	WD	74
	Mariah Stackhouse	WD	77
	Na Yeon Choi	WD	78
	Danielle Kang	WD	76
	Yaeeun Hong	WD