Pure Silk 2021 R4
May 20-23
River Course at Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia
$1,300,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Wei-Ling Hsu eagled the 15th hole of the Pure Silk Championship while Moriya Jutanugarn double bogeyed, giving her a three stroke lead.

Pure Silk 2021 R4

Hsu birdied the 16th and parred the final two holes to close with a 68 and a 13-under, 271 total.

“I definitely never expected this. Like I said earlier this week, I was so tired. I didn't expect much. And definitely when I finished first round solo lead, I definitely thought about that, but the second round just knock me down a little bit because I had a 1-over par.”

“I think this is the happiest thing ever, how my caddie cried and somehow I just cried so hard the last hole. But I feel happy and just happy,” she added.

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This first victory for Hsu is also the first for Taiwan since Yani Tseng won the 2012 Kia Classic.

“I don't know like what this win means for [Taiwan], but I really hope that I can give them some positive thought and a good energy to believe something,” said Hsu who reported on the COVID-19 situation in her native country. “You can always believe something and it will actually happen. I know people are against to virus right now, sports are shutdown, but there is something that the player or the people or the Taiwanese playing a different sport out, different country, they can still cheer for.”

Pure Silk 2021 R4

Jutanugarn closed with a 70 to finish second two shots behind Hsu but she was proud of her performance this week.

“I mean, it's still a good week. I like to play in the last group on Sunday—that's always a good week. Of course, it's not finish I wanted to, but, you know, I still going to take a lot of good things from here.”

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Jessica Korda was also proud of herself for climbing the leaderboard the past couple of rounds.

“I'm proud of myself for keeping up out there. Kyle [my caddie] and I have been doing a lot of good work. This week was a little bit of guessing, especially we had a lot of wedges in and the ground is firm and numbers weren't the same. We are very, very tired. There was a lot of thinking going into this whole week. I'm excited for the U.S. Open.”

Pure Silk 2021 R4