Decatur, IL (SportsNetwork.com) – Madison Pressel birdied the first playoff hole on Sunday to defeat Ashley Tait and win the Decatur-Forsyth Classic, the lone major on the Symetra Tour.<\/p>\n
Pressel carded an even-par 72 to finish the tournament at 6-under-par 210. Tait, the second-round leader, stumbled to a bogey and a double-bogey over her final four holes en route to a 2-over 74 to cause the playoff.<\/p>\n
They then returned to the par-4 18th and both players found the green with their second shots.<\/p>\n
Pressel went first and converted her birdie effort before Tait failed to roll in hers to give Pressel her first career victory.<\/p>\n
Pressel’s up-and-down final round included three bogeys and three birdies.<\/p>\n
Hye-Min Kim (68) and Ashley Sholer (70) shared third place at 4-under, while Cheyenne Woods (72), Pinrath Loomboonruang (71), Therese Koelbaek (71), Shannon Fish (71), Laura Gonzalez Escallon (72) and Lee Lopez (74) tied for fifth at minus-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Decatur, IL (SportsNetwork.com) – Madison Pressel birdied the first playoff hole on Sunday to defeat Ashley Tait and win the Decatur-Forsyth Classic, the lone major on the Symetra Tour. Pressel carded an even-par 72 to finish the tournament at 6-under-par 210. Tait, the second-round leader, stumbled to a bogey and a double-bogey over her final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}