Celine Boutier goes again to again to seize Ladies’s Scottish Open

She has achieved it once more.

For the second straight week, Celine Boutier emerged victorious at an LPGA occasion. She gained the Freed Group Ladies’s Scottish Open by two strokes on Sunday, ending at 15-under for the championship at Dundonald Hyperlinks.

The final participant to win back-to-back tournaments on the LPGA Tour—with a significant championship included—was Nelly Korda in 2021. Korda gained the Meijer LPGA Traditional the week earlier than successful the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship on the Atlantic Athletic Membership.

As for Boutier, she claimed her first main championship final week on the Amundi Evian Championship in France.

“I’d have by no means imagined that I’d be capable of win not one, however two tournaments in a row,” Boutier stated after Sunday’s spherical. “I’m simply in shock. I don’t assume I do know what to say or what to assume. I believe it’s simply fully uncontrolled. I’m undecided what to assume.”

Coming into the ultimate spherical on the Ladies’s Scottish Open, Boutier held a three-shot lead over Patty Tavatanakit of Thailand.

The Frenchwoman started her spherical with 5 straight pars earlier than birdieing the par-3 sixth gap. She then birdied the ninth and the thirteenth, and it seemed like she was effectively on her solution to successful the Scottish Open with ease.

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However Boutier opened the door for different contenders on the par-5 14th gap. She missed a three-foot putt for par there, displaying some nerves on Scotland’s west coast.

Two holes later, on the sixteenth, Boutier dropped one other shot. When she walked to the seventeenth tee, she held only a one-shot lead over Hyo Joo Kim, the smallest lead she had all day.

Regardless of the stress ramping up down the stretch, Boutier remained regular. She wanted to complete par-par to safe the victory, and she or he did one stroke higher than that.

Her curling birdie putt on the seventeenth gap dropped with authority, which gave Boutier a two-shot benefit heading into the ultimate gap.

“I acquired a learn and tried to present it a run,” Boutier stated about her putt on the seventeenth. “I actually tried to get it to the opening, and it ended up entering into, which was an enormous bonus and undoubtedly made me really feel higher concerning the 18th.”

Boutier then performed the par-5 18th conservatively, making a simple par. She was once more showered with champagne on the placing floor as her entourage swarmed her to rejoice.

Now the previous Duke Blue Satan has her eyes set on the AIG Ladies’s Open, which is able to happen subsequent week at Walton Heath Golf Membership in Surrey, England.

Can Boutier go three-for-three? Maybe. However she is undoubtedly the favourite heading into the ultimate main of the 12 months on the LPGA Tour.

She would possibly even be the very best feminine participant on this planet proper now too.

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By. You may comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. You should definitely take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.