UNABLE to overcome her inconsistency, Bianca Pagdanganan bogged down with a 75 yesterday and closed out the HSBC Women’s World Championship in a nine-way tie for 41st place at the Sentosa Golf Club Tanjong Course in Singapore.
After a 69 in the previous round, Pagdanganan unraveled early with a double bogey on hole No. 4, a par-three, then added a bogey on the ninth to go three-over 39 on the front nine of the par-72, 6,749-yard course.
She had two birdies and two bogeys coming home to wind up with a four-round total of 291, 16 shots behind Australian champion Hannah Green, and earned $7,493 (roughly P446,146) along with eight others
Two shots adrift of erstwhile Japanese frontrunner Ayaka Furue, who collapsed with a 75, Green gunned down successive birdies on the last three holes for her third straight 67 to post a one-shot win over Frenchwoman Celine Boutier, who also carded a 67.
The newly-married Australian tallied 279 and pocketed the top prize of $270,000 (P15.1 million), surpassing her runner-up finish in the 2021 edition of the competition, while Boutier settled for the second-place purse of $169,786 (P9.5 million).