Brittany Lincicome won the LPGA Tour's season-opening Pure Silk Bahamas Classic Sunday in wind and some late rain, beating US Solheim Cup teammate Lexi Thompson with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff. Playing a group ahead of Thompson, Lincicome birdied the par-5 18th - after dropping strokes on 14 and 17 - for a 5-under 68 and 26-under 266 total - one off the tour record for relation to par to by Annika Sorenstam on a par-72 course in the 2001 Standard Register Ping. With Lincicome looking on from a tent, Thompson played the 18th as strong sideways rain blew through the Ocean Club, holing a 3-footer for her third straight par and a 70. "I was thinking that I was very lucky," Lincicome said. "Obviously, the last three or four holes for all of us was really unfortunate. It was gusting. The par 3 that we played, I was just trying to hit it on the front of the green and I took three extra clubs. It was blowing almost 35 miles an hour into, and when it started pouring I was already done, so I was feeling blessed that I was already done and didn't have to compete with the elements. So, for Lexi to make par on 18 with those conditions is pretty awesome." The first US winner since Brittany Lang in the US Women's Open, the 31-year-old Lincicome won her seventh tour title and first since the 2015 ANA Inspiration. She's projected to jump from 48th to 34th in the world ranking. In the playoff on 18, Lincicome hit her hybrid second shot from 227 yards to 20 feet and tapped in for birdie. Thompson went through the green in two and, after Lincicome holed out, missed a 15-foot birdie try. Stacy Lewis, undone by a triple-bogey 7 on No. 14, was third at 25 under after a 71. Lewis was second in 2014 and tied for second last year. The Texan is winless since June 2014. Gerina Piller (71) completed the Solheim Cup quartette atop the leaderboard at 24 under. Nelly Korda birdied the two late par 5s in a 67 to tie for fifth at 21 under in her first start as an LPGA Tour member. The 18-year-old Korda is the sister of Jessica Korda - the 2014 winner who shot a 65 on Sunday to tie for 16th - and daughter of former tennis player Petr Korda. Pornanong Phatlum matched Nelly Korda at 21 under, also finishing with a 67. Lincicome earned $210,000. Wang wins Qatar Masters IN Doha, South Korea's Wang Jeung-hun squandered an overnight three-shot lead but held his nerve to win a thrilling Qatar Masters in a tense, three-way playoff Sunday. Wang holed a five-foot putt on the first playoff hole to secure a hard-fought victory over South Africa's Jaco Van Zyl and Sweden's Joakim Lagergren. The trio had all finished sixteen-under-par to force the playoff. The victory is Wang's third European Tour event title and confirms his growing potential as he has already been tipped by some as a future Major winner. Wang is also the first Asian winner of the Qatar Masters, now in its 20th year.
