Dottie Ardina closed out with a four-under 67 and finished tied for 20th while Bianca Pagdanganan wound up joint 59th at the close of the Marathon LPGA Classic in Sylvania Sunday won by American Danielle Kang.
Ardina, 26, carded nines of 33-34 capped by a birdied on the par-5 18th hole for a four-day total of six-under 278 to tie Chinese Xiyu Lin (68), Stephanie Meadow (68) of Northern Ireland, Korean Jenny Shin (69) and Taiwan’s Peiyun Chen (72) at 20th.
Each pocketed $18,138 with Ardina redeeming herself from a missed cut stint in the Drive On Championship in Toledo last week.
Pagdanganan, meanwhile, hardly recovered from a disastrous 77 that dropped her to 62nd after starting the third round at joint eighth although she closed out with back-to-back birdies to save par 71.
She ended up at tied 59th with five others and received $4,125 after taking her first paycheck of $6,862 for finishing joint 28th at Drive On.
The 22-year-old SEA Games double gold medalist hit two other birdies (Nos. 2 and 13) but fumbled with a couple of double bogeys, the kind of mishaps that ruined her third round bid at the Highland Meadows Golf Club.
Kang got the win after erstwhile leader Lydia Ko double-bogeyed the last hole to snatch a one-stroke victory on a 68-269 worth $255,000 in a big follow-up to her victory at Drive On, also via one-shot over France’s Celine Boutier.
Ko held on the lead up to No. 17 but muffed a chip on a slightly uphill lie in the rough on the 18th, the ball rolling into a bunker. She blasted to 10 feet but flubbed the putt that would’ve forced a playoff. She wound up with a 73 and enabled England’s Jodi Shadoff to tie her at second at 270 with a 67.
