Kyricaou in action today – photo Getty Images LPGA
Sydney’s Stephanie Kyriacou continued her impressive progress in the USA by recording her best finish on the LPGA Tour with a share of 4th place at the Dana Open in Sylvania in Ohio this morning.
The 22 year old, who is her second season on the LPGA Tour after finishing in an overall 55th place in her rookie season last year, recorded a final round of 69 over the Highland Meadows Golf Club layout to finish seven shots behind the first time winner, Linn Grant of Sweden (pictured below)
Linn won by three over last week’s US Women’s Open Champion Allisen Corpuz.
While Kyriacou’s cheque for US$81,000 is considerably lower than the US$156,000 she secured for her 10th place at last year’s KPMG PGA Championship, it will be a welcome addition to her bank account.
Kyricaou played in the final group with the winner, Grant, today and relished the experience. Playing with a new putter for the first time in some 12 years, she more than held her own against the highly talented Grant who is being touted as the next Swedish superstar.
Minjee Lee also had a solid week when she finished in 7th place, Grace Kim was 11th, Gabi Ruffels 23rd, Su Oh 41st, Sarah Kemp 53rd and Lydia Ko continued her recent struggles when she finished 65th, although Ko was unfortunately penalised sevens hots in the final round for incorrectly and inadvertently playing preferred lies on holes which were not included on the list for that relief.
