Sei Young Kim beat Ariya Jutanugarn one-up on Sunday to win the Lorena Ochoa Match Play in Mexico and bag her sixth LPGA Tour title.
Jutanugarn won the par-5 17th with a birdie to force another hole, but Kim finished off the match with a halve for a par on the par-4 18th.
In the morning semi-finals at Club de Golf Mexico, Kim beat Mi Jung Hur 5 and 4, and the third-ranked Jutanugarn defeated Michelle Wie 4 and 3.
Hur won the third-place match, overcoming a five-hole deficit to beat Wie in 22 holes.
Kim also beat Maude-Aimee Leblanc (3 and 1), Danielle Kang (3 and 2), Charley Hull (3 and 1) and Karine Icher (5 and 4) in the event that switched from stroke to match play and moved from November.
Following her win, the 24-year-old South Korean is projected to jump from 12th to eighth in the world rankings.
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