Women's Open: Lilia Vu wins at Walton Heath for second major title of 2023

Lilia Vu changeable 67 successful the last circular to triumph her 2nd large rubric of 2023

Lilia Vu produced a composed show to triumph the Women's Open astatine Walton Heath, her 2nd large rubric of 2023.

The American, 25, began the last circular tied with Hull for the lead and changeable a five-under 67 containing six birdies.

Hull's hold for a archetypal large triumph goes connected aft finishing successful a necktie for 2nd astatine the US Women's Open past period and this adjacent miss successful Surrey.

The last brace were briefly disrupted by a demonstration connected the 17th green, but play rapidly resumed, allowing Vu to implicit a comfy victory.

• Relive Vu's Women's Open victory

After being presented with the trophy, Vu said: "It sounds astir unreal. I had a beauteous pugnacious run-in the past mates of months.

"I didn't consciousness similar myself for the past mates of months truthful I came into this tournament, I sat down with my squad and we wanted to beryllium successful contention. That's each we wanted and someway this happened."

Hull 'deflated' aft different adjacent miss

Charley Hull narrowly missed retired connected a archetypal large title, contempt holing a bunker changeable for eagle connected the 11th

After struggling to support gait with Vu connected the beforehand nine, Hull holed a magnificent bunker changeable for eagle connected the 11th to determination wrong 3 shots of the lead.

But Vu responded with a superb attack changeable into the 12th green, mounting up a birdie which extended the spread to 4 and each but ended the chances of a archetypal English victor of the Women's Open since 2018.

The last circular promised to beryllium a fascinating spectacle, with location favourite Hull sharing apical spot with Vu astatine 9 nether and 11 different players wrong 5 shots of the 2 co-leaders.

But, 1 by one, Vu's chap competitors faltered and the satellite fig six broke clear.

She had established a three-shot pb by the clip she had near the 4th greenish and was 5 up of the tract aft consecutive birdies connected 9 and 10.

The stroke of conceding a two-shot plaything connected the 11th to 27-year-old Hull, by past her lone conceivable challenger, was rapidly forgotten.

Vu closed retired triumph with fewer alarms. Even erstwhile a wayward tee changeable into the heather connected the par-four 15th led to her archetypal bogey of the day, Hull was incapable to capitalise and made bogey herself.

"I consciousness a spot deflated," Hull told Sky Sports. "I don't consciousness similar thing went my mode today. I consciousness similar I really played rather solid, conscionable didn't truly spread galore putts.

"Truthfully I privation to beryllium with my manager astatine 10 o'clock time and I privation to enactment connected a load of stuff.

"I consciousness that I person travel adjacent doubly successful the 2 biggest majors, the US Open and the Women's Open, truthful I truly consciousness similar adjacent twelvemonth is my clip to triumph one."

South Korea's Jiyai Shin, doubly a Women's Open champion, finished 3rd connected 7 under.

World fig 1 Nelly Korda ended the tourney 2 nether par aft a two-over 74, portion chap American Ally Ewing - who had led by 5 shots astatine the halfway constituent astatine Walton Heath - finished connected 4 nether aft a disappointing 75.