"Magic Princess" Pak Se-ri lost her touch on the third and final round of the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic early Monday (KST), at the Avalon Lakeside Golf Course, in Warren, Ohio, making five bogies that cost her six places to finish the tournament seventh overall. To the joy of her fans, Pak led for the first two days and there seemed to be hope that she might finally get her first win of the year.

Se-ri's long-time rival and peer, "Super Peanut" Kim Mi-hyun showed the world what she was capable of doing. In the last five holes, Kim grabbed four birdies to finish at nine under and surge from twelfth position to finish third.

The winner was nineteen-year-old Dorothy Delasin who birdied the final hole of regulation and then outlasted veteran Pat Hurst in a two-hole, sudden-death playoff to take home her first professional victory and US$ 150,000 prize money.

(Cho Jeong-hun, donjuan@chosun.com)