After heartbreaking KPMG runner-up, Lexi Thompson fined for sluggish play

3 years ago Philip Hutton

Speak about including insult to damage.

Following her runner-up end on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship, Lexi Thompson was fined $2,000 by the LPGA for sluggish play on Sunday at Congressional Nation Membership. Thompson’s father, Scott, confirmed the information to Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nicholas, who reported the information.

Thompson was enjoying within the remaining threesome, which was placed on the clock early on the again 9, with eventual champion In Gee Chun and Hye-Jin Choi. Choi was additionally fined for sluggish play.

Each gamers had been reportedly advised after they walked off the 18th inexperienced.

Major Moments: KPMG Women’s PGA, best shots from Round 4 — **Main Moments: KPMG Ladies’s PGA, finest photographs from Spherical 4**

Full-field scores from the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship

“I’m all for serving to sluggish play, however placing these girls on the clock with 2 holes left attempting to win a serious looks like an excellent learn the room scenario and don’t put them on the clock,” tweeted PGA Tour participant Justin Thomas.

Thompson bogeyed 4 holes on the again 9, together with lacking two essential quick par putts, to cough up a two-shot lead and end a stroke behind Chun.