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Inbee Park won the Manulife Financial Classic on Sunday (8 June) for her first LPGA Tour title in more than 11 months, matching the course record with a 10-under 61 for a three-stroke victory over Cristie Kerr.

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Inbee Park won the Manulife Financial Classic on Sunday, to claim her first LPGA Tour title in more than 11 months.

Park, who lost her number one world ranking last week to Stacy Lewis, started the day two strokes behind the leader Shanshan Feng. But the South Korean quickly moved to the top of the leaderboard by sinking five birdies on the front nine.

And the 25-year-old added to her lead by birdying four of the next five holes to claim the win -

SOUNDBITE (English): Inbee Park, LPGA Manulife Financial Classic champion:

"Just, I knew there were a lot of birdies and I was, the way I played today was, you know, everything seemed like trying to, it was trying to go in even if I didn't make it it looked like it was so close so, yeah, it's, the first time I really putted really well in a while so this is really happy that, you know, that my putter is finally back and, especially that it's, I think it's a really good timing."

Park ended a 20-event LPGA winless run with victory and became the 10th different player to win on the Tour this year.