Just hours after countrywoman Minjee Lee lost in a playoff at the Korean LPGA’s Hana Financial Group Championship to record successive runner-up finishes, Oh was chasing a breakthrough LPGA Tour title at Seaview’s Bay Course.
Starting the third and final round four shots off the pace, consecutive birdies at the third and fourth holes saw Oh make a positive move up the leaderboard.
Two pars followed but back-to-back bogeys at seven and eight gave the 2016 Olympian too much ground to make up over the final nine holes.
She birdied both par-3s on the back nine to post three-under 68 and a three-round total of 10-under, four shots adrift of 2019 ISPS HANDA Vic Open winner Celine Boutier.
Runner-up at the Cambia Portland Classic two weeks ago, Oh moved up six spots to be now 40th in the Race to CME Globe standings, her previous best finish coming two years ago when she finished the year in 33rd position.
If Oh’s top-10 finish was a continuation of recent good form Deyen Lawson’s top-30 result at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland was a rare ray of sunshine in what has been a difficult year.
Tied for fifth at the Limpopo Championship on the Challenge Tour in April, Lawson had missed 17 cuts in his previous 19 starts, withdrew at the D+D Real Czech Masters and finished tied for 32nd at the Cazoo Open.
But in bitterly cold conditions very reminiscent of those he would have experienced growing up in Geelong, Lawson revelled in the challenge of three of Scotland’s most famous links courses.
Starting the week with a round of two-under 70 at Carnoustie, Lawson entered the final round at the Old Course at St Andrews just outside the top-10 but a back-nine of three-over 39 saw him fall to a share of 27th, a birdie at the famous 18th hole providing slight consolation.
The Aussie who was in real contention for a win on Sunday was cricket legend Shane Warne.
Partnering again with Kiwi Ryan Fox in the pro-am section, the pair shot a blistering final round of 56 to finish tied at the top with Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey and partner Maeve Danaher, Hoey’s superior individual score breaking the tie.
Elsewhere in Europe Blake Windred earned a share of 10th at the Swiss Challenge on the Challenge Tour, Peter Fowler was tied for 11th at the Farmfoods European Senior Masters and Stephanie Kyriacou was tied for 34th at the Estrella Damm Ladies Open in Spain.
No Aussies made the cut at the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi but three have advanced to the Second Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying School.
Veteran James Nitties, John Lyras and Justin Warren progressed to Second Stage to be conducted from October 12 with Final Stage to be held in Savanna, Georgia from November 4.
RESULTS
PGA Tour
Sanderson Farms Championship
MC Lucas Herbert, Cam Davis, Brett Drewitt
European Tour
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
T27 Deyen Lawson
T51 Brett Rankin
58 Min Woo Lee
MC Bryden Macpherson, Maverick Antcliff, Scott Hend, Travis Smyth, Jason Scrivener, Dimitrios Papadatos
LPGA Tour
ShopRite LPGA Classic
T7 Su Oh
T34 Katherine Kirk
T44 Sarah Kemp
T57 Hannah Green
MC Sarah Jane Smith
Korean LPGA Tour
Hana Financial Group Championship
2 Minjee lee
Japan Golf Tour
Vantelin Tokai Classic
T16 Dylan Perry
T54 Anthony Quayle
MC Todd Sinnott, David Bransdon
Korean PGA Tour
Hyundai Marine & Marine Engineering Choi Kyung-ju Invitational
T6 Junseok Lee
T22 Kevin Chun
Ladies European Tour
Estrella Damm Ladies Open
T34 Stephanie Kyriacou
MC Whitney Hillier, Amy Walsh
Challenge Tour
Swiss Challenge
T10 Blake Windred
Symetra Tour
Carolina Golf Classic
T11 Robyn Choi
MC Stephanie Na, Julienne Soo, Soo Jin Lee
Legends Tour
Farmfoods European Senior Masters
T11 Peter Fowler
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