England’s Charley Hull made a late push to vie for the Kroger Queen City Championship on Sunday at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati, but ultimately it was Minjee Lee who topped Hull on the second hole of a playoff to collect her ninth career LPGA victory.

Lee was cruising with nine holes remaining but she made double bogey on the par-5 12th hole, then Hull birdied Nos. 14, 15 and 16 to end tied with Lee after regulation and the two went back to the 18th hole to settle the outcome. Both made par the first time, although Hull’s birdie putt from off the back of the green was a rotation short of going in, then Lee hit her approach, again on 18, to three feet to convert the birdie and the win. She took home a first-place prize of $300,000 from a $2 million overall purse.

The championship was the first of only four remaining full-field events on the LPGA schedule this year. The tour now breaks for two weeks for the Solheim Cup in Spain. Then, after stops in Arkansas and Texas, the tour shifts to a four-week Asia swing with limited-field tournaments before coming back in November for the end of the season.

In other words, for those trying to secure a place in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship — or just make sure their cards locked up for 2024 — time is of the essence.

Here’s the prize money payouts for all the players who made the cut this week.

Win: Minjee Lee, 272/-16, $300,000
P-2: Charley Hull, 272/-16, $181,723
3: Ruoning Yin, 274/-14, $131,827
4: Ally Ewing, 276/-12, $101,979
T-5: Mel Reid, 277/-11, $56,545
T-5: Mi Hyang Lee, 277/-11, $56,545
T-5: Ariya Jutanugarn, 277/-11, $56,545
T-5: Yuka Saso, 277/-1, $56,545
T-5: Morgane Metraux, 277/-11, $56,545
T-5: Peiyun Chien, 277/-11, $56,545
T-11: Hye-Jin Choi, 278/-10, $34,921
T-11: Cydney Clanton, 278/-10, $34,921
T-11: Andrea Lee, 278/-10, $34,921
T-14: Frida Kinhult, 279/-9, $29,934
T-14: Madalene Sagstrom, 279/-9, $29,934
T-16: Alexa Pano, 280/-8, $25,934
T-16: Pavarisa Yoktuan, 280/-8, $25,934
T-16: Nasa Hataoka, 280/-8, $25,934
T-19: Xiyu Lin, 281/-7, $22,485
T-19: Esther Henseleit, 281/-7, $22,485
T-19: Lexi Thompson, 281/-7, $22,485
T-19: Gaby Lopez, 281/-7, $22,485
T-23: Brooke Henderson, 282/-6, $17,983
T-23: Jenny Shin, 282/-6, $17,983
T-23: Hae Ran Ryu, 282/-6, $17,983
T-23: Dani Holmqvist, 282/-6, $17,983
T-23: Mariah Stackhouse, 282/-6, $17,983
T-23: Yealimi Noh, 282/-6, $17,983
T-23: Perrine Delacour, 282/-6, $17,983
T-23: Paula Reto, 282/-6, $17,983
T-31: Emily Kristine Pedersen, 283/-5, $13,849
T-31: Moriya Jutanugarn, 283/-5, $13,849
T-31: Elizabeth Szokol, 283/-5, $13,849
T-31: Jennifer Kupcho, 283/-5, $13,849
T-31: Rose Zhang, 283/-5, $13,849
T-36: Azahara Munoz, 284/-4, $11,262
T-36: Narin An, 284/-4, $11,262
T-36: Nanna Koerstz Madsen, 284/-4, $11,262
T-36: Gabriela Ruffels, 284/-4, $11,262
T-36: Hinako Shibuno, 284/-4, $11,262
T-41: Lauren Coughlin, 285/-3, $8,681
T-41: Stephanie Kyriacou, 285/-3, $8,681
T-41: Samantha Wagner, 285/-3, $8,681
T-41: Dana Fall, 285/-3, $8,681
T-41: Yuna Nishimura, 285/-3, $8,681
T-41: Pernilla Lindberg, 285/-3, $8,681
T-41: Linnea Strom, 285/-3, $8,681
T-41: Lydia Ko, 285/-3, $8,681
T-49: Maria Fassi, 286/-2, $6,682
T-49: Stephanie Meadow, 286/-2, $6,682
T-49: Ruixin Liu, 286/-2, $6,682
T-49: Muni He, 286/-2, $6,682
T-49: Yan Liu, 286/-2, $6,682
T-49: Jasmine Suwannapura, 286/-2, $6,682
T-55: Weiwei Zhang, 287/-1, $5,571
T-55: Sarah Kemp, 287/-1, $5,571
T-55: Linnea Johansson, 287/-1, $5,571
T-55: Arpichaya Yubol, 287/-1, $5,571
T-55: Dewi Weber, 287/-1, $5,571
60: Sei Young Kim, 288/E, $4,975
T-61: Dottie Ardina, 289/+1, $4,676
T-61: Jaravee Boonchant, 289/+1, $4,676
T-61: Jeongeun Lee6, 289/+1, $4,676
T-61: A Lim Kim, 289/+1, $4,676
T-61: Gina Kim, 289/+1, $4,676
T-66: Lauren Hartlage, 290/+2, $4,228
T-66: Brittany Altomare, 290/+2, $4,228
T-66: Christina Kim, 290/+2, $4,228
T-66: Angel Yin, 290/+2, $4,228
T-70: Sydnee Michaels, 291/+3, $3,930
T-70: Olivia Cowan, 291/+3, $3,930
T-70: Jennifer Song, 291/+3, $3,930
T-73: Yu Liu, 292/+4, $3,805
T-73: Mariajo Uribe, 292/+4, $3,805
T-75: Ines Laklalech, 293/+5, $3,735
T-75: Gabriella Then, 293/+5, $3,668
T-75: Bailey Tardy, 293/+5, $3,664
T-75: Pornanong Phatlum, 293/+5, $3,664
79: Xiaowen Yin, 294/+6, $3,548
80: Lindy Duncan, 296/+8, $3,503

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Ally Ewing reacts after making birdie on the 12th green during the final round of the Kroger Queen City Championship.. Dylan Buell
By Keely Levins

The LPGA Tour’s inaugural Kroger Queen City Championship saw a pro who has struggled this season breakthrough for her third LPGA Tour victory. Ally Ewing played the last seven holes in five-under to hold off a charging Xiyu Lin at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati. Ewing’s four-round total of 22-under was good for a one-shot victory over Lin. Ewing, 29, is the fifth American to win on the LPGA in 2022.

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Ewing first made herself known on the international professional golf stage when she was a late sub for an injured Stacy Lewis at the 2019 Solheim Cup. Then playing under her maiden name, McDonald, the All-American at Mississippi State went 1-3-0 in Scotland. Though she didn’t score many points for Team USA, it was her arrival on the big stage.

The next season, Ewing won the LPGA Drive on Championship by a shot over Danielle Kang. In 2021, she won again. This time, at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play over Sophia Popov. In the span of a few seasons, Ewing has gone from a relatively unknown pro to a three-season winner on tour. With the $262,500 winner’s cheque at Kroger, she breaks the $3 million mark in career earnings.

She’s only had one top-20 finish in a stroke-play event in 2022, and that was back in January. As Ewing’s worked through this difficult season, she says her husband, coaches and family have been her support system.

“They just keep drilling in me, It’s there. I promise it’s there. Just keep working at it. It’s there. And I just really trusted it and knew that if I kept working at it, it was going to be there,” Ewing said.

A bit of a breakthrough came in Canada when a change in her putting started to take hold. She shortened her backstroke a few weeks before the CP Women’s Open, and the change yielded a T-36 result. That was two weeks before the Kroger. Her game wasn’t exactly where she wanted it, but she could feel it was close.

“This week, I saw putts go in. Once I saw them go, I had that confidence,” Ewing said.

As Ewing celebrated in Cincinnati and hoisted the trophy, she felt the release of what was a tense day on the course.

“I struggled with nerves all day because I just haven’t been able to put this together for a full tournament this year,” Ewing said. “So, to see it and all the results finally come into place, it’s really exciting.”

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