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“My first one didn’t really feel like a win at the time,” Shin
said. “I didn’t feel like I deserved it. It felt very
accidental. But this one definitely feels a lot different. This
one feels like I earned it. I worked hard for it.”
Shin was in tears after the final putt dropped on the 18th and
was doused with water and champagne by a group of friends.
Leading since the first round, Shin could afford three straight
bogies on Nos. 6-8 after starting the final round with a
five-shot lead over Thailand's Pajaree Anannarukarn (74). Shin
also bogeyed two of the last three holes but had made two
birdies earlier.
“I wasn’t as nervous as yesterday,” Shin said. "I feel like I’ve
done everything right but just wasn’t hitting it like I was the
last three days and just hitting it into bunkers and bushes and
that wasn’t fun.
“With three bogies in a row, I thought, ‘oh boy, I don’t know
where this is going to go’. But yeah, I hung in there, so I’m
quite proud of myself and very happy.”
Shin is now thinking about the next challenge.
"I’m going to do everything I can to win again," Shin said. “I
can’t believe it happened this week.”
A Lim Kim finished second after a 4-under 68, with four straight
birdies helping her leapfrog two shots ahead of Anannarukarn,
who dropped to third.
The Women’s Scottish Open comes between the final two majors —
the Evian Championship and the Women’s British Open starting
Thursday at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
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