Kim beats Inkster in playoff to win SemGroup Championship Sunday

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) - Mi Hyun Kim won a playoff on the first extra hole with Hall of Famer Juli Inkster to capture the SemGroup Championship on Sunday, the South Korean’s first LPGA Tour victory of the year.\nKim missed a 5-footer for par on the 18th to force the playoff with Inkster, who had birdied the hole minutes earlier. On her second try at No. 18 in the playoff, Kim sank a 4-foot putt for par after Inkster made bogey.\nKim started the round one shot behind the leaders and won for the eight time on the tour. Inkster, who will turn 47 next month, would have been the oldest player to win an LPGA Tour event. She closed with a 2-under 69 in regulation.\nKim, who shot a 71, and Inkster finished regulation one shot ahead of Ai Miyazato and Angela Stanford. Three others were at 1 under, including Lorena Ochoa and Stephanie Louden, who began the day in a fourway tie for first.\nKim, whose last tour win in 2006 came after a three-hole playoff with Natalie Gulbis in the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, hit her second shot in the playoff to the fringe on the back of the green, about 35 feet from the hole, and two-putted.\nInkster’s second shot sailed over the green. She chipped 8 feet past the hole but missed the par putt right.\nSix players held the lead at some point on a cloudy, humid day. The par-71 Cedar Ridge Country Club course was soggy from storms that hit Oklahoma the past week.\nMoments after Inkster had bogeyed No. 17 to fall out of the lead, Kim curled in a breaking 15-foot birdie putt at No. 16 to take a two-shot edge. Inkster hit a 6-foot birdie putt on No. 18 to close the gap to one shot.\nKim hit her tee shot into the rough on the par-4 17th, but salvaged par, knocking a 5-foot putt into the center of the hole. On the 18th, her tee shot landed in the middle of the fairway but she hit into a greenside bunker and three-putted for bogey.\nThe round started with four co-leaders – Nicole Castrale, Reilley Rankin, Louden and Karin Sjodin – and none having won on the tour. One by one, they all fell back.\nCastrale, who led after the opening round, was still at 4 under through five holes, but bogeyed four of the next eight. Louden had four bogeys in her first six holes.\nSjodin, who played nearby Oklahoma State, was tied with Inkster for the lead after a 3-foot birdie putt on No. 6, but big trouble followed on the 405-yard, par-4 eighth hole.\nSjodin’s drive went into the deep rough and rolled into a ravine to the right of the fairway. Instead of trying to punch out, she tried an approach shot to the green that caromed off a tree at a 90-degree angle. Her ball ended up in tall grass by a tree adjacent to the 12th fairway, and she kicked her golf bag after seeing where her ball landed.\nAfter taking a drop about 20 yards behind where her ball landed, she reached the green with her next shot, but three-putted from 70 feet for a triple bogey.\nInkster birdied the first two holes, chipped in for par at No. 4 and took the lead with a birdie on No. 6. She held at least a share of it until the bogey at No. 17.\nTour officials moved up Sunday’s tee times by two hours and used threesomes instead of twosomes in a successful effort to avoid weather problems.