Wigger Wins Symetra Championship At Sweetgrass
HARRIS---Leah Wigger opened her final round at the Island Resort Championship with back-to-back birdies on Nos. 1 & 2 and never looked back en route to a three-stroke victory over Victoria Elizabeth, Victoria Park and Nicole Jeray. Wigger’s win is the second of her career on the Symetra Tour and first since 2008.
Leah Wigger with her trophy.
Wigger said her strong start scared her at first, saying that opening up with birdies tends to go against a feeling she likes to have at the beginning of her rounds.
Wigger sank a 30-foot put on the par 4 No. 2 to take a three-stroke lead on Aimee Neff. Neff would go on to card three bogeys on the back nine to slip out of contention while Wigger followed up her bogey on No. 9 with her last birdie of the day on the par 4 No. 10. “That definitely helped because I bogeyed No. 9 and hit it in the water off the tee,” said Wigger. “So to be able to bounce back with a birdie definitely helped.”
“I don’t like looking at scoreboards,” said Wigger. “I actually had to ask Vicky when I hit it in the bunker on No. 18, ‘where do I stand?’ so I could make my decision whether I had to go for it or not because I really didn’t want to hit that shot.” Fellow Tour player Victoria Alimonda Lovelady and friend of Wigger’s was on the bag for her on Sunday after she missed the cut. Wigger played her final shots safe and closed out the tournament to earn her second-career Symetra Tour victory. A group of friends stormed the 18th green and doused her with plenty of water to get her soaked in victory. “It was a bit cold,” Wigger said of the celebratory shower. “I can’t believe they did it in my white shorts, but what are friends for?” |