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(Las Vegas, Nevada – 5 April 2026) - Lauren Coughlin maintained ice-cool composure as she held off the challenge of a stellar field and kept mistakes to a minimum on a treacherous back nine to complete a wire-to-wire victory by five shots at the $4m Aramco Championship on Sunday.
Two strokes ahead of fellow American and World No. 2 Nelly Korda overnight in the PIF Global Series event co-sanctioned by the LPGA and Ladies European Tour (LET), Coughlin closed with a level-par 72 to clinch her third LPGA Tour title. It was her first on U.S. soil.
She finished with a seven-under total after a picture-perfect afternoon of dazzling sunshine and a big Easter Sunday crowd at Shadow Creek, five ahead of Korda and Ireland's Leona Maguire, who each birdied the final hole.
Lauren Coughlin of the United States after her commanding victory in the Aramco Championship in Las Vegas on Sunday
Korda, bidding for her 17th LPGA Tour victory and her second this year, had to settle for a third successive runner-up spot after carding a 3-over 75 while Maguire returned a 71.
Coughlin was able to celebrate her second wire-to-wire triumph on the LPGA Tour, with her first coming at the 2024 ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open.
However, this one will taste all the sweeter, given the stellar strength of the field at Shadow Creek where every player in the top 20 of the Rolex Women's World Rankings, and 38 of the top 40, teed it up in the opening round.
Coughlin played 127 holes in finishing runner-up at the T-Mobile Match Play event at Shadow Creek last year, and her experience of the course certainly reaped rich dividends at this week's Aramco Championship
"I just know I played really, really great all week," said the 33-year-old from Minneapolis. "Had a lot of fun. I'm just happy. You know, definitely left a sour taste in my mouth last year not getting the W given how well I played all week, so makes it extra special this week.
"It's extremely validating. Going toe to toe with Nelly, No. 2 ranked player in the world in the same group, final group on a Sunday is extremely cool and hopefully give me a lot of confidence going into the rest of the year."
Coughlin came into this week's Aramco Championship ranked 32nd in the world, and she is projected to climb to 12th when the updated Rolex Rankings are published on Monday.
Korda, who won the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions in her first start of the season to register her 16th career victory on the LPGA Tour, was bitterly disappointed by her form in the final round.
"I just didn't play good golf today," said the 27-year-old from Bradenton, Florida. "I was hitting it pretty poorly off the tee and just finding myself in really tough positions going into the greens, and then hitting it in places where I shouldn't be around the greens.
"It was quite hard to make an up and down. This golf course is brutal, especially if you're on the wrong side of the green. Props to Lauren. She played some unbelievable golf. It was really fun to see today and it was fun to play alongside her."
Two strokes ahead of Korda overnight, Coughlin made a fast start to the final round with a birdie at the par-4 first to stretch her lead to three.
She then benefited from a Korda bogey at the sixth where the World No. 2 missed the green with her approach and was unable to get up and down to save par. That gave Coughlin a four-shot cushion at 8-under.
At the par-3 eighth, Coughlin stunningly profited from a two-shot swing. Moments after she had rolled in a slick 45-foot birdie putt, Korda lipped out from just two feet to record a three-putt bogey and gift Coughlin a six-stroke advantage.
On the more difficult back nine where the greens ran fast and firm, Coughlin stumbled with bogeys at the par-4 10th and the par-4 12th for her lead to be trimmed to four shots.
Korda, meanwhile, was unable to replicate her impressive form from the previous round. She three-putted for bogey at the par-3 13th and then dropped another shot at the par-4 15th – and Coughlin was once again six ahead of the chasing pack.
Big Easter weekend crowds watched champion Lauren Coughlin in action on Sunday at the Aramco Championship in Las Vegas
Although Coughlin bogeyed the par-3 17th after her tee shot ended up in a back bunker, she finished with a flourish - a superb approach at the last settling just two feet from the flagstick for a tap-in birdie.
China's Ruoning Yin posted the lowest score in the final round, mixing six birdies with a lone bogey on her way to a 67 that earned her a share of seventh place at 1-over.
The Aramco Championship in Las Vegas is the second of five elite PIF Global Series events in 2026 that are part of the Ladies European Tour. The first of them this season was the PIF Saudi Ladies International in Riyadh, won by England's Charley Hull in February, and the remaining three will take place in other golfing powerhouse markets – London, Seoul and Shenzhen.
Coughlin’s brilliant win also capped off a memorable week for the Golf Saudi-organized event which featured hundreds of clinics for local youngsters from the Las Vegas area, bumper Easter weekend crowds as well as discussion panels and initiatives around investment and tourism between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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