Brooke Henderson finishes 2nd at Coates Championship in rainy Ocala, Florida.

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Mother nature took a hand in the outcome of this rain soaked final round of the Coates Championship in Ocala Florida, but as the old saying goes " it was the same for everyone"

Brooke Henderson had the lead until she made a pair of three-putt bogeys over the final five holes as the rain worsened, forming puddles on the edges of the green. The greens crew used leaf blowers on some of the puddles to help the water evaporate.

She then tried to lay up on the par-5 18th with a hybrid and came within an inch of the hazard. With an awkward stance and a tough lie, she chunked a wedge to the front of the green, some 75 feet away, and did well to two-putt for par.

So she was drying out in the clubhouse at (72) -9 279, waiting to see if it would be enough for a playoff

Sadly for her she had to settle for second as she eventually finished two shots back of South Korean Ha Na Jang, who captured her first career LPGA Tour title making a late birdie to take the lead en route to a final-round 72 -11 277.

However always the optimist she had this to say afterwards “Starting the day, if I would have finished second, I would have been very happy,
a couple putts on the back nine kind of cost me, but overall it was a good day, and I’m right in position where I want to be.”

Lydia Ko, the LPGA player of the year making her 2016 debut, was tied with Jang after they completed the third round Saturday morning at Golden Ocala.
Ko, however, fell apart in the middle of the final round. She made three straight bogeys to finish the back nine, then hit her tee shot into the water and made double bogey on the par-3 11th to fall five shots behind. She ran off three straight birdies late in her round to try to stay in it. Ko closed with a 75 and tied for third, three shots behind.

Jang was 15th on the LPGA money list last year as a rookie, when she was runner-up four times. The player of the year on the Korean LPGA in 2013. She was a runner-up here last year.

Bryan Angus
(notes from lpgatour.com, CP. AP)