Inbee Park successfully defended her LPGA Championship title by beating Brittany Lincicome with a par on the first hole of a playoff Sunday.

On the playoff hole on Monroe Golf Club’s par 4 18th, Park hit her second into the rough behind the hole.

Lincicome hit her approach to the left fringe, nearly identical to her position on the final hole of regulation when she made a bogey to fall in the playoff.

Lincicome chipped six feet past the hole and failed to convert for bogey. Park, the winner last year at Locust Hill in a playoff with Catriona Matthew, chipped to three feet and calmly sank her par putt for the victory.

Park finished with a two under 70 to match Lincicome at 11 under 276. Lincicome had a 71.

The South Korean player won her fifth major title and fourth in the last two seasons

Seventeen-year-old rookie Lydia Ko of New Zealand, seeking to become the youngest major winner in LPGA history, shot a 70 to finish third at 8 under.

Karrie Webb was the best of the Australians in a share of 25th at even par 288.