Danielle Kang rallies to win LPGA Tour event in Ohio

Danielle Kang overcame a five-shot deficit on her final six holes Sunday to win her second straight LPGA Tour event, claiming victory when Lydia Ko carded a double bogey on the final hole in the Marathon Classic in Sylvania, Ohio.

Kang finished at 15-under 269 in winning for the fifth time in her LPGA Tour career.

“I’ve been playing really great consistently before and after quarantine,” Kang said. “I think a big part of how I’ve approached the golf game is I’m really not focused on a lot of other things other than just getting better at things I want to get better at.”

Kang began her rally with birdies on Nos. 13 and 14 and then all she needed were pars the rest of the way for a 3-under-par 68, all because of Ko’s shocking collapse.

Ko was poised to end two years and 44 tournaments without a victory. She made bogey on the 14th hole, and with Kang’s birdies, the lead suddenly was down to two. Ko dropped another shot on the 16th, and caught a break when Kang was in position for birdie on the par-5 17th and had to settle for par.

But on the closing par 5, Ko fell apart. She hit her chip through the green. With a slightly uphill lie in patchy rough, Ko muffed the chip and watched it roll into a bunker. She blasted that out to 10 feet and missed the putt that would have forced a playoff. She wound up with a 73.

“I think it’s God’s way of telling me it wasn’t my day,” Ko said.

U.S. Women’s Amateur: In Rockville, Md., Rose Zhang — a 17-year-old who has committed to Stanford — denied USC’s Gabriela Ruffels a second consecutive title in the event when Ruffels missed a 3-foot par putt on the 38th hole.

Neither player led by more than 2 up the entire 36-hole match, and they halved the last five holes with pars to force extra holes for the...