For the past two seasons on the LPGA tour, no one has had more top-10 finishes without a win than Ayaka Furue. After dropping a shot at the par-4 12th to fall three behind Lauren Coughlin and two behind Stephanie Kyriacou, it looked like the Amundi Evian Championship would mark 17 top 10s (including three in majors) with no victories for the 24-year-old from Kobe, Japan. Instead, the woman who’s been both a model of consistency and a player who has struggled finishing off wins finally found a way to close one out.

On the 14th tee, still three back of Coughlin, doubts crept in. Furue hadn’t given herself many birdie looks, and her caddie Michael Scott (yes, that’s his name) wondered if it wasn’t meant to be. Reflecting on the round after the fact, he said, “You’re starting to think maybe it’s not your day. But still five holes to go, and anything can happen coming down the stretch in a major championship.” Just minutes later, Furue would roll in a 32-foot birdie putt, flipping the day from what might have been to what could be.

It would take one more hole for Furue buy into her own chances. Another bomb found the bottom of the cup for birdie, this one from 39 feet. “After the 15th hole, I could gain my momentum. I could gain my confidence,” she said in her post-round interview. It seemed her playing partners, Coughlin and Kyriacou, could feel the momentum shift as well. The most experienced player in their group wasn’t going down without a fight.

Coughlin was the first to stumble, with a three-putt bogey at the 16th and a short miss for par at the 17th. Kyriacou matched Furue’s birdie at 16 with one of her own after an aggressive line off the tee left her near kick-in range. Nerves finally appeared in the form of a stubbed chip at 17, with the ensuing bogey leaving her tied with Furue at -17 heading to the 18th tee.

In an inexcusable and frankly infuriating turn of events, the broadcast didn’t show Furue’s pivotal tee shot at the 18th, where positioning is crucial in order to go for the short par 5 in two. Golf Channel was in a commercial break, cutting back just in time to catch Kyriacou teeing off.

After cutting to another commercial break, the broadcast finally enlightened viewers as to where Furue was off the tee, showing her just barely in the first cut of rough. With a decent lie, Furue pulled 6-iron and flirted with disaster, narrowly clearing the greenside pond before rolling out to 11 feet from the hole.

Her hot putter stayed hot, leading to an eagle on the 72nd hole to cap off a five-under par sprint to the finish, edging Kyriacou by one and sealing the biggest win of her career in style.

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