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The 27-year-old's wire-to-wire victory at the Congressional
Country Club was her first title since she won on home soil at
the HanaBank Championship in October 2018, her only LPGA win
outside the majors.
"When I got in a slump, some people said, 'In-gee, you should
retire because your game is not good right now'," she recalled.
"But no matter what they said, I believed that I could win
again. I'm so proud now ... I stuck with it. I kept playing.
That's how I won this week. That's why I'm so thankful."
A sizzling course record eight-under-par 64 got Chun off to a
flyer in the opening round but a 75 in round three allowed the
chasing pack to close to within three shots.
Four bogeys on the front nine of Sunday's final round erased her
advantage and she turned around trailing American Lexi Thompson
by two shots at the top of the leaderboard.
"I want to tell truth," she said. "I couldn't control all the
pressure. This is why I had four bogeys.
"At the same time, you know, this course is never easy.
Congressional Country Club is a hard golf course, and we had
tough pin positions. Sometimes my golf is not perfect."
Two birdies with a single bogey as Thompson faltered on the back
nine, however, proved enough for Chun to take the title with a
par-par finish.
"I believed that if I stuck to my game plan then I had a chance
on the back nine," Chun added.
"So, I tried to hang in there. I'm so happy I made it. My body
is still shaking, though."
The win earned Chun a cheque for $1.35 million, a big jump from
the $487,500 she took home from her last major triumph at the
2016 Evian Championship.
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Peter Rutherford)
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