SYLVANIA, Ohio —Kim In-kyung recorded her second win of the season in style with an emphatic four-stroke victory at the Marathon Classic in Ohio on Sunday.

The South Korean charged with six birdies on the front nine, before adding two more on the inward half for an eight-under-par 63 on the Highland Meadows course in Sylvania.

She finished at 21-under 263, while American Lexi Thompson (66) claimed second place on 17-under. Overnight leader Nelly Korda faded with a 74 to tie for eighth, nine strokes off the pace.

In notching her second victory of the season and sixth of her career, Kim joined countrywoman Ryu So-yeon as the second multiple winner of the LPGA Tour this year. "I really didn't expect anything," said Kim, who started the day two strokes behind Korda.

"Maybe I think that's why I played really well today. (There were) really good names are on top of the leaderboard, and I just wanted to go out and make the most out of it, and today I was able to do that."

Thompson also had a fast start with four birdies on the front side, but stalled with bogeys at the 10th and 12th holes. She birdied three of the final four holes to notch her fifth runner-up finish of the season. "I'm very happy with just the way I played, the way I handled myself out on the golf course," said Thompson.

"You know, it's not my 100 percent ball-striking week, but I managed to do what I had to with how I was playing and how I was hitting the ball. Seventeen under, I'm never going to complain with that."

Rookie Murray seals

first PGA Tour title

A lucky break at the 13th hole paved the way for PGA Tour rookie Grayson Murray to win the Barbasol Championship by one stroke in Alabama on Sunday.

Murray hung his head in disgust after pulling his seven-iron approach shot at the par-five, fearing his ball would find a greenside bunker, but it barely cleared the sand before taking a big bounce and then a hard right turn, trickling down to within five feet of the hole.

He capitalized on his good fortune by sinking the eagle putt to take the lead and held on to edge fellow American Chad Collins by one stroke, with overnight leader Scott Stallings among a trio two shots back.

Collins, after three consecutive birdies, had a chance to tie it up at the par-four 18th, but missed a five-foot birdie putt with a weak attempt that failed to reach the hole.

Murray then held his nerve and holed a four-footer for his maiden tour victory before emotionally hugging his parents. He carded 68 and finish at 21-under-par 263 at the Robert Trent Jones golf Trail Grand National course in Opelika.

"The amount of work I’ve put in over my lifetime, seeing my parents walking up now, how much they’ve sacrificed for this moment, it’s very special,” Murray, 23, said in a greenside interview.

"I knew this was going to be the toughest year of them all and now I have a two-year exemption I can play stress-free.” — Reuters