Lexi Thompson finally appeared on the cusp of flipping her script in major championships. But when the plot reached its conclusion Sunday afternoon at Congressional Country Club, the ending was all too familiar.
Thompson had again fallen short in a major championship that she had control of.
After four back-nine bogeys, most of them the product of short misses with the putter, Thompson coughed up a late lead at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and finished one shot shy of champion In Gee Chun, who notched her third major triumph and first since 2016.
Thompson was vying to end her own major drought.