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Twelve months on, Lexi Thompson relives four-shot penalty nightmares | Ewan Murray

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American golfer says she is happy rule changes mean no one can suffer the way she did at the first women’s major of 2017

Who won the first women’s major of 2017? Some marquee golf events are better remembered for someone falling short rather than for the champion. Quiz fodder lies therein.

Ryu So-yeon is the answer to the question and she will try to retain the title at the ANA Inspiration in California which begins on Thursday . The last staging was overshadowed by such epic controversy involving Lexi Thompson, the player Ryu eventually defeated in a play-off, that virtually every leading name in golf had their say on the matter. Whether the American did indeed incorrectly replace her ball on a green was lost in the debate over whether it was appropriate for her to be informed of a four-shot penalty several holes later after intervention from those watching on television. Thompson went from the hunted to the hunter with one very public sanction.

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