Las vegas: Jenny Coleman pulled off the upset of the day at the LPGA Match-Play on Wednesday, knocking off world No.5 Brooke Henderson 1-up to open round-robin play at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Canada’s Henderson, a 10-time winner on the LPGA tour, got off to a hot start, taking a 3-up lead with birdies at the first three holes.
But Coleman pulled a hole back with a birdie at the fifth, won the 10th with a bogey and squared the match with a birdie to take the 11th hole.
She kept her nerve after Henderson again edged ahead at 13 — where the Canadian’s bogey beat Coleman’s double bogey — nabbing birdies at the par-five 14th and 16th to take the lead.
“Yeah, started off the first hole just fairway, green, 30-footer — almost went in. Picked up whatever for par,” Coleman said. “And then she comes over, drains a 30-footer. I was like, ‘All right.’
“Then the…
