Ji-Yai Shin was six shots down at the start of the day but she came back to win the HSBC Women's Champions.  It is the fourth LPGA victory of her career, all of them coming since August.  Katherine Hull finished two shots behind in second place at -9 while Angela Stanford, Paula Creamer and Angela Park tied for third at -8.

Hull began the day two strokes ahead of Stanford and opened with six straight pars.  Playing with her and Sun Young Yoo in the final group, Angela bogeyed three times in the first seven holes to fall five shots back when Katherine birdied 7 to reach -12.  Shin's charge started early - four straight birdies to start the round put her at -9.  Yoo played 2, 3 and 4 birdie-bogey-birdie to also reach -9.  Creamer birdied 2 and 3 to reach -8.  Playing a couple of groups ahead, Angela Park birdied four times in six holes to put herself at -8.  With Mi Hyun Kim and Jane Park also at -8, we had seven players in striking distance should Hull begin to stumble.  But when Katherine converted another birdie at 9 to go to -13, her lead was four.

The back nine scrambled everything.  Hull bogeyed 10 while Shin dropped a nine-footer for birdie at 11 to trim the lead to two.  At 13, Katherine had to take an unplayable lie penalty which led to a double-bogey (her partners Stanford and Yoo both took bogey there) and the lead was gone.  At this point she was tied with Ji-Yai at -10 with Yoo, Creamer and Angela Park at -8 and Kim at -7.  #14 shot holes in several players' chances - Creamer and Kim bogeyed it then Yoo and Hull did the same, Katherine's giving Shin sole possession of the lead.  At 15, Shin birdied from 12 feet to take a two-shot lead at -11.  Running out of holes, Creamer and Stanford both birdied 16 and 17 but Paula bogeyed 18 so they both finished at -8.  Hull wasn't done yet.  She birdied 17 to climb back within one.  Ji-Yai parred her last three to finish at -11.  Needing birdie at 18 to force a playoff, Katherine took bogey instead and the win belonged to Shin.

The highlights on Golf Channel will air at 5pm EDT so I might have more details afterwards.

UPDATE:  The "shown-as-live" coverage started with Shin teeing off at 17 and the final group playing into the 16th green.  The tournament's defining moments had already occurred (which we did see via "replay" at the top of the show).  GC could have done a little bit of cut-and-paste and given us the real-time action of Hull's troubles at 13.  Speaking of which - even after taking the unplayable there, Hull still had to punch her third out of a flower bed. 

Shin hit the pin at 17 - she two-putted from 12 feet for par.  Hull's birdie at 17 was a 12-footer.  Creamer's bogey at 18, which cost her a tie for second, was caused by her tee shot finding a fairway bunker.  Hull also drove way right at 18, costing her any real chance at a tying birdie.  Shin made her par putt at the final hole from 5 feet.  Hull was then left only with a hole-out attempt from the fairway to tie, which didn't happen.