MANILA, Philippines—Mia Piccio eagled the par-5 18th but still lost by one stroke to American Christina Miller Sunday in the IMGA/DLGA Championship at the IMG Academies Golf and Country Club in Bradenton, Florida.
Miller matched Piccio's closing two-under-par 70 to win the 36-hole tournament on the Laura Diaz FCWT (Future Collegians World Tour) with a 140 total.
Piccio, who started the round tied with Dottie Ardina for second place, just one stroke behind Miller, virtually kissed her title bid goodbye with back-to-back bogeys from No. 15.
The bespectacled shotmaker from Bacolod City, who had one win and two third place finishes on the tour, eventually finished solo second at 141.
The 16-year-old Miller birdied Nos. 2 and 3, dropped a stroke on the fifth but built enough cushion with birdies on Nos. 10 and 12 to negate another bogey on No. 16.
It was her second straight FCWT title after ruling the Mission Inn-Las Colinas tourney last February.
Ardina, the top ICTSI bet chasing a third victory on the tour, made three birdies but had two bogeys as she fired a second straight 71 that left her in third place at 142.
Cyna Rodriguez, winner of last month's Mission Inn Open, finished joint seventh with Trinidad and Tobago's Monica Sealy (77) at 150. Rodriguez closed out with a 74 after a 76.