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The weekend's best winning celebration came from the LPGA Tour, not the Super Bowl

February 08, 2016

Between what happened at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and a certain football game, there's a good chance you missed what took place on the LPGA Tour over the weekend. And in that case, with all respect to Hideki Matsuyama and the new Super Bowl champs, you missed the best celebration of 2016 so far.

Ha Na Jang, who made the LPGA's first-ever hole-in-one on a par 4 last week and kissed the ground last week, saved an even better reaction for her first win. Jang capped a two-shot victory at the Coates Golf Championship with a birdie on the 18th hole and then did this:

Apparently, Jang saw the Samurai-style move on YouTube a few weeks ago, and decided to give the "ceremony lasso" a try. We're glad she did.