Why Brandel Chamblee was fuming (!) with finish to Chevron Championship

Golf Channel analyst and former PGA Tour winner Brandel Chamblee blasted tournament organisers of the Chevron Championship after the first women's major of the year ended in controversy. 

Japan's Mao Saigo came through a five-way playoff on Sunday at The Club at Carlton Woods in Texas to secure his maiden major win and first victory in the United States. 

Saigo - who took home $1.2m in prize money - managed to hole a birdie putt at the 72nd to join four other players in a sudden-death playoff. 

Two-time major winner Ariya Jutanugarn led for most of the day and needed a par at the final hole but duffed her chip in front of the grandstand after she went for the green with her second stroke. 

Saigo sank a birdie putt from five feet to win the playoff whilst Golf Twitter debated what happened to Jutanugarn. 

Chamblee took issue with the placement of the grandstand. 

He explained on X: "Hate to see a major end the way Chevron did today

"Why is there a grand stand so close to the back edge of a closing hole par 5 that players can hit in two?

"It allows players to bounce into the grandstands but also forces everyone all week to walk in the same area, no doubt chewing up the spot where players have to chip from.

"Ariya Jutanugarn's ball should have been off the back of the green some ten yards leaving a basic chip, but instead was in a horrid lie from which she whiffed her chip and then lost in a playoff."

Jutanugarn did not speak about the whiff in her post-round news conference. 

She said her performance in the major exceeded her expectations. 

"The game I have been playing for the past two weeks it's [the result] built my confidence for the rest of the season for sure," she said. 

"[I] just have to keep working on what's good and probably have to do some short game, improve my short game a little bit. 

"Overall, it's great, and I'm very happy with the process that I have been going through."