She had eagle chances on consecutive holes, both times to get within one of the lead. But she three-putted for par from 45 feet on the 15th, and her eagle pitch from 20 yards lipped out on the 16th.
``I never lost the hope,'' she said. ``I though something good was going to happen, that miracles exist. But it wasn't my time.''
Still, it was her seventh consecutive top 10 in a major.
Equally disappointed was Sorenstam, playing the LPGA Championship for the final time and applauding the fans walking up the 18th.
``I left a lot of shots out there,'' Sorenstam said. ``I wish I could have converted one or two; it would have been enough. But I didn't.
Both were part of the carnage on the 13th in which the top six on the leaderboard were a combined to play the toughest hole at Bulle Rock in 7-over par.
Sorenstam was the only player in the fairway, but she missed the green to the right, her chip ran over the cup and her 4-foot par putt never hit the hole. That ended a streak of 42 consecutive holes at Bulle Rock without a bogey.
Worse yet, she never made another birdie the rest of the way.
