It was anything but that for an Irish player whose smile and attitude have brightened Pebble Beach as much as the sunshine that finally arrived. “I couldn’t keep crying about it,” Donegan said. Her caddie told her to consider a front nine of seven pars and two bogeys - that was the same score as three birdies and a quintuple bogey - and that helped calm her down.
“And followed it up with the exact same thing.” “Probably one of the worst shots I’ve hit all year,” Donegan said. It added to a 9, effectively ending her chances. She headed back to the drop zone and did it again. She was playing her best golf of the week and making an early run with three birdies through seven holes and a perfect drive on the eighth, short of the 60-foot cliff with a harsh left-to-right wind.Īnd then she sailed a hybrid into the hazard area well right and below the green. Irish amateur Aine Donegan had the toughest time. She left one shot in a bunker on the par-5 sixth, and flew the green and a bunker with a flop shot that went bad on the eighth.īut she was even par the rest of the way for a 75. Leona Maguire, who had a 40 on the scorable front nine Friday, struggled again with a pair of double bogeys and went out in 39. She settled for a 72 and was among those eight shots behind. She didn’t make a birdie the rest of the way. Rose Zhang, the crowd favorite at Pebble Beach from her sterling amateur career at Stanford and winning her first LPGA event as a pro, had a chance to get to 3 under for the round until missing a 4-foot birdie putt on the seventh hole. So many others did well just to hold their ground, and left themselves far behind. Turning back into the homeward holes into the wind, she holed a 15-foot putt for birdie on the 13th and drew her loudest cheer when her 40-foot chip from behind the 16th green broke hard to the right and dropped for birdie.Ĭorpuz chipped in for birdie on the par-3 fifth, hit a beauty into the 10th for another birdie and kept in front with a wedge that checked up just short of a back pin on the par-5 14th. Hataoka, six shots behind at the start of the round, began her move with a 25-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole. I think there was a little bit of nerves involved today.” “Disappointed in some of my shots today, but overall, I’m still in contention,” Tardy said. Jiyai Shin (70) and Hae Ran Ryu (73) were five behind.
Tardy shot 75 and was three shots behind at 4-under 212, along with Hyo Joo Kim (73). She won a major on the Japan LPGA as a 17-year-old amateur, and now tries to become the third player to win an LPGA major.īailey Tardy, the LPGA rookie who had a two-shot lead at the start of the way, began to fall back as she turned into the wind and then lost her way on the 15th hole when she hit a clunky chip that ran through the green, chipped too strong coming back and made double bogey. “Just really, really grateful to be here, and yeah, hope that tomorrow goes well.” Open, like little tap-ins, but I don’t think I ever really thought I'd be in this position,” Corpuz said. This isn’t exactly what she imagined as a kid. Her bogey gave her a 71.Ĭorpuz has never won on the LPGA Tour, and now she’s in the final group of the Women’s Open with $2 million going to the winner. Corpuz stayed atop the leaderboard for most of the day until her second shot on the par-5 18th into the wind caught a plugged lie in the bunker, forcing her to chop out to the fairway.
She will play in the final group with Corpuz, the Hawaii native who stayed at USC an extra year to get her MBA during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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