Like Kim, Chun had just come out of the Olympics last week and was determined to take her second career win in the LPGA at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.
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Kiwi women’s golf star Lydia Ko was seven shots off the pace on a congested leaderboard with a round to play in the LPGA Tour’s Canadian Open. “But when I got here on Monday and Tuesday, it’s getting a lot better, and first round it’s fine”.
“I feel really happy with myself right now”, said Ariya, who squandered several excellent chances to win tournaments earlier in the year before managing to get across the finish line.
“I keep the eye on me”, said Jutanugarn.
That wasn’t the case all that long ago.
After a late meltdown cost Jutanugarn her first LPGA Tour victory in April in the major ANA Inspiration, she broke through in May with three straight victories. There were some concerns after Jutanugarn withdrew from last week’s Olympic Games with a knee injury, but she has been on her game thus far. “I know I had two bogeys in the last three holes, but I still shot 5 under, so I feel good”. I don’t care if I’m going to win the tournament or not.
“I had massive crowds today and it was so much fun to play in front of them”, Henderson said. She finished within the top 10 in eight tournaments this year, and out of the eight, she had the worst performance in the fourth round. People wanted to see the world No. 3 and a victor of a major this year at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
Both she and Sharp are tied for 14th, trailing leader Ariya Jutanugarn by a half-dozen strokes.
Kim, a two-time victor this year, closed with a 65.
The final round will likely be a two-woman race with Northern Ireland’s Stephanie Meadow and South Korean Kim Sei Young five strokes off the lead in a tie for third.
“My tee shots pretty good all week”, Jutanugarn said. Webb won the 1999 du Maurier Classic, the then-major championship that folded because of Canada’s restrictions on tobacco promotions, at Priddis Greens.
Ariya Jutanugarn is walking with a bit of a limp and sporting stripes of medical tape on her left knee.
Jutanugarn is now No. 2 in the women’s world golf rankings behind New Zealand’s Lydia Ko and just ahead of Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont.
“I don’t think it’s like so good, my game”, Jutanugarn said about the tree-lined course. “But it’s been a great week”.
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Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., and Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., tied for 14th at 11-under for the tournament.
