Charley Hull kept alive British hopes for a gold medal sweep in golf with a 66 that left her two shots behind Park.
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Inbee Park opened up a two-shot lead at the women’s Olympic Golf, as world No 1 Lydia Ko fired a hole-in-one to charge up the leaderboard.
Lewis has said last month that it was “really disappointing” that top male Golfers opted out of the games.
First, though, the new Mrs. Chadwell faces the challenge of overhauling Park, who continued her impressive recovery from a thumb injury by matching her opening 66 for a 36-hole total of 132.
The world number five would start to waver, though, dropping five shots on the last 12 holes while managing a further three birdies to scrape in under par.
The highlight of the round had to be Ko’s hole-in-one on the eighth, as she joined China’s Xi Yu Lin in acing the 140-yard par 3. “That’s what the situation and conditions were like out there”.
American Gerina Piller is tied with Ko at 9 under after shooting a 3-under 68 in Round 3. All that mattered was a chance to win gold in what she considers the biggest week of her year next to her marriage August 6 to Houston women’s golf coach Gerrod Caldwell.
“Sometimes when I get made I get more focussed”.
“But I’ve never been able to represent my country in the Olympic games”, added the former resident of Las Vegas and graduate of Bishop Gorman High School.
They include Chun In-Gee, who was four strokes back of Park.
“There would have to be something seriously wrong for me to not come and play in the Olympics”.
“They just don’t make any mistakes. and that’s why they are tough to beat”, she says. She shot a 72 and fell five shots out of the lead. They now sit 5 under, 4 under and 4 under, respectively, through 54 holes.
Piller went out in 31 to move into a share of the lead with Park during the final stretch at 10-under par, but made bogey at the last to finish the day at nine-under par.
Carlson, from Hamilton, Michigan, beat IL junior Dylan Meyer of Evansville, Indiana, 3 and 1, taking the lead with a birdie chip on the par-4 14th that he celebrated with a running, double fight pump. Henderson was still in the mix when she four-putted for double bogey on the 16th hole, taking three of those putts from 3 feet. She wound up with a 75 and was seven back. “I didn’t expect much of a result, but what I want to do is I want to show all the people how hard I’ve worked”.
Stacy Lewis went backward, too.
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Amy Yang had a six-under 65, including seven birdies and a bogey, and is tied for 17th, while Kim Sei-young, who finished the first round tied with Park, tumbled with a two-over par performance and sat tied for 22nd.
