Starting the day two shots off the lead, Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn knew an impressive day of best ball was needed to come away with the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational title at Midland Country Club. Team M&M certainly delivered finishing at twenty-four-under overall after recording a 59 on Saturday to earn the victory.
Defending Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational champions Cydney Clanton and Jasmine Suwannapura (Team All-In), along with Pajaree Anannarukarn and Aditi Ashok (Spice Girls) sit in a tie for first at fifteen-under after the third round in Midland, Mich.
Sisters Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand raced up the leaderboard at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational after an eleven-under 59 in best-ball play on Thursday. The pair take a two-stroke lead over countrywoman Pajaree Anannarukarn and India's Aditi Ashok into the third round.
When her par putt dropped on No. 18 at Old American Golf Club, Jin Young Ko stretched, shut her eyes and looked to the heavens. Winning the Volunteers of America Classic, her eighth career LPGA Tour title struck an emotional chord.
It was a race to beat the dark on a marathon moving day. Jin Young Ko completed her second round on Saturday morning, then turned around for a 3:42 p.m. CT third-round grouping at Old American Golf Club in The Colony, Texas. Thirty-one holes later and the seven-time LPGA Tour winner is the Volunteers of America Classic 54-hole leader by one stroke at 14-under par overall.
Mother Nature stole the show Friday morning at Old American Golf Club in The Colony, Texas, dumping almost two inches of rain on the course and causing a six-hour weather delay. Once action commenced, it was a brilliant performance from recent Rolex First-Time winner Matilda Castren.
“Deep in the heart of Texas” has a special ring to many LPGA Tour players who hail from South Korea. Thanks to nearly a full year of playable golf conditions – and several non-stop flights from Dallas to Seoul – numerous Korean LPGA Tour Members make their U.S. base in the greater Dallas area.
Almost a quarter of a century ago, Nelly Korda's father Petr won the 1998 Australian Open in tennis. On Sunday in Atlanta, Nelly added a major title of her own, winning the KMPG Women's PGA Championship.
American Nelly Korda and Lizette Salas lead the field by five shots going into the final round at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in Atlanta. Barring an unlikely meltdown by both players it looks like one of them will be lifting the trophy on Sunday afternoon.
When Maria Fassi hole her birdie putt at the 18th, her ninth hole, she was in an upbeat mood on Friday, having got her round back to level par following a double bogey and bogey in her first four holes.
Nelly Korda made light work of the Atlanta Athletic Club Highland course on Friday to take a one-shot lead over fellow American Lizette Salas at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Korda opened with a bogey at her opening hole the 10th and then fired ten birdies, including birdies at her last six holes, to card a nine-under 63.
England's Charley Hull trails American Lizette Salas by a single shot after the opening round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in Atlanta. Hull, who started at the 10th tee, was one-under to the turn before coming alive on her back nine with four birdies and a lone bogey to card a four-under-par 68. "I can't actually remember much of my round today. I just felt quite focused," said Hull.
