You expect wild weather swings in Scotland at an Open. The LPGA has honestly experienced it all up to now.
Thursday the morning turned into pretty calm and things were given a bit rougher in the afternoon. All advised, 52 players broke par.
Friday turned wet and nasty. To come up with a assessment, the sector become 28-underneath at the lower back 9 Thursday. They have been 539-over on Friday. Overall the route played five pictures tougher. Only five gamers broke par. Suzann Pettersen's 69 (-three) changed into the low spherical of the day till Maria McBride managed to post a 66 (-6) literally in the darkish. If it hadn't been for the mild from the electrical scoreboard at the 18th, she would not were capable to finish.
And Saturday the wind dropped a piece and the sun even got here out for a while. Even with that, handiest 14 players are nonetheless under par.
This occasion remains huge open. The lead, entering the final round, is -eight; after the first round it turned into simplest -7. And the weather is supposed to turn a piece nasty once more nowadays.
Once you get past leaders Jin-Young Ko and Teresa Lu, whose names may not be familiar to you -- Lu has one LPGA win and this is Ko's first fundamental appearance -- the leaderboard is loaded with familiar names:
- -7, Suzann Pettersen
- -6, Mika Miyazato
- -5, Inbee Park, Minjee Lee, Lydia Ko
- -4, Mel Reid, So Yeon Ryu
ESPN2's live coverage begins at 10am ET today, and there will be a one-hour wrap-up show on ABC at 5pm ET in case you miss the live coverage.
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