WIND. Some golfers dread it whilst others see it as an ally. For players with the capacity to paintings their ball via the wind, a gusty day gives a completely unique opportunity -- a danger to make up floor at the rest of the sphere, possibly even separate themselves.
For Michelle Wie, the winds whipping across the Tiburon route in Florida did simply that. Although the field managed to shoot decrease rankings on Friday -- a full shot lower notwithstanding the harder winds -- Michelle controlled to comply with up Thursday's frustrating spherical of par with a five-underneath sixty seven. She rocketed up the leaderboard right into a tie for fourth within the event, giving herself a hazard to win the million dollar CME Globe. In truth, for a while she became in first vicinity in that race... Till a struggling Stacy Lewis controlled to make a birdie on the seventeenth hole to regain the top spot. (Stacy is T15, at -1.)
Currently, Carlota Ciganda and Julieta Granada are tied for the lead within the match at -7. Stacy Lewis is first in the race for the $1mil, the POY award, and the Vare Trophy for scoring. Inbee Park is suffering alongside more than one photographs behind her.
Given how properly Michelle plays in the wind, she ought to thoroughly be main through the cease of play today.
Meanwhile, down at the BetEasy Masters at the Australasian Tour, Adam Scott's bid for a 3rd gold jacket hit a snag in the course of the 0.33 spherical. Although Scott says he felt that he hit the ball better in the course of Saturday's round, his rating did not display it. Starting the day 6 photographs at the back of the leaders he went out in 2-over and came back in three-under, improving his general score with the aid of simplest 1 stroke to -4 (T9) -- not sufficient to seize the leaders (Michael Wright sits at -9, however Wright nevertheless has 4 holes to play on the time of this writing).
Granted, Adam has simplest 8 gamers in advance of him which makes his challenge relatively less complicated. Let's face it -- if the winds preserve and Adam performs a extremely good final round, a win nonetheless might be doable. But three of these in advance of him have published rounds within the mid-60s and, even though Wright is struggling a piece in the 1/3 spherical, he seems pretty stable. And they expect more wind for the final round.
I don't like Adam's chances all that nicely. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say that James Nitties sits at -6 after a five-beneath round, and I have a feeling he just can be due.
It's excellent how lots the wind can exchange the complexion of an event... And in this situation, it just is probably blowing some favorites right out of rivalry.
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