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Saso follows the Korean by 2 with 70
Dante Navarro (Philstar.com) – October 16, 2020 – 3:49 pm
MANILA, Philippines – Back on the beat, Yuka Saso is back on the hunt, resisting a shaky move to save a 70 and follow Korean Bae Seon Woo by two at the start of the 2020 Fujitsu Ladies at the Tokyu Seven Hundred Club in Chiba Prefecture, Japan on Friday.
The fil-Japanese, who wanted to break a five-tournament spell after back-to-back victories last August, actually prepared to clinch day one honors at the Y100 million championship after going three-under after 13 holes. But he missed with a bogey on the 14th and threw three putts at par 5 No. 16 for par.
She, however, closed with spectacular saves to save a butt 36 for those 70 and a portion of the seventh with eight others, including favorite player of the year and rival Sakura Koiwai and her flight partner Asuya Kashiwabara, in the tournament bid for 54 holes. an upper bag of Y18 million (P8.3 million).
The 19-year-old leader of the race for money also maintained her hold on veteran Momoko Ueda, who actually rebounded from a pair of birdie setbacks at Nos. 7 and 11 to rescue a 72.
Woo, 24, who lost to Mone Inami in a Stanley Cup playoff last week, threw three birdies up front before adding another over the final nine holes for a bogey-free 68 and a one-shot lead over him. former. champion Teresa Lu and four others.
Lu, who made two birdies off a bogey up front, fired three birdies out back to tie for the lead. But the veteran activist bogey on the final hole to slip into joint second position at 69 with Kana Nagai, Mamiko Higa, Inami and Akira Yamaji, who took her scorecard 36-33 with an ace on 17 of 171 yards.
The mighty Saso, who ranked no better than the eighth set since sweeping the headbands of NEC Karuizawa and Nitori Ladies to cede the Player of the Year lead to Koiwai, birdied at par 3 No. 4 and the next two par 5s. (Nos. 7 and 10) to enter the initial mix.
But after three pairs in a row, he cleared the 14th green on another booming drive and cut from the ankle-deep rough. He sucked again and canned a meter and a half for the ghost.
Looking to catch up, he hit the green 16 par 5 in two with a superb second shot that landed on the edge of the sloping green below the pin. He approached a meter, but misread the line to his dismay.
He then hit his tee shot into the left rough of par 3 17, but came within four feet to save par and then drove onto the adjacent fairway of No. 18, his view of the green blocked by a heavily forested hill.
After taking a blind approach shot, he eagerly ran back to the fairway, only to find his ball in the thick rough before the green bunkers. But she jumped less than three feet and made the putt.
In Florida, Dottie Ardina battled first two bogeys to the rear with birdies at numbers 15 and 18 and then parried the front for a par 73, five strokes behind Finnish Matilda Castren at the start of the Mission Inn Resort and Club. Championship at the Mission Inn and Resort Club course in Howey-in-the-Hills on Thursday.
Ardina proved to be fairly stable from the mound, hitting all but two fairways, but struggled with her iron game, missing six greens and finishing with 30 putts to share the 19th.
Castren fired a 68 with eagle spikes to open a one-shot lead over Scot Gemma Dryburgh in the $ 125,000 54-hole Symetra Tour event, while Fil-Am Clariss Guce limped with a 76.
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