Leona Maguire’s momentum stalled as she fired a one-over par spherical of 72 to fall again into the pack on the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship on Saturday.
The Cavan lady will begin her remaining spherical on 5 beneath par, which is 4 off the main duo of Jiyai Shin and Alison Lee.
Shin carded the low spherical of the week to shoot up the leaderboard, the South Korean stringing collectively 5 straight birdies on the entrance 9 and ending her spherical with birdies on the three of the final 4 holes. It moved her up from a tie for thirty third firstly of the day to affix Lee on 9-under.
“Truly the setting will not be for the lengthy golfer, so we want it very constant,” Shin mentioned. “However, you already know, this wind [made it] very laborious [for] calculating right this moment. That is why I talked quite a bit with my caddie in regards to the wind path and the numbers, too.”
Lee, in the meantime, carded 5 birdies and two bogeys on the entrance 9 alone, and completed with six birdies towards three bogeys. Lee is trying to find her first win on the PGA tour, having received twice on the Girls European Tour.
“I used to be in a reasonably adverse mindset coming into right this moment,” she acknowledged.
“I noticed the forecast and I noticed the wind. I noticed how a lot it’ll be blowing because the day went on. I undoubtedly had a very adverse mindset and I mentioned, ‘oh, my gosh, I will play horrible. It is so windy, not going to be enjoyable on the market’.”
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For Maguire, who began the day two off the lead in a tie for fourth after capturing 65 on Friday, it was a case of recovering after a irritating entrance 9 which noticed her drop pictures on the second and the sixth holes.
The 34-year outdated did take pleasure in a greater again 9, mixing birdies on 10, 15 and 16 with one other two bogeys on 13 and 18.
Extra reporting: Reuters
