SYLVANIA, Ohio — Linn Grant put herself in place to turn into simply the second LPGA Tour participant to interrupt 60, however she performed the ultimate 5 holes in even par for a 9-under 62 and has a six stroke lead getting into the ultimate spherical of the Dana Open.
Grant was 9 below on her first 13 holes on an extended, wet Saturday at Highland Meadows, giving hope that she may be a part of fellow Swede Annika Sorenstam as the one LPGA Tour gamers to shoot 59.
Sorenstam completed the feat within the 2001 Commonplace Register Ping at par-72 Moon Valley in Phoenix.
Two strokes again getting into the spherical, Grant had an 18-under 195 whole to take a six-stroke lead over U.S. Girls’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz (68), Stephanie Kyriacou (65), Maria Fassi (67), Matilda Castren (67) and Emily Pedersen (67).
In search of her first LPGA Tour victory, the 24-year-old Grant gained the Jabra Women Open in Could in France for her fifth Women European Tour title in two seasons.
Grant opened with a par Saturday and birdied the subsequent 4. After a rain delay of three hours, 48 minutes, she resumed play on No. 8 and added a birdie on No. 9 for a front-nine 29.
Grant holed out a full shot from the green for eagle on the par-4 eleventh and birdied Nos. 12 and 13.
Needing to play the ultimate 5 in 3 below for a 59, the previous Arizona State participant parred the subsequent two, bogeyed the par-4 sixteenth, birdied the par-5 seventeenth and parred the par-5 18th.
Corpuz gained the U.S. Girls’s Open per week in the past at Pebble Seaside for her first tour title.
Second-round chief Annie Park had a 71 to drop right into a tie for seventh at 11 below with Minjee Lee (67).
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