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Friday, August 9, 2024

"edited version"....Henderson moves up at Paris 2024 Olympics..Results/ Saturday TEE TIMES

 Paris 2024 Olympics : Women's Golf Competition IGFGolf.org

With round 3 now complete, played under overcast skies 25*c and a breeze at 17kph Brooke Henderson has moved up the leaderboard 17 places T13 -4

After opening 74, 73 +3 (remember Le Golf National plays at 71 par for the men, 72 par for the women) she has had her best nine at -3, 33 moving up 15 spots at the turn T15.

edit *** She went on to birdie the two par 5's at 14 and 18 for 34 and -5 67 the second lowest round of the day, 67 leaving her T13 -2 heading into the final round. 

edit** Rd 3 top 10 standings 

T1 -9 Lydia Ko, Morgane Metraux

T3 -7 Rose Zhang, Miyu Yamashita

5th -6    Atthaya Thitikul

6th  -5   Mariajo Uribe

T7th -4  Nelly Korda, Ruoning Yin, Celine Boutier, Xiyu Lin

Earlier ...

Early in this round a familiar name from New Zealand, Lydia Ko who has won silver and bronze in the last 2 Olympics is currently 3rd, 72 67 -5.

edit *** Today she went out in 34 (3 birdies 1 bogey) and came back in 34 for -4 68 and T1 at -9 

A Chinese woman called Ruoning Yin is second 72 65 -7 and a Swiss Miss, Morgane Metraux was the story in round 2, posting -6 66 to go with an opening -2 70 for -8 total.

edit *** Yin slipped to +3 75 today T7 -4.... Metraux shot -1 71 to T1 with Ko at -9.

First round leader Celine Boutier slipped from her headline grabbing -7 65, to a +4 76 but at -3 she  is currently still T6.

edit *** Today she fired a -1 71 now T7 at -4

edit *** American rookie Rose Zhang had a remarkable closing 5 holes, eagle 3 at 14th, double bogey 6 in the water at 15th, par, par then a 219 yard approach to 2 feet at the par 5 18th for another eagle. She has shot herself right into contention with 67 T3 -7 with Japanese Miyu Yamashita T3 71 70 68 -7

edit **** Nelly Korda T7 72 70 70 -4

edit  **** Canada's Alena Sharp is out of contention, 71 76 and +5 today 77 to T44 +8

Scoring in round 3 is complete now . in Toronto, remember Paris is 6 hours ahead of EST. 

For all results and Saturday TEE TIMES  click on this link IGFGolf.org

Bryan Angus


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