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Alena Sharp has been steadily improving her game over the last 2 years, gone from being just one of the pack, to one who is in contention, and with that she has gained what is most important, confidence, the feeling that she belongs and can play with the best.
This week in Cambridge at the Whistle Bear GC, not far from her home in Hamilton, she leads this Manulife sponsored LPGA Classic along with American star, Lexi Thompson and South Korean Hoo Joo Kim as play begins this hot humid weekend in southern Ontario.
66,66 for Alena, 67 65 for Lexi, 65 67 for Kim, all at -12, leading by just a shot over a packed international leaderboard. There are 10 different flags flying in the top 10 players alone !
"This week has been different,” Sharp said. “I just walked up to the golf course yesterday and today just feeling like it was going to be a good day.Just had these good vibes coming out.”
She overcame a double bogey on the 3rd when she called a penalty on herself, made a birdie at the fourth then an eagle on the par 9th, and kept the momentum going with 3 straight birdies on the back nine.
There are 10 Canadians in the field and after Alena, the next two in contenetion are
Brittany Marchand and Brooke Henderson, who has only had two top 10's this year, still crushing the ball off the tee, but struggling with her putting.
Marchand is from Orangeville and plays on the Symetra Tour, shot a 70 to get to -7 for her very first LPGA Tour cut.
Brooke is six shots back after a 67 following a frustrating 71on Thursday when she left the course without her normal post round presser, she was so deflated with her performance on the greens.
She summed it all up like this. I played really well on Thursday, I hit a lot great shots, I just didn’t make any putts and my energy kind of dropped a little bit. Today I was able to get a few tap-in birdies that were only at three or four feet and that gave me a lot of confidence"
Seven of the ten Canucks have missed the cut, follow all the scores on my scoring link above.
Bryan Angus
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