LPGA Tour CP Women's Open leaderboard http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/cp-womens-open/leaderboard
It's been windy at the Ottawa Hunt Club, so the scoring hasn't been too low, with the cut falling at +2 and the leader, South Korean, In Gee Chun at -8 heading into this weekend.
However that doesn't explain the poor performance of so many of our Canadian women who have disappointed the red and white clad fans who have turned out in droves to cheer them on. Undoubtedly they all are feeling the pressure of playing well at home.
Out of the 14 who started only Brooke Henderson and Brittany Marchand were able to make the cut and Brooke had to birdie the last to do it. Marchand (73 67)who has been playing well on the Symetra Tour of late is the low Canadian, T23rd at -2. Brooke (74 69) is at +1 T59 and nine shots behind.
Both talked about the pressure of playing at home, first Brittany. "On the Symetra Tour we don’t often have anybody. Maybe your host family, maybe your mom comes".
Then Brooke . "I feel like I’ve handled it pretty well so far. I think now that the cut is kind of over with, I can focus on my game and try to shoot maybe 4- or 5-under these next two and see if I can be in the top 10 or just climb that leaderboard a little bit more.”
Her ball striking continues to be superb, but Brooke's achilles heel is her putter, in particular making those 10 to 15 footers that turn a 71 into a 67, and she did talk about that after her first round.
Now, what about the other 12 women.
Anne-Catherine Tanguay (76 73), Augusta James (73 76), and amateurs Maddie Szeryk (79 70) and Jaclyn Lee (75 74) finished at +7.
Maude-Aimee Leblanc (73 77) +8, Alena Sharp (78 73) +9 Grace St-Germain (80 72 +10, Jennifer Ha (74 80) +12.
Hannah Hellyer (78 78) +14, Samantha Richdale (77 80) +15, amateur Naomi Ko (83 75)+16 over and finally, Lorie Kane (80 81) +19
Certainly each has their own story, most playing in front of very sparse galleries on satellite tours and I wouldn't for example expect the amateurs to compete over 4 rounds with the pro's, and Lorie is clearly in the twilight of her fabulous career, but many of the others have played in this event enough times to know what to expect, and I'm sure they are very disappointed to miss this weekend.
As for the tournament leaders, Brittany Lincicome (68 68), Mo Martin (69 67), Marina Alex (66,70) are all -6 T2.
The leader as I mentioned, by two shots is In Gee Chun (67 67) -8.
Watch out for two more Solheim Cup stars at -5, Cristie Kerr (70 67) and Stacy Lewis (69 68), they are both in great form coming off last week's win over Team Europe.
Bryan Angus
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