LPGA TOURNAMENT REDUCED TO 54 HOLES AFTER FRIDAY WASH-OUT

KORDA AND PACE SHARE LEAD IN 

CHINA WITH ONE ROUND TO GO

FROM THE LPGA WEBSITE
Jessica Korda and Lee-Anne Pace are tied for the lead after 36 holes of play and will take the lead into the third and final round on Sunday at the Blue Bay LPGA tournament in China. 
After the second round was suspended for the day on Friday for unplayable conditions, players had to wait another three hours on Saturday morning to get back underway.
More heavy rains hit the Jian Lake Blue Bay Golf Course in the morning and tee times were moved from 9:00 a.m. with an official start at 12:02 p.m. local time. Tour officials reduced the event from 72 holes to 54 holes on Friday and the third and final round will be played on Sunday.
Chella Choi (68-66) sits in solo second with 18 holes to play and trails the leaders by just one shot. Americans Michelle Wie (67-68) and Brittany Lang (67-68) are tied with China’s own Shanshan Feng (67-68) for fourth place and will start the final round two shots back.
Korda, who was the first-round leader, had a rough start with a double bogey on the par 4 1st hole but did not drop a shot the rest of the day.
“I got a little frazzled there as I was walking to the first tee box and then obviously didn’t hit a good shot, and I just I tried to forget about it, tried to bring back, you know, it’s okay and just think about what’s ahead and not what just happened,” said Korda.
It was her play on the back nine that got her back in the picture on the leaderboard. She birdied No. 14 to get to 9-under par, within one shot of Pace who had the outright lead.
Pace, along with Chella Choi and Austin Ernst, shot the low round of the day with a 6-under 66 that included seven birdies and one bogey. She birdied the par 4 12th with a chip in from the fringe to get to 9-under par and to gain a share of the lead for the first time all day.
“I played pretty decent,” said Pace. “I made quite a few putts already by that stage and then the putter just started rolling nicely towards the end.”
Pace picked up her two final birdies on Nos. 14 and 15 to get to 11-under par and the outright lead. But she was caught by Korda who birdied three consecutive holes from Nos. 14-16. A 17ft  putt to save par on the 18th hole kept her at 11-under par.
Korda has three career wins, two of them this season. Stacy Lewis and Inbee Park are the only three-time winners in 2014. 
Pace is playing for her first LPGA Tour career win but is fresh off her ninth-career victory on the Ladies European Tour in her home country of South Africa. Pace won the Cell C South African Women’s Open in dramatic fashion in a two-hole, sudden-death play-off against Holly Clyburn.
Yorkshire's Jodi Ewart Shadoff is in joint 12th place on 139 after rounds of 67 and 72.
Laura Davies is well back on 148 after scores of 72 and 76. She is joint 48th.
Catriona Matthew is not playing in this event.
 
SECOND-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2x72) 
Players from USA unless stated
133 Lee-Anne Pace (S Africa) 67 66, Jessica Korda 66 67
134 Chella Choi 68 66
135 Shanshan Feng (China) 67 68, Brittany Lang 67 68, Michelle Wie 67 68
 
SELECTED SCORES
139 Jodi Ewart Shadoff (England) 67 72 (T12)
148 Laura Davies (England) 72 76 (T67)
 
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