SHANSHAN FENG LEADS BY FIVE IN DUBAI
GEORGIA HALL ACE WINS A MERCEDES
BUT SHE NEEDS DRIVING LESSONS!
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR NEWS RELEASE
In a near repeat of her dominant performance two years
ago, Shanshan Feng pushed her lead to five strokes after the third round
of the Omega Dubai
Ladies Masters today.
On
199, 17-under-par, the world number five from China was one stroke shy
of her 2012 54-hole tournament record score in the season-ending event
on the Ladies European
Tour.
Feng
fired a third round 66 to sit five clear of Melissa Reid from England
(65) with Carlota Ciganda, Anna Nordqvist and Charley Hull two shots
back in a tie for third.
When
Feng posted a record winning total of 21-under par in 2012, she fell
one stroke short in matching Sorenstam's largest winning margin of six
shots she recorded
in the inaugural edition in 2006.
On
this year’s plans, she said: “My goal was actually to get to 20‑under,
so now I'm 17. So I think, yeah, still have a chance to get to 20,”
said Feng, who was 26-under
when she won the Reignwood Classic in 2013.
“If I make it top three,
I'm happy. But of course, you know, if I have a chance to win, I'm
going to give all my best.”
Feng
birdied the first and eagled the third hole, but dropped her only shot
on the fourth. She was 14-under and four ahead of Hull when the
18-year-old from England
took a triple bogey seven after going out of bounds on the 12th hole but Hull immediately recovered with three birdies in her last six holes.
Hull
said: “I'm actually really happy to be honest. I got off to a fast
start and I was 3‑under through ten holes, and just lost a little bit of
concentration for two
holes. I fought back after making a triple and a bogey with three
birdies after that, so I'm really proud of myself for doing that. Just
bad course management.
"My caddie told me to chip out and I was like,
no, I'm going for it. But I'm happy I went for
it because I've learned from my mistakes. I have to make my own
mistakes to learn from them. So I'm happy ‑‑ I'm not happy for making
it, but I've definitely learnt and I'm happy I holed like a 50‑foot
putt.”
Another
English star, Reid, who won the last of her four Ladies European Tour
victories at the 2012 Prague Masters, said she had played some of her
best ever golf.
“It's
been a long time coming. I worked actually a week with my coach, Kevin
Craggs, a week before this week at Saadiyat, and I think we just found
kind of the missing
ingredient. So it was nice to put it into play. I played really well
yesterday.
"I think I missed three greens yesterday and then today I
think I missed one. So I'm hitting it well. I'm just trying to keep it
simple and get the noise out of my head. It's
working,” she said.
“It's
been a really tough couple years. It's been a lot harder than I
expected and I probably didn't give myself enough credit for what's
happened and stuff.
" Things
change, and I actually feel that my personal life is stable, which is
quite nice, not being a rebel anymore. The last two or three months,
everything has quieted down and everything's good and I'm happy, and I
think it's now showing through in my golf.”
Earlier in the third round, England’s Georgia Hall produced the perfect shot when she aced the 167-yard par-3 15th
hole using a 4-iron. The 18-year-old from
Bournemouth in Dorset won a gleaming Mercedes Benz C 200 worth around
€60,000 and will now have to buy herself some driving lessons as she
can’t yet drive!
It was the second hole in one of the week, after Stacey
Keating aced the fourth for no prize in the
first round.
Elsewhere,
young Indian amateur Aditi Ashok continued to make her presence felt in
a world-class field, carding level-par 73 in third round to stay at one
over, four shots behind Lee So-young,
the only other amateur in the field.
SCOTSWATCH: Having had to birdie the last hole to beat the second-round cut by one shot, Sally Watson surged up the leaderboad with a four-under-par 68, one of the lowest scores of the third day. She is now the leading Scot on two-under 214 and joint 29th.
Watson birdied the second, third, short 11th, 16th and 17th in haves of 33-35. Her only bogey came at the 15th.
In contrast, Kylie Walker had quadruple bogey 9 at the par-5 18th to shoot a 74 for T34 on 217.
She had halves of 32-42, birdieing the second, third, ninth, 10th and 17th. She bogeyed the 12th, 13th and 14th before he calamitous finish.
Pamela Pretswell and Kelsey MacDonald are joint 59th on 219.
Pamela has had rounds of 72, 71 and 76, her third round including birdies at the third, 11th and 15th but also a double bogey at the short fourth in halves of 39-37.
Kelsey has scored 71-72-76. She too had three third-round birdies, at the second, ninth and 16th but also a double bogey at the long 11th and five bogeys.
SCOTSWATCH: Having had to birdie the last hole to beat the second-round cut by one shot, Sally Watson surged up the leaderboad with a four-under-par 68, one of the lowest scores of the third day. She is now the leading Scot on two-under 214 and joint 29th.
Watson birdied the second, third, short 11th, 16th and 17th in haves of 33-35. Her only bogey came at the 15th.
In contrast, Kylie Walker had quadruple bogey 9 at the par-5 18th to shoot a 74 for T34 on 217.
She had halves of 32-42, birdieing the second, third, ninth, 10th and 17th. She bogeyed the 12th, 13th and 14th before he calamitous finish.
Pamela Pretswell and Kelsey MacDonald are joint 59th on 219.
Pamela has had rounds of 72, 71 and 76, her third round including birdies at the third, 11th and 15th but also a double bogey at the short fourth in halves of 39-37.
Kelsey has scored 71-72-76. She too had three third-round birdies, at the second, ninth and 16th but also a double bogey at the long 11th and five bogeys.
THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARDE
Par 216 (3x72)
199 Shanshan Feng (CHN) 66 67 66
204 Melissa Reid (ENG) 70 69 65
206 Carlota Ciganda (ESP) 69 71 66, Anna Nordqvist (SWE) 69 69 68, Charley Hull (ENG) 67 70 69
207 Nicole Broch Larsen (DEN) 71 70 66, Noora Tamminen (FIN) 72 66 69
208 Caroline Masson (GER) 68 71 69
209 Gwladys Nocera (FRA) 69 69 71
210 Malene Jorgensen (DEN) 74 69 67, Sarah Kemp (AUS) 71 68 71,
Ashleigh Simon (RSA) 70 71 69, Liz Young (ENG) 70 71 69, Becky
Brewerton (WAL) 67 73 70
211 Stacy Lee Bregman (RSA) 72 70 69, Thidapa Suwannapura (THA) 71 72
68, Klara Spilkova (CZE) 70 70 71, Felicity Johnson (ENG) 73 68 70,
Cheyenne Woods (USA)
70 69 72, Pornanong Phatlum (THA) 68 72 71
212 Minjee Lee (AUS) 74 68 70, Isabelle Boineau (FRA) 72 72 68, Caroline Hedwall (SWE) 72 71 69
213 Joanna Klatten (FRA) 70 72 71, Amy Boulden (WAL) 70 74 69, Katie
Burnett (USA) 71 69 73, Soyoung Lee (SKOR) 67 74 72, Whitney Hillier
(AUS) 71 69 73
214 Holly Clyburn (ENG) 72 69 73, Lee-Anne Pace (RSA) 67 73 74, Sally Watson (SCO) 76 70 68
215 Margherita Rigon (ITA) 72 71 72, Jade Schaeffer (FRA) 73 69 73,
Veronica Zorzi (ITA) 74 71 70, Rebecca Hudson (ENG) 71 70 74
216 Becky Morgan (WAL) 71 71 74, Sophie Walker (ENG) 71 71 74, Connie
Chen (RSA) 74 70 72, Pernilla Lindberg (SWE) 71 75 70, Nikki Campbell
(AUS) 68 76 72, Valentine
Derrey (FRA) 70 72 74, Sophie Giquel-bettan (FRA) 72 74 70
217 Marion Ricordeau (FRA) 71 75 71, Cathryn Bristow (NZL) 70 73 74,
Aditi Ashok (IND) 72 73 72, Rebecca Codd (IRL) 71 74 72, Linda
Wessberg (SWE) 74 72 71,
Titiya Plucksataporn (THA) 71 70 76, Kylie Walker (SCO) 71 72 74
218 Stacey Keating (AUS) 70 76 72, Elisabeth Esterl (GER) 74 66 78,
Bree Arthur (AUS) 72 74 72, Sophie Sandolo (ITA) 75 71 72, Mireia Prat
(ESP) 69 75 74, Caroline
Martens (NOR) 71 72 75, Holly Aitchison (ENG) 70 72 76, Georgia Hall
(ENG) 75 69 74, Mallory Fraiche (USA) 74 71 73
219 Ann-Kathrin Lindner (GER) 73 71 75, Pamela Pretswell (SCO) 72 71
76, Maha Haddioui (MAR) 71 75 73, Eleanor Givens (ENG) 72 72 75,
Kelsey MacDonald (SCO)
71 72 76, Carin Koch (SWE) 66 77 76
220 Minea Blomqvist (FIN) 74 72 74
221 Stefania Croce (ITA) 71 75 75
Bethan Cutler
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Ladies European Tour
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