{"id":939185,"date":"2026-10-24T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939185\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:14:18","slug":"kim-best-of-aussie-lpga-hopes-as-davidson-wobbles-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939185\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim best of Aussie LPGA hopes as Davidson wobbles \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Karis Davidson has slipped right down the leaderboard at a rain-soaked Pine Beach Golf Links in South Korea after a horror third round.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson, who shared the lead at the BMW Ladies Championship at the end of the opening day and was fourth going into the weekend, shot a 74 on Saturday to be tied for 19th ahead of the final round on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After carding 66 and 68 to begin the LPGA tournament in Gwangju, the 28-year-old Aussie registered six bogies in her third round to be nine shots behind leader Haeran Ryu.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792840458_55_.jpeg\" alt=\"Golf\"\/>Karis Davidson has had an at-times tricky year, while still performing strongly on the LPGA Tour. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20260629138900047672\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Grace Kim is now the best-placed Australian and has risen to be tied for 11th after posting a third-round 66.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s effort included seven birdies and just one bogey and followed a second-round 67 and a 73 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cassie Porter shares 54th place with seven other players including fellow Australian Robyn Choi, while Minjee Lee is a shot back at even-par for the tournament and in a tie for 62nd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steady rain forced course officials to use roller squeegees to remove water from the greens. Most of the final groups took six hours to complete their rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Hye-Jin Choi had an eagle and seven birdies on her first 11 holes on Saturday to shoot a 6-under 66 and move into tie for second place.<\/p>\n<p>Second-round leader Ryu, who birdied her last three holes, still led the tournament by four strokes after a 4-under 68 and a three-round total of 17-under 199.<\/p>\n<p>Choi shot 28 on her front nine and was 9-under before she bogeyed the par-5 12th after hitting into a fairway bunker. She made a double-bogey seven on the 17th after missing an eight-foot par putt after hitting into a hazard off the green with her fairway wood.<\/p>\n<p>Minji Park shot 65 and was also tied for second with Choi and Yuri Yoshida (68).<\/p>\n<p>With AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Karis Davidson has slipped right down the leaderboard at a rain-soaked Pine Beach Golf Links in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[1724,64,63,755,405163,85,12632],"class_list":["post-939185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}