A historic week for Canadian women\u2019s golf will continue for one more day at the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The whole of the Canadian trio \u2013 Vanessa Borovilos, Lauren Kim and 16-year-old Aphrodite Deng \u2013 have made the cut and will compete at Augusta National Golf Club itself on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first two rounds of the event are contested at Champions Retreat Golf Club and the top 30 and ties move on to Augusta National for the finale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kim and Borovilos sit at 5 under and are tied for sixth, while Deng shot a 3-under 69 Thursday and sits tied for 19th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kim shot a 1-under 71 while Borovilos shot a 1-over 73.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The world\u2019s top-ranked junior, Asterisk Talley, leads by one at 11 under through two days. She has gone 36 consecutive holes without a bogey \u2013 a championship record \u2013 and is the first player in the history of the championship to record four straight rounds in the 60s (dating back to last year where she finished runner-up).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Deng is one of the youngest competitors in the field this week and said, after an even-par 72 to open, the biggest difference for her second round was that she was able to limit her mistakes. She was on a heater \u2013 three straight birdies on Nos. 11-13 \u2013 but gave back two with bogeys on two of her final four holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, at 16, she\u2019s thrilled to have the opportunity to tee it up at Augusta National in her debut at the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels great; I\u2019m really excited,\u201d Deng said. \u201cI came in really excited just to see how my game would stack up with these really great players, and throughout the week it’s just been really fun.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Borovilos, meanwhile, was just one back after the opening 18 holes but admitted Thursday was a \u201cbit more of a battle,\u201d including topping her tee shot on No. 15 \u2013 \u201ca shocker,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like yesterday came very easy, but today, had a couple rough shots,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I feel like I brought myself back to the ground on the back nine and was able to make some good five-footers for par. But overall, today, I feel like I did well with what I had. So, it was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Borovilos, who won an individual title at Texas A&M earlier this year, said the key for her into the finale at Augusta National is to listen to her own advice more \u2013 and just try to have fun with things.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said she\u2019s talked to her friends and family about trying to enjoy her experience this week. You don\u2019t want to give up on an opportunity like this, she said, because it\u2019s not guaranteed you\u2019ll get another one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think just enjoying the experience and looking around more, because we get so caught up in trying to do everything we need for the tournament and we don’t just look around and see all the fans and like where we are in Augusta,\u201d Borovilos said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The trio of Canadians already made history by teeing it up together \u2013 the first time Canada has had more than one participant in this championship \u2013 and now that they\u2019ve made it to the final round together, they are all aiming to record the best finish by a Canadian at Augusta. The highest such result is a tie for 14th which has happened twice, by Kim and Monet Chun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kim tees off in the final round on April 4 at 10:40 a.m. ET with American Avery Weed, Deng goes at 9 a.m. alongside Thailand\u2019s Achiraya Sriwong, while Borovilos plays with the No.1-ranked amateur in the world, American Kiara Romero, at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic week for Canadian women\u2019s golf will continue for one more day at the Augusta National Women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-578613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}