LONDON – Jenny Shin carded a 1-under-par 71 on July 25 to maintain her five-stroke lead heading into the final round of the Women\u2019s Scottish Open in North Ayrshire.<\/p>\n
Shin recorded two birdies and a bogey at Dundonald Links on July 25 to ascend to 12-under 204 for the tournament.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old South Korean is bidding for her first LPGA Tour win since capturing the now-defunct Volunteers of America Texas Shootout 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
The last LPGA Tour player to go 10 or more years between official victories was Vicki Fergon, who went 12 years and three months between wins at the 1984 S&H Golf Classic and the 1996 Michelob Light Heartland Classic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never been in this position (a five-shot lead), so I don\u2019t know how to feel (on Sunday),\u201d Shin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to go and practice for a little bit and get a good feel for tomorrow so I\u2019m not such a mess in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shin made a birdie on the sixth hole and answered a bogey on the 10th hole by making another birdie on No. 11.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a very tough round. I was quite nervous for the first five holes, so I\u2019m really glad that I was able to finish the day in red numbers,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a pretty boring and nerve-wracking day at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a bit of a hiccup on No. 10. I changed my setup this week because of all the wind and out of habit, I lined up the putt and went back to my old setup. I shut the face. I knew what I was doing, so I was able to get back pretty easily.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shin holds a five-stroke lead over Thailand\u2019s Pajaree Anannarukarn, who had three birdies during her bogey-free round of 69.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say almost everything went well,\u201d Anannarukarn said. \u201cI was driving the ball well and hitting it good out there. The putter was very hot today, so that was the key. It was a challenging day, and also, at the same time, I had good fun battling with the wind. It was a great day out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Erika Hara (71 on July 25) and Germany\u2019s Esther Henseleit (73) sit at five under for the tournament.<\/p>\n
Despite her troubles, Henseleit said she wasn\u2019t going to press as she attempts to record her first win since joining the LPGA Tour in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to press on this golf course, to be honest. Just no matter like if you want to take birdie or par, you kind of have to hit the same shots because they are the only possible shots,\u201d Henseleit said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I don\u2019t think my game plan really changed, and yeah, I\u2019m just trying to do my thing out there and hopefully tomorrow I can hit a few close and make some putts.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON – Jenny Shin carded a 1-under-par 71 on July 25 to maintain her five-stroke lead heading into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-559398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}