LPGA Tour: Jessica Korda enters controversy with 60, but Danielle Kang stays three ahead | Golf News

Jessica Korda covers the back nine in 28 amazing hits, with seven birdies, an eagle and a par at par-five! But despite Korda firing 60, she still follows Danielle Kang with three blows in Florida.

Jessica Korda fired a 60-something shot on day three

Jessica Korda fired a sensational 60 to keep in touch with director Danielle Kang after the third round of the Diamond Resorts Tournament in Florida.

Kang threatened to run away with the competition as she traveled to turn in four under, but Korda only needed 28 hits to cover all nine goals to get inside three. of the director, and her 63 high-rankings raised her to 19 under par after 54 holes.

Korda’s younger sister Nelly slipped six from distance despite accumulating 67, while England duo Georgia Hall and Mel Reid closed at six under and will play for top-10 finishes. and zeros as well as their award reviews Sunday afternoon.

Kang led by two shots overnight and fished the first, but Nelly Korda got over it when she started in her third round with three consecutive birdies to cut the deficit to one blow.

But Kang then added three of the next four holes and matched Korda’s birdies at 10 and 11 just as Korda’s older sister was embroiled in controversy.

Jessica Korda opened with a pair of birdies but then turned off seven pars just before hitting her belts after the turn, accumulating seven birdies and an eagle on the 17th, her only par a disappointment as her he was at the 13th par-five.

Danielle Kang takes three blows into the final round

Her ninth birdie of the day at the end came in a staggering 28th lead and moved into second place overall, although the gap widened to three hits when Kang bird on the 15th and the last holes on each side of a par-clutch at 17 after duffed. chip.

“That was the second time I put it up today,” said Kang, who has completed 54 holes with no biases on her scoring cards. “I got a little greedy trying to hit a high bullet on a lie down, and that’s not the right thing to do.

“I hit the big ball in front of the small ball. What are you going to do? But I was just pushing it. I wanted to give myself the best par chance, and that par was really good. to do. “

Korda covered the back nine in 28

Jessica Korda, who had finished about an hour earlier, was delighted with her best tour of the LPGA tour, despite a hint of harassment about her par at the 13th .

“It was a lot of fun, but I can’t believe par five was the only par I had on the back nine,” she said. “But it was a terrible day. I started really strong and then ran out a bit. I was trying to get to harder pins and just play it really safe.

“Then behind nine I don’t know what happened. I turned it up. I looked a lot good and we were just really calm all day.

“Honestly, I have to look back on it. It was awful. I hit good shots and I didn’t have too many long putts. So a ball strike definitely helped.”

Korda Jnr enters the final six hits off the distance after a messy finish with bogeys at two of the last four holes, and In Gee Chun jumps into fourth place with three late birdies to be matching 67 Korda.

Hall and Reid pitched nine birdies between them as they both returned 67s to close on a six-under par.