Coming down the stretch, three former and the present world No. 1 are tied for the lead on the AIG Ladies’s Open. Right here’s how issues are taking part in out on the Outdated Course at St. Andrews.
Lydia Ko is the AIG Ladies’s Open champion
Vu leaves her birdie putt to power a playoff nicely quick. Ko wins her first main championship since 2016 and her third total — and she or he does it on the Outdated Course. Ko has now received an Olympic gold medal, gained entry into the Corridor of Fame and received a serious at St. Andrews within the final three weeks.
Lilia Vu may have 15 ft to power a playoff
Perhaps Vu was too near the inexperienced. Her quick method flies previous the flag and settles 15 ft from the outlet. She should make that to power a playoff with Lydia Ko.
Lilia Vu with large putt, large bounce
Vu saves par on the seventeenth to stay one again of Lydia Ko after which hits a fantastic drive on the par-4 18th which catapults ahead off the crossroad and nearer the inexperienced. She wants birdie to power a playoff — or an eagle will win it.
One other large quantity ruins Nelly Korda’s probability at Outdated Course win
Korda was main by two when she made a horrible double bogey from close to the inexperienced on the par-5 14th. After profitable the season’s first main, the Chevron Championship, Korda has had some tough moments in large occasions:
- U.S. Ladies’s Open: Makes a ten on her second gap of the championship en path to a gap 80 and a missed minimize.
- KPMG Ladies’s PGA: After opening in 69, shoots 81 in Spherical 2 to overlook the minimize.
- Olympic competitors: With a shot at a medal, Korda performs the again 9 in 40, together with a triple bogey on the par-4 fifteenth, to tie for twenty sixth.
Nelly Korda won’t win her second main in 2024
Needing to gap her wedge shot on the par-4 18th to catch Lydia Ko, Korda flew her method nicely lengthy of the flag and now has 30 ft for birdie.
Nelly Korda bogeys the seventeenth, falls two again
And similar to that, Korda goes from co-leader to 2 off the tempo with one to play. Simply after Lydia Ko birdied the 18th, Korda missed a 10-footer for par on the seventeenth. Korda now must eagle the par-4 18th to have an opportunity at a playoff.
Lydia Ko birdies the 18th at St. Andrews!
Ko hits a superb method shot into the par-4 18th after which makes the 6-foot slider to take the solo lead at 7 beneath.
Korda offers her an opportunity for par on the seventeenth
After hitting her method shot into the Highway Gap bunker, she performs a deft shot to 10 ft.
We now have three tied on the prime
Jiyai Shin bogeys the fifteenth to drop to five beneath. It’s now Nelly Korda, Lydia Ko and Lilia Vu tied for the lead at 6 beneath.
Nelly Korda and Lilia Vu narrowly miss birdies
Korda, attempting to bounce again from a brutal double bogey on the par-5 14th, which resulted in a logjam on the prime, had 10 ft for birdie on the sixteenth however missed. She stays at 6 beneath.
Vu, the defending champion, lipped out a 25-foot birdie putt on the fifteenth and stays at 6 beneath, too.
Lydia Ko pars the Highway Gap
After a beautiful method shot to the brutal par-4 seventeenth, Ko two-putts for par to stay at 6 beneath.
The rain is coming down
It’s the worst climate of the day with the ultimate group on the fifteenth gap.
