Wichanee Meechai thinks there may be a ghost in her rental home this week.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — Sleeping on the third-round lead is difficult sufficient for any professional. Add to it the pressures of a serious championship, and most gamers don’t get a full evening’s relaxation earlier than the largest days of their careers.
Wichanee Meechai falls into each classes after she shot her third straight spherical within the 60s Saturday at Lancaster Nation Membership to share the 54-lead within the U.S. Ladies’s Open with Minjee Lee and Andrea Lee at 5 below.
However Meechai, who superior by way of qualifying to make it to her fourth U.S. Open look (and first in three years), could also be sleepless for a distinct purpose Saturday evening. She thinks there may be a ghost in her rental home.
The 31-year-old from Thailand revealed Friday evening after she took the 36-hole lead that she thought her dwelling for the week may be haunted, however up to date reporters Saturday that there was little paranormal exercise the earlier evening.
“I’m not going to say I’m not afraid of it, however I’ll get alongside fairly nicely with the ghost,” Meechai stated. “I’m making an attempt to not say something if I hear one thing, so I’m simply making an attempt to behave regular.”
Meechai is a Buddhist and stated she does actually imagine in ghosts. In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, when a human dies, they might enter the ghost world after a interval of uncertainty.
It’s one thing Meechai stated she’s talked about earlier than, explaining there’s something in her faith like a shadow world.
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Her supervisor even provided to spend the evening along with her within the rental home to make her really feel extra snug, however Meechai declined and stated she was simply making an attempt to get together with the potential spirit customer. Nevertheless, she stated she would put on a Buddhist necklace for cover when she goes to sleep.
“You’ve got like a monk or one thing that you just respect and also you simply put it in your neck, and I put it on my neck after I sleep, so I feel it must be fantastic,” she stated.
The World No. 158 has by no means been able like this earlier than. Meechai’s greatest profession end on the LPGA Tour is a T5 on the 2021 Pure Silk Championship. Except for a T7 end three weeks in the past on the Cognizant Founders Cup, she hasn’t completed inside the highest 20 in any of her six different begins this season.
However this week in Lancaster, she’s one in every of simply two golfers to interrupt 70 in all three rounds. So if there’s a supernatural spirit occupying her home this week, it may be giving her the sting she must seize her breakthrough victory.
