LANCASTER, Pa. — Wichanee Meechai has a share of the lead and each motive to really feel misplaced at a U.S. Girls’s Open that’s crowded on the high.
Meechai sometimes is stuffed with doubt and low on confidence, an instance of the 31-year-old Thai being sincere to a fault. She’s not totally positive if the rental dwelling the place she is staying alone has a ghost, however she thinks they’ll get alongside if it does.
After which there was that dream at 3 a.m. Saturday that she forgot to signal her scorecard.
“I dream in regards to the U.S. Open. I feel it’s in my thoughts, very deep in there,” Meechai mentioned. “I don’t suppose I can do away with it. I’m simply attempting to get together with it.”
All of the whereas, Meechai has been taking part in like she’s been right here all alongside. She delivered two huge pars late Saturday afternoon for a 1-under 69, giving her a share of the lead with two-time main champion Minjee Lee (66) and Stanford alum Andrea Lee (67).
Minjee Lee took benefit of one of many ahead tees by hitting 6-iron to tap-in vary for eagle on the par-5 seventh gap that received her proper into the combo, and she or he stayed there with a couple of different key pictures alongside the best way to match the low rating of the championship.
Andrea Lee performed bogey-free on the again 9 with back-to-back birdies that received her into the ultimate group.
Former AIG Girls’s Open champion Hinako Shibuno had seven birdies for a 66 and was two behind. One other shot again was Yuka Saso, who saved pictures together with her putter and one elegant flop shot over a bunker to a good pin on the par-3 seventeenth. She dropped two pictures late for a 69.
Meechai was among the many solely 5 gamers who remained below par, all with an inexpensive probability of claiming the most important prize in ladies’s golf at Lancaster Nation Membership, a course that calls for all the things from everybody.
All of the others have skilled huge moments — main champions in Minjee Lee, Shibuno and Saso, the Solheim Cup stress for Andrea Lee.
$2.4 million payoff to the winner, by far the most important in ladies’s golf. Lancaster has had enormous galleries all week, identical to in 2015, and the stage may really feel even greater.
Saturday was nonetheless powerful sufficient for 15-year-old Asterisk Talley, the youngest participant within the discipline and a highschool freshman taking part in within the third-to-last group. She shot 78 to fall out of competition, going from 5 pictures behind to 14 pictures out of the lead.
