Well, I said that Emma Talley's Round-of-32 match with Danielle Kang at the U.S. Women's Amateur would be tough, and so it is. Talley lost the first hole with a bogey, but won the third hole when Kang bogeyed. So they were all square after three holes. But then Kang showed why she is the defending champion in this event: she birdied the fourth, fifth, and sixth holes -- winning all three to move 3 up. Since then Talley has stopped the bleeding -- and she matched Kang's birdie on the eighth hole with a birdie of her own. But she is still 3 down with only 10 holes left.
Talley will be very disappointed in her play this morning. After playing very well all week, she bogeys the 9th hole to make the turn with a 3-over 39. Kang's par gives her a 2-under 34. More importantly, it gives Kang a four-hole lead with only nine holes left.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, at the PGA Championship in Atlanta -- "Glory's Last Chance" -- some guy named Tiger Woods has birdied three of his first five holes and is one shot off the early lead.
ReplyDeleteThe pressure seems to be getting to that "Tiger" guy -- he just took a double bogey to fall back to one under par.
ReplyDeleteAnd now Tiger has taken another bogey at 16 (his 7th hole of the day) to drop back to even. This is really shaping up as a lousy day for me.
ReplyDeleteEmma Talley and I will probably rolling back into western Kentucky about the same time tomorrow -- I don't think she's going to want to hang around Rhode Island for the weekend and watch someone else lift the trophy. She was absolutely hammered today, losing to Kang by 6 and 4. Kang played great -- she was five under through 14 holes when the match ended. But Talley didn't play well; she was two over through her 14 holes. Oh, well. Back to the old drawing board.
ReplyDeleteShe has my sympathy. The summer before my senior year, I had a fairly rotten time at Boys' State, and the resulting self-doubt certainly left me in a pretty low frame of mine.
ReplyDeleteWhat was "Boys' State"?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the wonderfully-named Brooke Pancake (of Chattanooga, Tennessee) won both of her matches today and will be carrying the Southern flag into the quarterfinals.
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