(West Lake Sammamish) Lexi Thompson had six birdies including three in a row on Thursday, shooting a 68 to take a one-stroke lead at the LPGA Championship.
She knew the journalists would next ask a question like this:
Would a victory in this major change her plans to no longer play full-time on the LPGA?
“I just take it one day at a time,” she said. I announced my intentions and I am very satisfied with them. Golf is a crazy sport, so I’m not going to look too far ahead. »
Her closest rivals are her compatriot Nelly Korda and Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit.
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Nelly Korda
Korda made a birdie on his last hole. She also scored sixes and threes in a row, but she made a double bogey.
“If you try to be aggressive when you’re in a bad position, it backfires on you,” Korda said. Overall, I think I played pretty well. I took my chances where I could and played more cautiously for the majority of the course. »
Korda made a 15-foot birdie putt on the ninth hole.
Champion of the event in 2016, Canadian Brooke Henderson could not do better than a 73, one shot higher than normal.
The Ontarian suffered four bogeys.
The other representative of the maple leaf, Savannah Grewal, played 78 (+6).