Emily Kristine Pedersen is on hearth. After setting the 36-hole event scoring report, Pedersen one-upped herself Saturday. She fired off an 8-under 62 at The ANNIKA pushed by Gainbridge at Pelican, tying the mark for lowest 54-hole rating in LPGA Tour historical past at 192.
Satirically, it was Annika Sorenstam who initially set the report again in 2003. Since then, Nasa Hataoka (2018), Sei Younger Kim (2018) and Danielle Kang (2021) matched the feat.
Following her record-setting spherical, Pedersen downplayed the significance of what she’s performed this week. As an alternative, she pointed to how the remainder of the sector can also be performing.
Her 62 Saturday was not even the low spherical of the day. That belonged to Amy Yang (61), who’s sitting T2, three photographs again at 15-under, alongside Lilia Vu.
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“If anybody within the high has obtained a 61 it’s going to be a troublesome day. I do know that everybody on the market has that in them, so I simply should attempt to make as many birdies as I can,” Pedersen stated looking forward to Sunday.
Pedersen began scorching, birdieing two of her first three holes. But it surely was her quick sport and talent to keep away from errors that stored her momentum alive.
“My quick sport was higher right now. It’s not been nice the final couple days, however right now was good. That’s form of what stored the bogeys off the cardboard and stored the momentum going,” stated Pedersen.
She is trying to change into the primary lady from Denmark to win on the LPGA Tour. With a victory, Pedersen is projected to climb inside the highest 35 of the Race to the CME Globe factors record and qualify for subsequent week’s CME Group Tour Championship.
Kendall Capps is the Senior Editor of SB Nation’s Enjoying By. For extra golf protection, observe us @_PlayingThrough on all main social media platforms.
