CINCINNATI — Chela Choi bogeyed her ultimate two holes Thursday, tarnishing an in any other case good spherical of 4-under 66 and falling to a three-way share of the lead with Rio Takeda and Ina Yoon on the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship.
Nelly Korda shot a spherical of 1-under 69, making 15 par and aiming for her third consecutive match victory. Korda received his third main, the Chevron Championship, in Mexico the next week and departed final week.
Gino Titicle, who received final week’s Mizuho Americas Open, additionally shot a 69. It was the identical rating the place Korda had a a lot completely different efficiency.
Korda had two birdies and one bogey at Maketewa Nation Membership in his first 12 months internet hosting an LPGA Tour occasion. Titicle had simply 5 pars: seven birdies and 6 bogeys.
Choi Hee-seop was 6 underneath, however slipped on the eighth shot and suffered his first bogey. On the ultimate gap, the lengthy ninth par-3, he did not rise up and down from the bunker.
“It is a tremendous laborious golf course,” Choi mentioned. “The fairways are very slim and the greens are…greens, not flags, like there’s a variety of bumps right here.”
Jin Yong Ko and Lilia Vu, who’ve performed in a number of majors, have been ranked 67th. Lydia Ko and Charlie Hull have been one stroke behind.
Lydia Ko was in the identical group as Korda and Titikul, who’re ranked first and second within the girls’s world rankings.
“Somebody requested me who I used to be enjoying with, and I mentioned, ‘I am enjoying No. 1 and No. 2, however they’re just about like No. 1 and No. 1,'” Coe mentioned. “Someplace on the again 9, I used to be fascinated by how good they’ve performed the previous few years. I believe that is essentially the most spectacular factor.”
“Gino, she’s received a couple of occasions, however she’s thrown herself into competition many occasions when she hasn’t received,” she added. “Nellie hasn’t completed larger than second this 12 months, so it was nice to have the ability to compete with them.”
