The gates will open at 8:00 a.m. in Orlando, Florida for the final tournament of the season at Grand Cypress Golf Club. The anticipation of who will be crowned worlds No. 1 is rising with each passing hour. The position, which has changed from Lorena Ochoa to Jiyai Shin, to Cristie Kerr and currently Yani Tseng. While the first round started in rather brisk temps, today was much better when the mercury hit into the 70's. This was after a frost delay this morning. We've seen players go from stocking caps to visors throughout the first and 3rd round of this week's tourney. The wind was also a factor in round one, with gusts up to 30 mph at times. Tomorrow's temperature is expected to reach 69 and holds a chance of showers. A delay or Monday finish will not bode well for those set to jump on a plane sunday evening and head to Dubai, United Arab Emirates where Michelle Wie will try and defend her title at the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters.
Current leader Amy Yang will tee off with Maria Hjorth at 11:35 a.m. Cristie Kerr and Seon Hwa Lee will be off at 11:25, following Laura Diaz and In-Kyung Kim who tee off at 11:15 a.m. Katherine Hull who has been playing a solid tourney this week, currently sits in a tie for 6th place with Morgan Pressel and In-Kyung Kim, all remain even. Cristie Kerr is tied with Seon Hwa Lee in 3rd placce at -3, just 3 strokes off our leader Amy Yang who is at -6. Maria Hjorth is one stroke behind Amy at -5. The Susan Lucci of Golf, Suzann Pettersen currently sits in a tie for 16th place with a +3. Juli Inkster is +5 and one of my favorites, Christina Kim is at +5 going into the final round.
Amy Yang's 3rd round did not fair as well as her first two, as she carded 2 bogeys and one double bogey. She did have 3 birdies, which allowed her to finish at +1 on the day. Her first round of 67 included 4 birdies and 1 eagle. Round two brought 5 birdies and 3 bogeys. For Amy to hold off those chasing the trophy for the final tourney this season, will have to eliminate those bogeys and I anticipate need about 5 birdies to stay in contention tomorrow.
Cristie Kerr sunk 3 birdies today to counterbalance her 2 bogeys and finish -1 for the day. She's had 3 rounds of 71. I anticipate Cristie will come out firing tomorrow and have at least 4 birdies on the front 9. While known to be the best putter on the LPGA, she will need to have a hot putter tomorrow if she's going to take the title back of World's No. 1. She's hit 33 fairways this week and 34 greens, with one sand save and 83 putts.
Azahara Munoz won "rookie of the year" and was presented a trophy at last night's festivities. She however, is not seeing any weekend play and missed the cut at +10. This had been one of her dreams she said, as she choked back tears throughout her acceptance speech. Tom Abott said there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
Televised coverage can be seen on Golf Channel at 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. ET
Now, Go Hit Some Balls...............
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