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RTÉ News
15-06-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Lexi Thompson among six at summit for Meijer LPGA Classic finale
Six players, including Lexi Thompson, are tied at the top of the leaderboard after three rounds of the Meijer LPGA Classic in Belmont, Michigan. Thompson carded a four-under 68, as did co-leaders Nanna Koerstz Madsen of Denmark and Paraguay's Sofia Garcia. Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom tied for the best round of the day on Saturday, carding a five-under 67, while South Korea's Hye-Jin Choi and Spain's Carlota Ciganda each posted a three-under 69 to create the six-player logjam. "Of course it was a close call last year, but it's fair game tomorrow," said Thompson, who lost to Lilia Vu in a playoff at the Blythefield CC layout in 2024. "Everybody is going to come out swinging. Good weather tomorrow, so I know birdies will have to be made and I'll have to go pin-seeking. I will hope for the best, go out there and embrace the opportunity, and really love on the fans." Thompson, who has not won on tour since 2019, recorded seven birdies and three bogeys and finished with birdies on 16 and 18. Sagstrom dazzled the crowd, producing eagles on the fourth and sixth holes, sandwiched around a birdie on the fifth. The 2025 LPGA Match Play winner, who holed out from the fairway on the sixth, got to 12 under with a birdie at 14, but bogeyed the par-4 16th hole to drop to 11 under. Sagstrom will be paired with Thompson and Koerstz Madsen in the final threesome of the day on Sunday. Australia's Karis Davidson is two strokes behind at nine under, while four players - including Megan Khang - are tied at eight under. Wei-Ling Hsu of Chinese Taipei tied Sagstrom for the low round of the day and is tied for 12th at 7-under par. enduring a fourth missed cut in a row on tour following Friday's second round.
New Straits Times
15-06-2025
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Thompson in six-way tie for LPGA lead in Michigan
WASHINGTON: US veteran Lexi Thompson birdied two of the last three holes to card a four-under-par 68 and join a six-way tie for the lead at the Meijer LPGA Classic on Saturday. On a day when multiple players threatened but failed to break free atop the crowded leaderboard at Blythefield Country Club, Thompson was tied on 11-under 205 with Spain's Carlota Ciganda, South Korean Choi Hye-jin, Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom and Sofia Garcia of Paraguay. The leaders were two strokes clear of Australian Karis Davidson, who fired a one-under 71 for 207, with another four players tied on 208. For Thompson, it's another crack at a title she missed out on in a playoff last year, and a chance to add to her tally of 11 LPGA titles for the first time since 2019. "Feel good about it," said Thompson, who is making just her sixth start of the season as she plays a limited schedule. "Hopefully I won't need my short game as much tomorrow. That's the goal. I didn't hit it my best today, but I tried to stay in the moment, stay positive and make the saves when I needed them." Thompson started the day one adrift and after a bogey at the third reeled off three straight birdies at four, five and six. She responded to a bogey at the ninth with birdies at 10 and 11 and after a bogey at 14, birdied 16 and 18. Choi, who was one of four players sharing the overnight lead, had three birdies without a bogey in her three-under 69 and had a chance to take the solo lead but missed a six-foot birdie putt at 18. Ciganda, also among the first-round leaders, made her fourth birdie of the day at 18 to cap her 69 and keep her name in the leading bunch. Sagstrom, winner of the LPGA Match Play earlier this season, thrust herself into contention when she picked up five shots in the space of three holes with eagles at the fourth and sixth sandwiched around a birdie at the fifth. She had three birdies and three bogeys the rest of the way in a five-under 67. Garcia had the solo lead at 13 under after an eagle and four birdies in her first 10 holes. But she fell back with three straight bogeys at 13, 14 and 15 before salvaging a share of the lead with a birdie at the last. Koerstz Madsen, who won her lone LPGA title in Thailand in 2022, was 13-under with a two-shot lead after six birdies through 16 holes. But she closed with back-to-back bogeys and said nerves were a contributing factor. "I know some of the swing got really fast at the end, so it's good that I can go and work on that and know what Swing thought I have to think about when that happens for tomorrow," she said. --AFP
France 24
14-06-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Thompson in six-way tie for LPGA lead in Michigan
On a day when multiple players threatened but failed to break free atop the crowded leaderboard at Blythefield Country Club, Thompson was tied on 11-under 205 with Spain's Carlota Ciganda, South Korean Choi Hye-jin, Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom and Sofia Garcia of Paraguay. The leaders were two strokes clear of Australian Karis Davidson, who fired a one-under 71 for 207, with another four players tied on 208. For Thompson, it's another crack at a title she missed out on in a playoff last year, and a chance to add to her tally of 11 LPGA titles for the first time since 2019. "Feel good about it," said Thompson, who is making just her sixth start of the season as she plays a limited schedule. "Hopefully I won't need my short game as much tomorrow. That's the goal. I didn't hit it my best today, but I tried to stay in the moment, stay positive and make the saves when I needed them." Thompson started the day one adrift and after a bogey at the third reeled off three straight birdies at four, five and six. She responded to a bogey at the ninth with birdies at 10 and 11 and after a bogey at 14, birdied 16 and 18. Choi, who was one of four players sharing the overnight lead, had three birdies without a bogey in her three-under 69 and had a chance to take the solo lead but missed a six-foot birdie putt at 18. Ciganda, also among the first-round leaders, made her fourth birdie of the day at 18 to cap her 69 and keep her name in the leading bunch. Sagstrom, winner of the LPGA Match Play earlier this season, thrust herself into contention when she picked up five shots in the space of three holes with eagles at the fourth and sixth sandwiched around a birdie at the fifth. She had three birdies and three bogeys the rest of the way in a five-under 67. Garcia had the solo lead at 13 under after an eagle and four birdies in her first 10 holes. But she fell back with three straight bogeys at 13, 14 and 15 before salvaging a share of the lead with a birdie at the last. Koerstz Madsen, who won her lone LPGA title in Thailand in 2022, was 13-under with a two-shot lead after six birdies through 16 holes. But she closed with back-to-back bogeys and said nerves were a contributing factor. "I know some of the swing got really fast at the end, so it's good that I can go and work on that and know what Swing thought I have to think about when that happens for tomorrow," she said.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Yan and Buhai share lead at LA Championship
Liu Yan of China shared the lead after the first round of the LA Championship (Katelyn Mulcahy) China's Liu Yan and South Africa's Ashleigh Buhai both shot 9-under par rounds of 63 to share the lead after the first round of the LA Championship on Thursday. But on a day of low scoring at El Caballero Country Club, Sweden's Frida Kinhult was just a shot off the leading pair and a chasing pack of five were just a further stroke behind. Advertisement Liu made a shaky start with a bogey on her opening hold, the par-4 10th, but she was electric from then on making birdies on three of her next four holes before an eagle on the par-5 16th. She finished her round with three birdies in a row and carded her lowest score on the LPGA Tour. "I think on my first hole I was a little nervous. I had high expectations for myself and I was nervous," said the 29-year-old, searching for her first win on the LPGA Tour which she joined in 2018. "I got bogey and before the next hole I told myself, 'You have to be calm and you have to be confident and be brave. You can do it.' I just talked with myself," she said. Advertisement Buhai, the 2022 British Open winner, was blemish free through her round, starting with a birdie on the tenth. "Obviously any day you have a bogey-free round, that's a good day. I was very patient; hit a lot of good shots. I mean, you have to hole a lot of good putts as well. But I felt the pins were in locations we could access them today as long as you use the slopes correctly," she said. "I feel that's kind of what this course is like. If you hit it into the right bowls you'll get good results; otherwise you can short side yourself very easily and it can't be fun," added the 35-year old. Kinhult was also bogey-free and finished her round off in style with birdies on each of the last three holes although she accepted she had relied on her putter. Advertisement "I guess it was a smooth ride. Saved maybe two or three pars from, I don't know, six, nine footers. Other than that... golf felt easy for once, so hopefully we'll enjoy that ride the next few days as well," she said. The chasing pack on 7-under includes South Korean trio Jenny Shin, Chun In-gee and Lee Jeong-eun along with China's Miranda Wang and Sweeden's Madelene Sagstrom. Sagstrom, who tasted victory in the LPGA Match Play event in Las Vegas earlier this month, ended her round with a hole-in-one on the par-3 ninth her first ever ace on the tour. But with a tight leaderboard, American Nelly Korda, last year's Tour Player of the Year, who racked up seven victories in 2024, was tied for 15th but was just four shots off the lead. Korda made three bogeys on her round but all of them were three putts after she shit 18 out of 18 greens. Her round was saved by a streak of four straight birdies on her back nine. sev/bfm
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Sagstrom digs deep to win LPGA Match Play
Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom overcame a mid-round slump to win the LPGA Match Play in Las Vegas (David Becker) Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom overcame a mid-round slump to score a 1-up victory over the USA's Lauren Coughlin and win the LPGA Match Play tournament in Las Vegas on Sunday. The 32-year-old world number 67 dug deep with a gritty display at the Shadow Creek Golf Course to clinch only the second LPGA title of her career. Advertisement Sagstrom had looked to be poised to claim an emphatic victory early in Sunday's final, quickly racing into to a 4-up lead after the opening six holes. But her smooth early form disintegrated over the next four holes, and a disastrous performance on the 11th, when she twice mis-hit attempted chips onto the green, allowed Coughlin to make it all square. Coughlin, the 13th seed who had edged Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn in the semi-finals, then sneaked into a 1-up lead on the 12th when Sagstrom's par-putt lipped out. Sagstrom though hit back on the par-three 13th when Coughlin could only make a bogey to put it back to all-square. Advertisement The next two holes were squared before Sagstrom won what would turn out to be the decisive hole on the 16th, when Coughlin made a double-bogey seven. A superb chip helped Sagstrom save par on the 17th, and Coughlin missed a birdie putt that would have tied it again before the two players parred the 18th. Sagstrom, who had beaten Angel Yin in Sunday's semi-finals, blamed tiredness on her mid-round wobble. "I'm exhausted and I bet Lauren is exhausted," she said after her win. "I'm so tired and I think it really kind of hit my swing there in the middle. "I said to (caddie) Shane (Codd), I can do this. I just need to find some sort of feeling to hit some good golf shots again. "I just kind of dug deep and was like, oh, well, hopefully it's not too many holes left. It's just amazing." rcw/sev
