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Good afternoon. This is certainly a major golfing weekend with the men | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
in New Jersey and the women at Woburn in Bedfordshire on the third | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
day of the women's Ricoh Championship. This club's played a | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
huge part in this 40-year-old Championship. It was here in the 80s | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
and 90s, it really helped grow it before it was designated one of the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
now five women's majors at the turn of the new millennium. Along the | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
way, we have exchanged a sparkling crystal trophy for a shiny beautiful | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
silver pitcher which echoes I think the elegant lines of a certain old | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Claret Jug won at Troon a couple of week ago. This weekend, there are | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
four women in the field who know exactly what it takes to win such a | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
prize and they are very much in the hunt for another title here. | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
Woe bunk's tree-lined course is a far cry from the bracing Links | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
conditions. It's 17 years since our last visit to Bedfordshire and 21 | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
since the reveered Australian Karrie Webb claimed the first of her | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
British open wins on the adjacent course. Amazing. In her rookie year. | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
Catriona Matthew enjoyed her finest year at Lytham. She's Britain's most | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
recent winner. Stacy Lewis made history too, the | :02:01. | :02:17. | |
first pro to win at the Open course. Stacy's fellow American, Mo Martin | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
sprung an almighty surprise at Birkdale. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Well, all of them are hard on the heels of a tie. Aria Jutanugarn. | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
China's top talent, Shanshan Feng and the half way leader Mirim Lee of | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
South Korea. They are the pace-setters. | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
And 25-year-old Mirim Lee's lofty position which ties the half way | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
record equalled another score. Woburn's Charley Hull, the fearless | :02:59. | :03:26. | |
20 old, has two former US Open champions, Lexi Thompson and Yu in | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
her group. Amateur rankings all made it to the weekend. Ied ya Ko only | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
just made the cut at level par. -- Lydia Ko. Liz Young completed her | :03:41. | :03:58. | |
two rounds at seven months pregnant and she'll now put her feet up until | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
the birth of her baby because she and her husband will get very little | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
rest once he or she arrives! It's hello to the former Curtis cup | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
player Maureen. It looked like it would be a run away early on, but | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
not now? It's a great equaliser and the field's bunched up. We are only | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
half way through. We get excited on Saturday but there's as much golf to | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
come today as the feast that we have already seen. Looking at the course | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
set-up, I don't think there's such a low round out there today. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Toughening up the flag positions is fair enough when you come into the | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
weekend of a major. Indeed. There's been a lot of talk | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
about the fact that this is the shortest of the venues on the major | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
circuit in golf this week. You see Jutanugarn and Feng, but in some way | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
it's stifled the longer hitters too. Whose game is it best suiting? When | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
this course was designed 16 years ago, players still shaped the ball. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
They don't do that now, the equipment doesn't make it so easy so | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
people at home know that's why you hit it straight because the | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
equipment helps you. So now they play to positions, it's all very | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
positional. They play to the elbows and the dog leg so it's become a | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
matter of it takes you a four iron and takes me a three wood. So that | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
to me makes the shots into the green key. Absolutely prime importance. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
There are a number of holes that are tricky but there are also some when | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
you have a lot of loft in your hand. The short irons and getting on to | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
the right portion of the segment of greens is absolutely vital. If you | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
do that, you can have makeable bishopedy putts. If you get swept | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
away to another area, it's difficult to get down in two. We'll see how | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
the 75 women who made the cut for the weekend got on. They were out | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
since 8 this morning and Charley Hull, the 20-year-old, this is her | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
at the first 20 minutes ago. She's played here since she was eight | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
years of age, said she'd never felt nerves like it on the first day of | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
the opening morning but beginning to enjoy the high expectation levels | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
and of course the sup port as well. She's a force of nature this woman. | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
I've been here since I was about nine years old so it's just nice to | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
be home. I love it. I feel a lot of pressure but at the end of the day | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
you have to deal with it. That'll keep her round going. It | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
will be good if it's up. Yes! Charley's my darling! There she goes | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
again. Keep that one for the harvest festival. Good shot. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
She's done it. Well done. Perfect. A scrappy sort of round turned into a | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
pretty good score at the end of the day. I liked it yesterday because I | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
started with a few birdies and did it well. No reason why I can't go | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
low. Great run around the turn. Five birdies in six holes got me going. | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
Tidy round. I hit some good shots, just didn't get up and down. | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Chipping wasn't that good. I'm happy with the way I came through in the | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
middle part. Sadly she's not going to be very happy at the start. She | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
hit her second into the trees, and this is a triple bogey. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Unfortunately for Charley. Having started the day at five under, she's | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
back to two under. We have seen her charging before. Saw this at Royal | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Birkdale a couple of years ago, but what a horrible jolt in momentum | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
that is, Maureen? Very disappointing for Charley, but for the home fans | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
as well. You know, she's the sort of player who can light the | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
after-burners. Sometimes you go out almost trying to predict something | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
that you don't have and it's like you need to give yourself permission | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
to go for it and play well and be uninhibited. She reminds me a lot in | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
her thinking of Alison Nicholas who was a former winner. She was very | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
uncomplicated. I asked her once, if you are out there playing and start | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
losing, what do you do to fix it and she looked at me in astonishment and | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
she said, I am further right. That's Charley's kind of thinking and I | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
think that's a great lesson because we get too complicated and we forget | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
about the essence of the game. So yes it's not a good start but it | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
doesn't mean that's the end of that round. Live coverage coming up and a | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
quick update for you following the fortunes of the world number one. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Lydia Ko made a couple of birdies yesterday. She started the day at | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
level par, got it going on the back nine coming home today after an | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
early start. This was to go 4-under for her round at the 15th and now at | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
the 16th. This is the woman who's won, she's only 19, won five times | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
around the world already this season and this was to guarantee the birdie | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
at the 16th. S she popped that to to go 5-under and this was the makings | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
of the best round of the day. Looking very good. 5-under for the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
day and back in if thick of it. Rather like Charley, a bit of a jolt | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
coming home in her case because she lost her ball off the tee at the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
18th. Double bogey followed it for a six there and a round of 69 that | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
could have been a whole lot better. She would sign for that 69, 3-under | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
for her round. She spoke to Maureen once she came off the course. | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
69 puts you at 3-under but it promised so much more at one point? | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Yes, I actually wasn't hitting my tee shots very well in the front | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
nine but was able to make a lot of up and downs. On the back nine, my | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
putter got rolling, I wasn't putting very well the last two days so it | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
was good to see some putts falling. I had a wayward shot on 18. Tough to | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
finish on that but it's the best score I had during this tournament | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
so hopefully another low one tomorrow. The flags are a little | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
more taut today so how low a score do you think there is out there for | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
the leaders? I feel like the wind is a little calmer than the last two | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
days, even though it's tucked a bit. Because the greens aren't super | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
firm, I think if you are far enough up there, it's still approachable. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
You just never know. Pressure can get to you. The 18th got to me. It | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
all depends. The leaders have been playing great golf. I've seen some | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
of their highlights, they have been hitting it close. I have a good | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
feeling they are still going to hit a low one today. Finished in the top | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
three of the last five majors and won two of them. Lydia Ko. Might not | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
be her weekend though. Whose will it be? This is the live leaderboard. In | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
Gee Chun is making her presence felt. Karrie Webb just about to get | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
her round under way. There's Lydia Ko having posted the | :11:27. | :11:46. | |
round of 69 and we'll see Charley Hull there. The leading amateur, | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Bronte Law just there. Maureen, there is one woman in the | :11:54. | :12:09. | |
field who is perhaps double the average age of the professionals and | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
it's Catriona Matthew, 46, she won't like me saying that, but perhaps one | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
of the underrated sportswomen in the country. How much does she deserve | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
the accolades coming her way now? It's fantastic. Any of us who know | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Catriona, she's not the greatest self-publicist. She's accomplished | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
so much in a quiet manner efficiently over a long time, she's | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
had a wonderful career, she knows what it takes to win a major and | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
she'll be comfortable in the position she's in. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Ken Brown, rather not like the last few years in the Championship, was | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
not about to be swept into the sea in high winds, he's entering the | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
zen-like calm that always surrounds Catriona Matthew. Looking forward to | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
it? Absolutely. Supping a bit of water at the moment. Always nervous | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
no matter how experienced or good you are, the first ever major | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
Championship on any day is tough. Jutanugarn is an amazing hitter. She | :13:05. | :13:23. | |
played on the LPGA tour when she was 11 years old! Hit the ball a country | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
mile. She hit a five iron 195 yards she said yesterday. Short and | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
straight, keep it under control and it will be interesting to see who | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
comes out on top. Not much breeze about. The course perfect. I'm going | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
to join them down the fairway. We'll leave you to it. By the way, nice | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
hat! Let's just remind everybody of the pairings. | :13:47. | :14:01. | |
Karrie Webb and Stacy Lewis, what a pairing, they own nine majors | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
between them. This will be fascinating, Mirim Lee | :14:09. | :14:46. | |
held the half way lead in the WPGA Championship, another major in June, | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
only to fall down and also was well in the hunt in the US Open. There's | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
a woman there, it's Catriona Matthew who knows how to get the job done in | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
this Championship. Let's see how she goes in the company of Andrew and | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Peter. Good afternoon. We are looking forward to a very | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
pleasant afternoon, although the sun's gone in at the moment. It's a | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
bit cloudy. Slightly cooler too. Just waiting. The calm before the | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
storm. Charley Hull's taken goodness how long to play the first hole. Not | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
too wild a tee shot. A dreadful second, hit the trees, ricochetted | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
around. All her fans who went down the first fairway... | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
On the tee from Scotland Catriona Matthew. | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
The pride of Scotland tees it up. Watch this gentle swing. Ken said | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
she's not a crash, bang who will lop player, just quietly in the male | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
game a few years ago, they had players who plotted it quietly down | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
the fairway. She plays that way. High tee. Swept straight off the top | :16:00. | :16:21. | |
of the peg. Absolutely down the middle of the fairway. | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
On the tee from Thailand, aria Jutanugarn. | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
-- Ariya Jutanugarn. She can hit an iron off the tee most | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
of the time with great distance. Doesn't use a driver. Rounds of 65 | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
and 69. A little smile before she walks to the ball, which is her | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
trigger. Hugely powerful figure and a great | :16:52. | :17:07. | |
contrast as well between these two. Shoot forward. That 'ing just about | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
alongside the driver of Catriona Matthew. Gloucestershire | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
Gloucestershire that's just. And off they go. | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
Mo Martin. Won in such fine style at Birkdale two years ago. Hit the flag | :17:29. | :17:41. | |
in the final hole. A bit of work for her par there. | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
A delicate one. She's done it again. Very vicious swing for such a short | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
shot. More ways to play them than that. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Jang. Lovely pace. Ha Na Jang, incredibly strong South Korean | :18:09. | :18:23. | |
contingent. 38 of the world's top 100 are from South Korea. | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
The course is in absolutely splendid condition. I was out with Ken this | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
morning having a look around. The quality of the grass on the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
surrounds of the greens and on the greens and the tees, everything is | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
absolutely immaculate even though there was so much rain early in the | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
year. It really is a treat. If you knock | :18:50. | :19:06. | |
it in, strike this nicely off the middle of the putter and feel the | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
ball goes nicely in the hole, it's great and a settling feeling. If you | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
give it a tweak and miss it, you think, oh, God, is it going to be | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
one of them sort of days? ! Bit short and jabby, but it went in. | :19:20. | :19:35. | |
That's the way she does it. Remains eight under par. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Look at where they lie in the group of Catriona Matthew and Jutanugarn. | :19:41. | :19:58. | |
So precise. You wonder how that ever make any mistakes. Seen them do | :19:59. | :20:23. | |
this, then they go 20 yards over the green. We'll see where this one | :20:24. | :20:38. | |
goes. 125 yards. Power allows you to put a bit of extra spin on this. | :20:39. | :20:51. | |
Hard bounce and stop. OK. One thing that was so impressive about | :20:52. | :21:07. | |
Catriona yesterday, about to hit 18 greens in regulation. Doesn't happen | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
too often. She'll probably have to land a little further short and | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
release up to the flag. Perfect angle, lovely lie. Tidy swing. | :21:19. | :21:33. | |
Perfect length. Husband Graham on the bag. | :21:34. | :21:49. | |
Scenes at the first tee. Only 25 yards or so away from the 18th. | :21:50. | :22:04. | |
Starters box. The figure of Alastair Scotts waiting to start them off. | :22:05. | :22:35. | |
Looks very tidy here, they have set it up beautifully. | :22:36. | :22:51. | |
Shanshan Feng likes her colourful trousers. | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
Jutt jutt and Matthew -- Jutanugarn and Matthew are pacing and throwing | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
and catching. More pacing. She's certainly giving it a lot of | :23:08. | :23:34. | |
thought, this one. There are lots of subtle runs on these greens, long, | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
slow rolls, no sharp edges to the greens. But you've got to know what | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
you are doing, particularly from 14-18 yard ranges. You have to aim | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
off two, three, four feet sometimes and pace is so important. | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
Still not sure who is going to two first, I'll be honest, Peter. There | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
is a lot of circumnavigating with putts from everybody. I think it's | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Jutanugarn. Yes, it is. There wasn't much in it. Both putts down the | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
slope. No great sense of urgency, Ken. It's that type of morning, a | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Saturday morning. It's afternoon now, Kenneth. Well... I tell you, | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
that hat is not doing you any favours. Sorry, I love you to bits, | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
but that hat will have to go! Get the top down on the car on the way | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
home, then you can throw it away! You are so kind, Peter. Could be. | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
Oh! Robbery. If she'd just taken her time over it, it might have dropped. | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
A very comfortable par-4 to start with for Jutanugarn. | :25:00. | :25:15. | |
Here come the last pair. The last pair of the final round of the | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
Ricoh, game number 38. On the tee, from China, Yushchenko Feng. -- | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
Shanshan Feng. Very strong contender I fancy, this lady. Just plods along | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
quietly. Goodn't me, that is a long way -- | :25:38. | :26:16. | |
goodness me. Mirim Lee. The opening round she produced on | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
Thursday. She backed that up yesterday with 71. | :26:24. | :26:41. | |
Also good tee shot. That one didn't get the gigantic leap forward. | :26:42. | :26:53. | |
Trundled on a bit, but not anything like her companion for the day. | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Landed in just about the same place, in a little soft speck. Back to | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Matthew on the green. Lady's golf's answer to Luke Donald! | :27:03. | :27:40. | |
But she has a major. Broch Larsen of Denmark going very, very well. | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
Three birdies in her first seven holes. Seventh place at the moment. | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
Thompson. Second shot at the fourth. 6-under par. That was a horrid | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
swing. What happened there? Good result, perhaps the way to do | :28:09. | :28:18. | |
it! Oh, it couldn't, wouldn't, shouldnd. Nearly. It was odd, like | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
she was trying to correct something midway through. I don't know, looks | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
as though she was startled by a buffalo or something. Extraordinary | :28:28. | :28:28. | |
shot. Stacy Lewis for her birdie on the | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
second. Good roll. Spoke too soon. | :28:38. | :28:50. | |
Apologies, Stacy. Two pars to start with in the second is a gentle | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
enough par-5. Missed opportunity. Always looks slightly cross to me, | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
Stacy. Here we are at the second tee. Matthew playing it high. Sweep | :29:03. | :29:14. | |
it off the top of the tee. I fancy that as left a bit. | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
Very short rough there, what there is of it. Not bad. One loose tee | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
shot yesterday, or in the whole round. That was a tee shot on the | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
16th left. She's just about gotten away with it. Mo Martin same to the | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
third hole. Lovely. Beautifully played. Very good short iron player. | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
Not the longest hit ever in the world -- hitter in the world. | :29:43. | :29:51. | |
Sail down the fort. A little wiggle in the trees. We are blessed with a | :29:52. | :30:03. | |
forest here so lots of big, mature trees. Give the fairway some | :30:04. | :30:04. | |
definition. 106, 104. Talking about the 50 | :30:05. | :30:36. | |
degrees wedge. We will just see how close she is to being the right | :30:37. | :30:38. | |
distance. Looked a good hit. There, you see. | :30:39. | :31:04. | |
All that fuss and bother and at least you can judge for yourself. | :31:05. | :31:18. | |
15, 18 yards short from 110 yards. A lot further down the fairway, | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
Shanshan Feng. They are having their chat now. Huge drive, wasn't it? | :31:25. | :31:35. | |
This is just a simple pitch up, with whatever you are going to hit it | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
with. Don't do anything fancy, just land it over the bunker. It will end | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
up fairly near. 125... I am sorry if I seem a little | :31:45. | :32:21. | |
facetious. She was lucky to get the big bounce forward from her drive. | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
The second was not so fortunate. Bit of a break in this one for Lexi | :32:29. | :32:38. | |
Thompson. Caress it in. Good start continues. Couple of birdies in the | :32:39. | :32:47. | |
first four holes. Quick check on the leaderboard. Catriona Matthew is, | :32:48. | :32:56. | |
one shot behind the leader. Shanshan Feng, no fireworks from the Chinese | :32:57. | :33:05. | |
player as yet. Nicole Brock Larsen, last year's player's Player of the | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
Year, one of the emerging stars in European golf, as are a lot of other | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
young Danes who could put their names to that title as well. She is | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
3-under through eight holes. Looking further down, Ashleigh Simon of | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
South Africa. She will be going to Rio as one of their competitors, in | :33:26. | :33:32. | |
fact 41 of the 60 strong field that will contest for the Gold Medal in | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
Rio are here at Woburn this weekend. Further down, Karim -ish France will | :33:39. | :33:55. | |
also be on the plane for France. Now, to Shanshan Feng. Third shot on | :33:56. | :34:06. | |
the opening hole. You don't want this aggravation in trying to get up | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
and down in two from here. Can't say much about that one. Two | :34:09. | :34:46. | |
Mo Martin. Hopefully a tap in for a birdie. Oh dear. | :34:47. | :35:01. | |
Why did you have two mark from ten inches and line it up? You don't | :35:02. | :35:10. | |
have it to be Einstein to work out it takes longer to go round. You can | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
see a bit of a ridge running across the green, just in front of where | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
her ball is. Calculation with the second shot. | :35:25. | :35:54. | |
AJ at the 2nd. Big tree standing down on the left-hand side of the | :35:55. | :36:20. | |
green, she fires it down the right. It bounces up and on. Not many | :36:21. | :36:29. | |
getting on in two here. It's not the longest par-5, but you have got to | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
be deadly accurate. Catriona Matthew 's has laid up. Then, to try and | :36:34. | :36:45. | |
save par. Great position of the tee. Huge drive. | :36:46. | :37:05. | |
That was a dreadful five after that wonderful tee shot. That is just | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
poor playing. Husband clears the stage and | :37:11. | :37:32. | |
Catriona Matthew has done laying up a good yardage. | :37:33. | :37:50. | |
That'll do. That'll do very nicely. She is one of these players that | :37:51. | :38:02. | |
makes it look so easy. And you think, I should swing app that is, | :38:03. | :38:11. | |
it is very simple. Mirim Lee making short work of this par opening hole. | :38:12. | :38:21. | |
Get that four. It almost feels like a birdie after all the messing | :38:22. | :38:31. | |
about. State of affairs, Mirim Lee keeps hold of her slender lead. | :38:32. | :38:42. | |
Shanshan Feng, slipping away back down to 9-under. Maguire, the young | :38:43. | :38:51. | |
Irish amateur is going great guns. 6-under as she enters the back nine. | :38:52. | :39:02. | |
Two wonderfully struck shots. Little up the hill. The bank of the bunker | :39:03. | :39:14. | |
at the front of the green will make it turn to the right. You would | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
settle for two puts here, wouldn't you? Without any doubt. It looks | :39:22. | :39:29. | |
very drive. It could be a bit quicker than you think. Two | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
magnificently well struck shots to find the green. It is a tricky green | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
to find with a long iron. Pushing it. She gave that a good | :39:38. | :40:00. | |
whack. It is well judged indeed. What a super putt. | :40:01. | :40:13. | |
Power is no good if you cannot back it up with the Knights touch on the | :40:14. | :40:25. | |
green. Jutanugarn takes her share of the lead with Mirim Lee. They both | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
might end up with a four but they have different ways. | :40:32. | :40:42. | |
It is marvellous, so many different ways of playing golf. Absolutely, | :40:43. | :40:50. | |
absolutely. That was one of the great lines from John Jacobs. One of | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
the problems with the game is there are so many ways of playing it well. | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
So it is hard to teach a method. You have Lee Trevino 's, Jim Furyk, then | :41:03. | :41:10. | |
you have the purists, the longer hitters, the shorts, to be one. This | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
is for a birdie at the 2nd Matthew. Well done. Birdie, birdie start. | :41:22. | :41:36. | |
3-way tie at the top. Matthew, Jutanugarn, and Mirim Lee. Maureen | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
has joined us. I have just had an nice wander around a few of the | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
holes. Perfect conditions. Nice bit of cool air wafting through the | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
trees, so it doesn't get too heavy for the spectators. Good crowds. All | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
the pressure on this overnight leader and Catriona Matthew 's has | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
thrown down the gauntlet and made a statement of intent. It is a good | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
one bolted away by Mirim Lee here on the second. Go to the fifth and Lexi | :42:12. | :42:23. | |
Thompson. A few players have made a good start, and Lexi Thompson is | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
certainly one of those. Birdies on the second and the fourth. Lovely | :42:28. | :42:29. | |
putt. Colourful Shanshan Feng. Colourful, | :42:30. | :42:52. | |
in more ways than one. Very entertaining character. Just bumping | :42:53. | :43:06. | |
into the second cuts, but no bother there. | :43:07. | :43:16. | |
You are thinking, planning and plotting your start to the round. | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
Catriona Matthew, look so solid. Slightly loose tee shot on the | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
second, but two birdie opportunities and two taken. She is certainly | :43:29. | :43:36. | |
carrying, as you might expect, Charley Hull, by contrast, a | :43:37. | :43:45. | |
dreadful start. Triple bogey on the first and no birdie since. She has | :43:46. | :43:56. | |
been 2-under par. Ha-Na Jang. Did well to get it out of there. Coming | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
round nicely. That's looking down at the 2nd. Both | :44:00. | :44:19. | |
players lying OK. Green is sort of tucked round the corner on the | :44:20. | :44:23. | |
left-hand side a little bit. You can see, there is a couple of those huge | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
pine trees which are very strategically placed with bunkers | :44:29. | :44:31. | |
eating into the left-hand portion the green. Few approving cries. | :44:32. | :44:46. | |
Click on, click on. Very well done. That is threading the eye of a | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
needle there, Andrew. Wonderful golf shot. Very close to the rough on the | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
edge of the left-hand side. We will go to Catriona Matthew. 418 this | :44:57. | :45:06. | |
par-4, dogleg to the left. Piece of string, it is the perfect angle. | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
Very hard to keep it tight to the dogleg. That was down the left-hand | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
side and it has finished on the right half. Good, long hitter as | :45:19. | :45:25. | |
well. Trying to get close to the flag, so you have to get down the | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
fairway to give you the shortest possible line in. She will be trying | :45:30. | :45:36. | |
to work it round the corner with a draw. | :45:37. | :45:45. | |
Very athletic swing, Ken, isn't it? Hugely impressive, she is a | :45:46. | :45:53. | |
superstar in the making, no doubt about it. Still young, Jutanugarn, | :45:54. | :46:02. | |
20. Her sister Maria, has been playing well this week. The ball | :46:03. | :46:14. | |
above the feet of Mirim Lee, should help her maybe turn it over right to | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
left. Not got the distance. Big bunker down there, a lot of rough | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
stuff. She has slightly short sided herself as well. Lexi Thompson, on | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
the par-3 6th, playing 165 today. An idea of some of the humps and | :46:33. | :46:58. | |
hollows on the greens here. That is a view of the third. Beautifully | :46:59. | :47:07. | |
shaped fairways, just giving definition. Little chicanes of | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
twisting, ribbons of fairway that the players are teased to find. It | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
really is a beautiful spot. Mo Martin and Ha-Na Jang have | :47:19. | :47:45. | |
started with a couple of pars. Holding pattern at the moment. | :47:46. | :48:02. | |
Very good for pace. Very good, indeed. The television screen just | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
flattens out a lot of these greens. They really are very sloping indeed. | :48:10. | :48:20. | |
Slightly awkward one of Mirim Lee. Up and down for a birdie. | :48:21. | :48:49. | |
Mo Martin really relishes being battered in Britain. It is a very | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
different test of course than the one she faced a couple of years ago | :48:56. | :49:02. | |
at Royal Birkdale. It is just a different examination paper. She's | :49:03. | :49:10. | |
struggled a little bit with her left wrist injury over the years. You can | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
still see the strapping on her wrist. More precautionary at this | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
stage, than anything else. Not quite the pace. There are a number of | :49:22. | :49:29. | |
holes here you can rarely attack for a birdie and there are a few that | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
you have to be mindful and get past them. Some of these early holes are | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
the ones you need to get past with pars. | :49:39. | :49:49. | |
Jutanugarn, it really gave it a good hit at this hole. Just a little bit | :49:50. | :50:00. | |
shy. Not too bad from that distance. Bafta a very ugly opening hole, | :50:01. | :50:03. | |
looking to get one back. -- after. Ha-Na Jang, to finish well done. | :50:04. | :50:23. | |
Third part. One couple of times in America, always has effervescent | :50:24. | :50:35. | |
victory celebrations. Just checking that is a picture mark that Mirim | :50:36. | :50:45. | |
Lee can repair. Pitch marks, you are allowed to repair, but not spike | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
marks. Deep into pondering section on the screen. Mirim Lee will be the | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
first to go for her birdie attempt. Starting to get more crowded at the | :50:57. | :50:57. | |
top of the leaderboard. It looked good for a while and it | :50:58. | :51:33. | |
drifted off about 12 inches short of the hole. Great few here of Ha-Na | :51:34. | :51:43. | |
Jang's second at three. She would try and bully V8 iron. Her line is | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
pretty good. Distance is pretty good as well. It is a wonderful shot from | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
Jutanugarn. Just ripped through it and quite pleased with that. 172 | :51:55. | :52:03. | |
yards and an 8-iron. She really had to flash that indeed. It wouldn't | :52:04. | :52:12. | |
surprise me at all if Matthew had an 8-iron from where she is. 144. Can | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
use the contours to the left of the flag, be bold and go straight at it. | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
But coming up short, is not too kind. Very good. Just off the | :52:25. | :52:35. | |
putting surface, but close. Feng, for birdie. And into double | :52:36. | :53:03. | |
figures. One of the pace. It is now shared with three players. Stacy | :53:04. | :53:17. | |
Lewis. Not a great start, 1-over on the first three. Everyone else has | :53:18. | :53:26. | |
been picking up shots. This should get better now. Lovely shot from | :53:27. | :53:35. | |
Stacy Lewis. Former world number one. Winner of this at St Andrews | :53:36. | :53:44. | |
three years ago. Lexi Thompson spends more time on the practice | :53:45. | :53:47. | |
putting green band nearly any other player. Sometimes it has Depay R. | :53:48. | :53:58. | |
She is fairly low in the putting stats. Wonderful ball striker. She | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
just keeps working away. Got dad on the bag this week. Shanshan Feng, | :54:06. | :54:15. | |
3-wood off the tee. It is a dogleg to the left. Hast to hope that tree | :54:16. | :54:26. | |
on the left-hand side sticking out a little bit. Settles in, just. That's | :54:27. | :54:37. | |
OK, quite tight to that pin from the right-hand side. | :54:38. | :54:51. | |
What a lovely scene this is, Green surrounded by people and all the | :54:52. | :55:00. | |
trees out. These framed greens, all hoping Matthew can nudge this in to | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
take the lead. Little lucky with her second. Only just tipped over the | :55:07. | :55:18. | |
front. Like any good partnership, gets a lot of help from her husband. | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
Particularly on the greens. Didn't do what either of them | :55:22. | :55:38. | |
thought it would. Terrific follow-through by Mirim | :55:39. | :55:59. | |
Lee. Don't try that if you are watching at home, you might end up | :56:00. | :56:06. | |
in intensive care. You need a very live, supple body to make that | :56:07. | :56:13. | |
movement. Stacy Lewis for her birdie on the fourth. Yes, it gets going in | :56:14. | :56:23. | |
the right direction again. Dropped a shot in the third. Back into the | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
group on 7-under alongside Lexi Thompson and Nicole Brock Larsson. | :56:29. | :56:43. | |
Dead centre. Really good touch and feel there from Jutanugarn. Moves to | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
12-under and takes the lead. She's been up at the sharp end of the | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
leaderboard already in Majors this year. Suffered a bit of a collapse | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
in the first one in the season when she was three shots clear. But she | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
learned from experience. She did, because she came back and won three | :57:11. | :57:17. | |
events on the trot. They were her breakthrough victories in America. | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
She has already won an event when she was much younger on the lady's | :57:22. | :57:28. | |
European Tour. She is a star in the making. Still has to make the key | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
breakthrough in a major Championship. Could this be it? Now, | :57:32. | :57:43. | |
Mo Martin. Very flat approach at the 4th. No bunkers on this hole, either | :57:44. | :57:53. | |
off the tee ball on the green. That's very, very good indeed! And | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
Mo Martin's got the laser irons working beautifully. Exceptional. | :58:00. | :58:11. | |
Looking at the contours and the shape of the 3rd hole. Shanshan Feng | :58:12. | :58:17. | |
let it slip away a little. Mirim Lee coming in from a much better line. | :58:18. | :58:28. | |
The contours of the green feed it round. You can aim to the left of | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
this pin and hopefully it should bring it round. | :58:33. | :58:50. | |
Was exactly where she was aiming. Just asking it to go. Had the line | :58:51. | :59:00. | |
only perfectly, just a little bit shy. | :59:01. | :59:12. | |
From the other side, good-looking lie in the rough, shouldn't | :59:13. | :59:23. | |
inconvenience Ha-Na Jang too much. The flag on this little collecting | :59:24. | :59:30. | |
basin on side. Hast to track over the ridge. Now watch this. Working | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
down beautifully. Two tasty shots there from this pairing. | :59:37. | :59:48. | |
Mirim Lee, very good line in here. Incredible follow-through. Just | :59:49. | :00:06. | |
leaked away to the right. Somebody applauding that. Somebody confused. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Has gone down into the flat of the bunker, otherwise it could be | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
tricky. I hope this replay goes all the way through to the end of her | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
follow-through. Super flexibility. Very conventional. Left arm bicep | :00:22. | :00:34. | |
barely leaving the chest. Full hip turn through impact. And then it | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
just goes on, and on, and on. Keep turning, keep turning. Almost facing | :00:42. | :00:42. | |
back towards the tee. Mo Martin just tapped hers in for a | :00:43. | :00:59. | |
birdie. Jang follows in with a little swinger there. It's another | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
birdie. So, that is 10-under for Jang, 9-under for Martin. A couple | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
of groups are pulling each other along too. This Jang and Martin | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
group and also Jutanugarn and Matthew, have both made good, good | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
starts. When both players are playing well, they really can feed | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
off each other. Yes. You maybe feel Andrew the last three pairings are | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
just beginning to get a bit of daylight between themselves and the | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
rest of the field. I think it's important when your fellow | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
competitors are pumping it out at the flags. It makes you more | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
aggressive. It worked for Stacy Lewis when she played the first two | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
rounds with Jutanugarn. She was pulled along by the quality of her | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
partner's play. Didn't go down into the bunker, Mirim Lee. Sticky stuff | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
around the green here. Got to be quite aggressive with it, otherwise | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
you can just fluff it a little. Fearful of that, zips through a | :02:05. | :02:20. | |
little bit too strongly. Hands almost in the metal of the | :02:21. | :02:35. | |
shaft. The blue arrows go out on the fourth | :02:36. | :02:59. | |
to inKate the finishing positions of the tee shot of this penultimate | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
pair. Opposite sides. Catriona down the | :03:02. | :03:26. | |
right side to Jutanugarn. The rough is about two-and-a-half inches down. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Just nestled down. The pin is on the right of the green. | :03:31. | :03:54. | |
This is another thing where power is very handy, digging it out of the | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
rotten lie. If she goes at the flag she's at risk. She has to go to the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
right of the flag by four or five, six yards, go deeper and the ball | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
will get taken into the cut. A bit unlucky there on the second | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
bounce. Scampered on and gave it a bit more energy to take it through | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
the hollow. As she dug that out extraordinarily well. That is one of | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
the great benefits of power. When you get in trouble, you can generate | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
that strength coming through the rough. It was a nasty lie, I have to | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
say. Where it finished, it was a reasonably easy shot and well | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
recovered. Matthew in the perfect spot, 125. It's like a basin the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
left hand side and you are trying to hit the plug hole and it's possible | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
you could run it in there. If you get it in the hollow, there's every | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
chance it will run very tight to the flag. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
If you are a betting person, you might think you could end up with a | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
two. It's one of those flags where someone's ball could get gobbled up. | :05:14. | :05:25. | |
APPLAUSE. Just about like that. Took a bit of | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
grab on the second bounce, enough to bring it to a halt. Wonderful shot | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
from Catriona Matthew. We saw Mo Martin very nearly holing it, very | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
pin-friendly position there. Back in the final group. | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
A double breaker there for Feng. Coming up short. We have seen that a | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
few times. She's not the most aggressive of putters. Mo Martin is | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
just about as accurate off the tee as you will find. Certainly not a | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
long hitter, but finds the fairway, the high 80%s. It's not a long par-4 | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
this one. And she misses the fairway. | :06:19. | :06:34. | |
Extraordinary head cover. Mo Martin is hiding behind it. Big question | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
being asked of Mirim Lee here. Remember her chip around this much | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
past out of the heavy rough. No. So she's going to drop back there 2010 | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
under. Two behind Jutanugarn. -- to10 under. Making a habit of low | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
rounds in the Majors. She says her goal is to keep that consistency | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
going through all of the rounds. Ha Na Jang. Mo Martin going with the | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
drive. Jang with a threewood. Same result down the same line into | :07:20. | :07:36. | |
the first cult of rough. Always happy. This for par. That was a | :07:37. | :07:53. | |
little sharp, a little jabby. Back of the 15th green at Wentworth | :07:54. | :08:14. | |
this, has that feel to it, this shape of green. The rest of the | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
green is horrifically tricky. Someone must have had a bad night | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
before making this one. If you can leave yourself 18-20 foot, this is | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
about as easy as you can get, not much break and fairly level too. | :08:30. | :08:43. | |
She'll collect her par and we'll go to Stacy Lewis. | :08:44. | :09:02. | |
She's trying to annex a number of birdies, next Saturday she'll be | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
walking down the aisle, leaving mum to plan all the details of the | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
wedding. As it should be. It will be | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
meticulous. Mirim Lee the driver on the fourth. Not been a great start | :09:24. | :09:35. | |
to this round now. But it has been a great start for Matthew. Can it be | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
even better? She's deadly with that putter! Holed her fair share | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
yesterday. She's going to gather up all the home support. Her third | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
birdie in the opening four holes. She joins Jutanugarn at the lead at | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
12-under. There is confirmation of that. | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
Catriona, named Captain for the 2017 Solheim cup in Iowa next year. Still | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
not decided whether she's going to play, sweltion be a vice captain. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
It's possible the way things are going and for 21 years as a | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
professional in America and indeed a few years before that on the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
European Tour, she's one of our greatest golfing exports, is | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
Catriona. Charley Hull after that seven triple at the first, remains | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
at 2-under but some way off the pace now,n the shots behind our | :10:43. | :10:43. | |
co-leaders. Matthew and Jutanugarn. Nice to see a home player doing so | :10:44. | :10:55. | |
well. The ball nestled down a little here. | :10:56. | :11:31. | |
Did she get it a trifle heavy. It was a great line, but very difficult | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
to control coming out of that lie. Martin second shot to the fifth. | :11:34. | :11:53. | |
Bunker in the way. Firm green. Out of light. | :11:54. | :12:07. | |
Just landed on the edge of the green, stopped it a bit. Good break | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
there. Back down to the tee. 3wood is that? | :12:11. | :12:37. | |
You have got to hit it 230 yards otherwise you have to shape it | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
around the corner. Two big beech trees the turn of the dog-leg and if | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
you hit it past, the ball gets kicked to the right. It's a ball to | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
play to the corner of the dog-leg then pitch down the hill. | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
Little anxious going to the right. Oh, well right. Tricky. That's a | :13:00. | :13:12. | |
tricky one. Missed the bunker. Hung on the slope. She's going to be | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
standing miles below the ball. It's going to be very awkward. Just | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
listen to the sound of this ball. It echoes about in the trees. This is | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
what you call giving it a wollop. -- wallop. She didn't like it. Gone | :13:25. | :13:36. | |
the other side? Got away with it. This is looking down to the fourth, | :13:37. | :14:04. | |
the final group. Each player dropping a shot at the last. | :14:05. | :14:05. | |
Smarting a little bit. Good birdie chance here today with | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
the pin position in the basin. Second to the fourth. Feng. | :14:17. | :14:29. | |
I love the way she plays, Peter. I just really enjoy watching her. Yes. | :14:30. | :14:46. | |
Yes. Delicate one for Ha Na Jang. Played that very well. Very well | :14:47. | :15:00. | |
indeed. Mirim Lee at the fourth. 133 yards to the flag. | :15:01. | :15:24. | |
This is Martin for her birdie on five. Mo spent five years on the | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
secondary Tour in the States before graduating to the LPGA in 2012. Of | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
course, she burst into our consciousness with her win in this | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
Championship two years ago. Only missed three greens in her | :15:39. | :15:57. | |
opening two rounds. One of the most accurate players on the Tour. | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
Would you say the women's Tour, generally speaking, America and | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Europe, the Far East, is it generally in pretty good shape, | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Maureen? It could be in a lot better shape in Europe, Peter. We need a | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
lot more tournaments for the players. Obviously, the LPGA's | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
reasonably successful, the Korean Tour is very successful. Ha Na Jang | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
here won the Korean money list in 2013. | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
Did that rather a lot. And then she went over to the States in 2015 and, | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
as you have heard already so far, she's had two wins in America this | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
year, so the Korean Tour's extremely strong, tremendous breeding ground | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
for getting these players going. I would like to see more field Tours | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
in Europe. I just hope more sponsors would realise it would be worth it. | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
I hadn't understood why more sponsors hadn't come forward. I was | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
honoured to be the first President when it was set up and I thought it | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
would be a pushover, lots of people that make things that women use, | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
make-up, shoes, clothes, glamour, whatever reason though, they didn't | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
come, whether they were not attracted to it, I don't know. The | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
golf courses were there, not at that level, but where we used to play, | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
40-50 odd years ago, plenty of those. That was a bit short. In she | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
went. That's her style. As long as she keeps her youed by still, on she | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
goes -- her body still. On she goes. The players are all very engaging. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
That's a selling point. I think I maybe was even playing on the Tour | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
when you were the President all those years ago. It was a | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
troublesome time. Now, this isn't, well actually it's | :18:05. | :18:17. | |
not a deep edge, it's not as bad as it might have been. It's not bad. | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
The best she can do is sort of punch it to the front left of the green. | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
It is awkward. It's lower down than it looked. Scratches it out. Play it | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
gently, push it to the front of the green and it will come off the bank. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Not a bad result. That was very gad. Her body was completely vertical | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
when she was standing to the ball. Terribly easy to smother that way, | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
way left. Just played it with her hands and arms. That's all right. A | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
long time since she's had a chip. Well, they make you fat, you know! | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Perfect spot. Little gathering area. APPLAUSE. | :19:03. | :19:14. | |
Always a bit of luck. People say, no, no, they controlled the spin, | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
which is a worn out expression, but sometimes it works out OK and | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
sometimes it doesn't. Mirim Lee. 170-yard par-3 for Lexi Thompson. | :19:23. | :20:00. | |
Didn't look much more than a 7-iron she was hitting there. Nice. | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
Back to the fourth. Feng's birdie attempt. | :20:12. | :20:29. | |
Stacy Lewis for a birdie. Nice strike. What a result. You could see | :20:30. | :21:01. | |
that right from the word go. Her body still went back about nine, ten | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
inches and ten inches through the ball. Second birdie of the round. | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
Slightly crusty line, ball sitting not too badly. Chipping up the hill. | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
Well, she's certainly got her eye in. Half an inch left and that would | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
have been a good backstop. Just catches the edge of the hole and the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
flag. Dead centre and it might have even gone in, I suppose. We shall | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
never know. Due to move in to her new home in | :21:41. | :22:10. | |
Berwick on Tuesday. Catriona says they are moving in, but then they | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
have to go to Rio by 12th August. Friends of mine are moving tomorrow | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
only about half a mile. It's dramatic. You would have thought | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
they were going to Tibet. The Matthews are moving back into their | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
original house after renovating. Nice town, North Berwick. | :22:34. | :22:55. | |
Interesting putter. Half-and-half grip and shaft. | :22:56. | :23:08. | |
Regulation kit now Ken. Has she done it? She has. She's a very good | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
looking player, Ken, I must say. A very talented lass, isn't she? Oh, | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
my goodness, it's all there. Nice touch, confident, 20 years of age. | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Very, very impressive. Nice atmosphere around women's golf. | :23:26. | :23:42. | |
The majority are jolly and happy and talk to the caddy and smile. An | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
important one here. Come on Catriona, you can do it. Yes, you | :23:49. | :23:49. | |
can. Steady as a rock. That was a good escape there. Could | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
have been one of those that just slip away, but she got a good par. | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
Yes, after where her too shot finished, it was very good. | :24:07. | :24:07. | |
Thompson. Just not quite coming off the blade | :24:08. | :24:34. | |
with conviction. Hello! You don't see many of these old boys about. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
They're lovely. One of the delights of coming to the countryside. There | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
was a tiny dear this morning. They came from China originally. | :24:49. | :25:06. | |
Tricky for Mo Martin. Four different lengths of grass. Going to airmail | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
this one. On the edge? Yes. I don't know why they take such a | :25:14. | :25:27. | |
big swing. Since Mickelson started, then Tiger Woods, it's a big swing, | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
lot of loft, hit it hard up in the air and really there's no need to do | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
that all the time. There are other types of shot you can play. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Everybody does it know. -- does it now. A couple of testing second | :25:40. | :25:51. | |
shots coming up for this last group. Feng might be able to sneak this | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
past without having to move it too much from left-to-right. Odds on | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
this going through the green really isn't it, if it goes over the | :26:01. | :26:14. | |
bunker. That looks like a tatty old fairway. | :26:15. | :26:26. | |
Scampering down that slope, just as you foretold. That's not bad. | :26:27. | :26:42. | |
Stopped reasonably well. Back to the fifth. After that fluffed pitch on | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
the edge of the green, back to the fifth. | :26:52. | :27:03. | |
Beautifully threw the ball there. The play, have to carry the ball | :27:04. | :27:21. | |
almost like a false front and then severely downhill. She got a great | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
bit of check on that. Precision strike. One of your lone trees left | :27:25. | :27:35. | |
behind there, Maureen, stood like a sentinel. Gives it a bit of rough. | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
Yes, now this is the par-3. Mo Martin's par putt. She was the one | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
who actually just roughed the chip a bit. Ha Na Jang's strolled hers in, | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
pretty much stone dead for her par. This is a par saver for Martin, but | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
not to be. You can see Ha Na Jang's marker | :27:55. | :28:14. | |
there. Good par-3s here, Peter? Yes, nice, biggish greens. They all run | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
at everything so slightly different angles so that the breezes that | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
funnel down the trees play a little bit of havoc, testing you all the | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
time. Similar yardages but different clubs. That's a drop shot. | :28:30. | :28:40. | |
The course is more difficult today. The number of greens and the flags | :28:41. | :28:53. | |
have been put in the corners, making it awkward to get close. Jang now, | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
for her three to stay 10-under. This sixth hole is playing 156 yards | :28:57. | :29:21. | |
today. That is a very good view of it. Looking down at Catriona Matthew | :29:22. | :29:31. | |
and Ariya Jutanugarn. You will notice most people tee their ball up | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
on the left hand side of the tee blocks. There is a tree that | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
overhangs, giving you a bit of an angle to get past. | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
156. 9 tiern probably. Long chip, punchy chip forward -- 9-iron | :29:46. | :30:00. | |
probably. Dribbled away a bit. Nicely struck. One of these cheeky | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
pins. It's that branch of the pine tree hanging over Augusta style that | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
makes this awkward. Can't quite get it high enough to guarantee to get | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
it over if you put it a fraction you'll clank into it. This is a | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
particularly dense area of the course coming up from the little | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
pathway behind this tee. I lost Clive Clarke in the | :30:29. | :30:42. | |
rhododendrons, and the bushes. He finally came out. Especially where | :30:43. | :30:55. | |
the flag is cut today. You can stand outside, no penalty and that was a | :30:56. | :31:04. | |
sweet shot. Very sweet shot. If you think back to Thursday morning after | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
eight holes, Matthew was 2-over par. She is just a nice player. Sounds | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
daft to say. Mirim Lee for a birdie at the 5th. She tickles it down the | :31:19. | :31:29. | |
hill and it's there. It fascinates me, you see the different characters | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
and not only at this level, but golf club level. Someone who's always in | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
a rush, someone who is bit steady. Lexi Thompson. One of my favourite | :31:39. | :31:51. | |
holes, playing from high up in the hill down to a Green set below her. | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
Beautifully framed by the pines and the trees and the bracken. It is a | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
wet corner of the cause, so you tend to take big divots down there. The | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
seniors are here in the first week of September. Travis Perkins stage | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
an event here. In it goes, well done. If you've not been to Woburn, | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
and you want a good four days out, the first few days is on the Dukes | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
course. The first of the three that was put together. Trouble for | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
Charley Hull. Doing her best to recover from a horrific start. | :32:32. | :32:38. | |
Nicely played. Great skill showcased. Awkward stance, kept her | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
balance very well. Slid the club into the sand, under the ball. Stacy | :32:45. | :32:55. | |
Lewis at the 7th par-5. Can she get up and out and close? She might do | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
if it stops. Scampers on. Covers quite a big acreage. The | :33:03. | :33:26. | |
holes aren't that far apart, but because of the trees there is good | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
separation. You hardly see anyone else when you are on the course. But | :33:31. | :33:40. | |
they are only 50, 60, 70 yards away. All these people are in with a | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
chance if they just had a birdie run going and the final 18 tomorrow. | :33:45. | :33:56. | |
Stacy Lewis, having a serious look at the hole, Peter. Nice to see the | :33:57. | :34:04. | |
crowds, seeing them all lined up along here. Woburn is such a good | :34:05. | :34:17. | |
location, a couple of miles of junction 13 of the M1. | :34:18. | :34:26. | |
Alex Hayes old watering ground. I still miss the old rascal. This has | :34:27. | :34:36. | |
got a little left to right. As it gets to the Cup, it may come the | :34:37. | :34:38. | |
other. The early walk, indicates she knew | :34:39. | :34:56. | |
she hadn't given it enough. She's doing very well, Maureen. The birdie | :34:57. | :35:03. | |
and no drop shots. She looks as though she is comfortable. This is | :35:04. | :35:12. | |
Mel Reed. Not having such a happy day today. 3-over. This is the 77. | :35:13. | :35:24. | |
Yes. She had a run of three bogeys in the middle of the front line, | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
another couple on the back and not a birdie to be seen. Can Matthew Read | :35:31. | :35:45. | |
this one? Not far away. Just tickles across. But a comfortable three. No | :35:46. | :35:54. | |
sweat. Another hole safely negotiated. | :35:55. | :36:08. | |
Another birdie opportunity to Stacy Lewis. This is the par-5 with the | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
split fairway. Good recovery to there. Not enough. | :36:16. | :36:32. | |
8-under. Just treading water. Back to the sixth. Teeing up on the far | :36:33. | :36:53. | |
left. Not that bad. Seeking perfection, perfect length. Ten | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
yards. Ten yards drag. Not the end of the world. | :37:00. | :37:16. | |
Back to Shanshan Feng. Had a very decorated amateur career. Nine wins | :37:17. | :37:25. | |
in China. Her assessment of her own game is, she always hits well from | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
the tee to the green and then it just depends on how she putts. Looks | :37:30. | :37:40. | |
very calculated. It doesn't stop. It might have done, but it didn't. 25 | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
yards past. Faced with a tricky chip. Up to the flag. This will be a | :37:46. | :37:58. | |
great up-and-down from the bulk of the C if she can steer this one | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
home. Well done. Rattled in. She is on the march trying to peel back | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
those shots she dropped on the first. She's only had one birdie. | :38:12. | :38:19. | |
Currently 3-under, 2-over for today's round. Lexi Thompson for a | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
birdie at the 9th. Needs to turn left. No. Never read it properly. | :38:26. | :38:40. | |
Par-5. Interesting one, Ken. The split fairway? Most players go down | :38:41. | :38:57. | |
the right because it is a bit wider. It has worked out perfectly. Grand | :38:58. | :39:04. | |
old Pines standing. The horseshoe affect in the woods. Dipped down in | :39:05. | :39:14. | |
front of the green. 507, it is just about in range if you get a good one | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
away. The breeze, what bit there is, is slightly helping for the elevated | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
tee. You don't want to go too far down the right-hand side, you can | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
run over the top of the hill into the rough. Of the top off the tee | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
again. She sweeps that drive away and it is an absolute belter. | :39:37. | :39:49. | |
Unlucky. Caught a wet spot. Quick check on the leaderboard. Jutanugarn | :39:50. | :39:59. | |
and Matthew setting the rounds. Mirim Lee, who has led this | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
Championship after a sparkling opening round of 62, a Championship | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
equalling record round. She has slipped two behind. There is Leona | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
Maguire of Ireland, one of the few amateurs who will be playing at the | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
Rio Olympics. She will be accompanying Stephanie Meadow 4-team | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
Ireland. She is going well in the chase for the leading amateur here. | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
Bronte Lord of England, one of the other amateurs in this field. She | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
started bogey, bogey, so she has a bit of work to do. Charley Hull, | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
having picked up a shot at the 7th, but still in arrears. 2-over in her | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
round today. It was a shuddering halt to proceedings on the first | :40:49. | :40:58. | |
after a triple bogey. Nice little pitch up the hill. Huge divot. | :40:59. | :41:16. | |
That's the way you do it! A real roller-coaster of a putt for Feng | :41:17. | :41:29. | |
here. Very rolling greens, lots of switchbacks, humps and hollows. The | :41:30. | :41:37. | |
greens are quite big. At the 7th, she has hit two very good shots onto | :41:38. | :41:45. | |
the screen. Going down into a slight hollow, up the other side. Not 1 | :41:46. | :41:47. | |
million miles away. The eighth playing 170 yards today. | :41:48. | :42:12. | |
Tucked down the left-hand side. It is a great shot. Getting better all | :42:13. | :42:26. | |
the time. Back to the sixth. Quite a long birdie putt. Again, up, out of | :42:27. | :42:34. | |
the slight hollow. Up the hill, over the top. Dead weight. | :42:35. | :42:51. | |
Up on the seventh. Ha-Na Jang. Let's see how quickly she keeps after the | :42:52. | :43:12. | |
ball. She followed the ball with her eyes, very quickly. And then it was | :43:13. | :43:22. | |
time for tea. That's what you call relaxed. Pina Colorado? No, later, | :43:23. | :43:35. | |
maybe. Found somebody's chair, probably one of the stewards. | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
Wonderful amount of volunteers who always turn up here. It is a good | :43:41. | :43:47. | |
way to see the goal. Mo Martin, just taking a little bit more time after | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
this after seeing Ha-Na Jang slide her birdie attempt pass the hole. | :43:54. | :44:06. | |
Well done. As he mentioned, she is very much favouring the short | :44:07. | :44:23. | |
backswing, Poppy, Ratty style. Thank has this far par. She needs to aim | :44:24. | :44:33. | |
at this at the right edge. No. Not a bad tee shot. Ran through the back | :44:34. | :44:41. | |
of the green, three from the edge. Shot dropped. | :44:42. | :44:57. | |
Up to the next par-3. Stacy Lewis. Beautiful tee shot. But not managing | :44:58. | :45:10. | |
to convert. Hasn't won an individual title for a couple of years. We just | :45:11. | :45:16. | |
look and see the choices made by the players in this penultimate group. | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
This is Jutanugarn. Most players only go down the right if they | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
believe they can make the carry in two. Mackie went down that way but | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
she got no run. I think she was lucky. If she had had a big bounce | :45:33. | :45:41. | |
she would have toppled over the end. She also had a bit of mud on the | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
ball. But her playing partner, 232 the front of the green. Just about | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
capable of making it. It sounded all right. | :45:54. | :46:05. | |
She really uses that iron well. Gives it a good crack. 25 short of | :46:06. | :46:16. | |
the hole. Down the hill at the 9th for Hull. | :46:17. | :46:28. | |
It did go, it obeyed the command. Good shot. Started with a seven. | :46:29. | :46:45. | |
Scrappy, silly seven. Thompson at the 10th. Interesting style. Lot of | :46:46. | :46:53. | |
body action. Dead online. Hard to believe she is still only 21 years | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
of age, Maureen, she seems to have been around for so long. I think I | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
saw her on the European Tour when she was 15. You get used to them | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
being around and then after ages, you discover they are only just 21 | :47:10. | :47:11. | |
and 22. Interesting, Matthew has played into | :47:12. | :47:28. | |
the valley. Downslope of a lie. Very tricky to get the ball on side. She | :47:29. | :47:37. | |
is very methodical, plays the game like chess. Bernhard Langer, like. | :47:38. | :47:50. | |
Linger longer with Langer. That's good, too. She plots her way around | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
the course, very tidy and needs. -- meet. Charley Hull for a birdie on | :47:58. | :48:06. | |
the ninth. This would get her out in 37. It is drifting off. | :48:07. | :48:21. | |
Mo Martin. One of those rescued clubs. Bigger club than a rescue | :48:22. | :48:38. | |
club, but she is online and has found the target. Interesting how | :48:39. | :48:46. | |
clubs have changed over the years, Maureen. We will never return to the | :48:47. | :48:56. | |
wooden headed clubs, I am convinced. Mirim Lee. Left to right. I think | :48:57. | :49:09. | |
left. She hasn't. She is fortunate to get a bit of stop on it. She's | :49:10. | :49:17. | |
not very far from the end. She took a bit of a risk, but that is a damp | :49:18. | :49:31. | |
area down there. She chuckles away. Just trying to turn this 1-over into | :49:32. | :49:38. | |
the flag on the left-hand side. Good shot. Many more punchy players now. | :49:39. | :49:50. | |
I remember Bunty Stevens, an old friend of mine at Birkdale years | :49:51. | :49:59. | |
ago. She had a wide, low swing. Taps it in. Well done Charley Hull. Pull | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
yourself together on the back nine. Has she got a good lie in the | :50:04. | :50:26. | |
bunker, Ken? Yes, about 40 yards and a little bit of a hollow to get the | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
ball through. This is very awkward. You can try to be too cute and put | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
it over the back. Pretty good. She managed to get it up and quickly and | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
with a bit of run out on it. Without hitting it seemingly all that hard. | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
It was very well controlled. She knows what she's about, this lasts. | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
She really does. Thompson... Three birdies already | :50:51. | :51:17. | |
today. Go on. When she gets in full flow, she really is the most | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
wonderful golfer to watch. Ranked number four in the world now. | :51:23. | :51:31. | |
Already got a major under her belt. She's had a few putts like that | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
today, that have stopped right on the edge. Back to the penultimate | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
game. Interesting how she doesn't put the | :51:43. | :51:57. | |
ball down on the green until later on in the peas. Does all the | :51:58. | :52:04. | |
preparation. He points there, just a little routine. Just over those | :52:05. | :52:13. | |
little blades of grass. Ball down. Doesn't take long when she's over | :52:14. | :52:20. | |
it, Ken. No, she has decided, just about half an inch outside the left, | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
which is just outside that, little up the hill. For birdie. Couple of | :52:25. | :52:34. | |
looks. Taps it on its way. The know. Sliding all the way. That might help | :52:35. | :52:50. | |
Matthew's putt, the reading of, Ken? From this angle it is a bit left to | :52:51. | :52:57. | |
right. The pace is slower than you think and if you haven't got enough | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
on it, it will dive to the right. Matty's putting so far today has | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
been absolutely mustered. She looks absolutely comfortable, she has one | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
of those fat grip that is, by the looks of it. It is a classic setup | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
routine, comes up from behind, couple of practice strokes. She does | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
it the old-fashioned way. Yes, it is just simple. It stayed left, would | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
you believe it. Would you believe it? I thought that was odds-on. Safe | :53:31. | :53:56. | |
part. -- par. Long putt from Mo Martin here at eight. | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
Very nice. Very nice. It is a real global game, the women's game and | :54:06. | :54:16. | |
the last 16 players off the tee today, there were ten nationalities | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
represented. One of them from the United States, Stacy Lewis. Steady. | :54:22. | :54:30. | |
It is a beauty. Mirim Lee has gone down the right. | :54:31. | :54:47. | |
Looks and narrow target, through that gap on the left. And it looks a | :54:48. | :54:56. | |
long way away. Can she carry the bunker? She can. One good hop | :54:57. | :55:05. | |
forward, it could have been very close. Two big hits. | :55:06. | :55:16. | |
Now -- Ha Na Jang's birdie attempt. I have been doing a bit of a survey | :55:17. | :55:32. | |
this week, Peter. I am looking at putting grips, as in how the players | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
put their hands on the part. We're talking about right-handed players, | :55:38. | :55:45. | |
50% have left below right, and 50% is more conventional. If you saw | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
something that strayed from the Orthodox, you immediately thought | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
they had a problem. Yes, Cross handed and then came the long | :55:55. | :56:04. | |
putter. Amber Marchbank grip, and Bernhard Langer was very successful | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
with it for a time, before he went to the long putter. It is a game | :56:09. | :56:17. | |
within a game. Those tiddlers, it is so annoying when you miss these. She | :56:18. | :56:18. | |
doesn't. Pretty tight at the top. All the way | :56:19. | :56:43. | |
down, a lot of players from 6-under, shooting 67. | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
Parfrey the eighth, on the left-hand side. -- par-5. | :56:55. | :57:13. | |
There is the gallant colonel. His last tournament. We will see more of | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
him over the last 24 hours, I am sure. They have provided so much | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
help for us over the years, taking leave from their army duties to come | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
and help but golf tournaments. She has lined this up. Just watch the | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
rhythm. Sitting up for a little draw, little bits of right-to-left | :57:40. | :57:49. | |
on it. How is it looking, Ken? If the distance is right, it is looking | :57:50. | :57:59. | |
crushed E. The best round for this third round so far is still from | :58:00. | :58:15. | |
Chun, from South Korea. Nicole Broch Larsen is 8-under. Leona Maguire is | :58:16. | :58:24. | |
7-under. Charley fires one in here. Marching down the back nine. She | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
could do with coming home in 32. That would boost her morale. She had | :58:32. | :58:39. | |
a nice run of birdies yesterday on the back nine, so it is well within | :58:40. | :58:47. | |
her capability. Not seeing many putts hold, Maureen. Considering the | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
greens are magnificent. The whole courses. Beautifully done and | :58:53. | :58:58. | |
congratulations to all concerned. Three courses here and they are all | :58:59. | :59:02. | |
immaculate and all slightly different. This is going to be a | :59:03. | :59:16. | |
long, eagle putt. You are right Peter, at how unlucky she was at the | :59:17. | :59:20. | |
shot, but she played in with a 3-wood. There is moisture in that | :59:21. | :59:30. | |
side, the water drains down there. But the ball almost went backwards. | :59:31. | :59:38. | |
Firm bounce, she would have been up within 12 feet of the hole or so. It | :59:39. | :59:45. | |
will be good going if she gets round in two. Pace and aligned, the old | :59:46. | :59:53. | |
Crown Green Bowling. Roll it up to the jack. Down the little hollow, up | :59:54. | :00:00. | |
the other side. Perfect length. Beautiful length. | :00:01. | :00:24. | |
Just sweeping across a Birds Eye view to the eighth. | :00:25. | :00:37. | |
A little minivalley of sin there Ken, that she's walking up. Yes, | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
nine times out of ten it would have gone down the slope which would have | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
made it a little trickier. It's going to be a chip and run. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
A few years ago, they would have played with anything from a 4-iron | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
to 7-iron, now I wouldn't be surprised if we see one of the most | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
lofted clubs. Look at the loft on this. Hands forward, got to hit it | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
just right. Very easy to get it to check and come up short. She's done | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
it beautifully. Can't complain about that! I think she knows what she's | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
doing. Leave the girl alone! Tidy card! Going well. A two-shot | :01:31. | :01:47. | |
lead now over Matthew. Let's have another look at that, Peter. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
Beautifully played. I suppose the result is the same as... Oh, | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
beautifully touched. I bet Catriona is mumbling to | :01:59. | :02:21. | |
herself there, fancy her holing that. She's not far away either. A | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
little bit more, but that's a nice three. | :02:26. | :02:51. | |
You tend to get a hanging lie here at the ninth for your second. This | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
one doesn't look too bad. There's one of the big valleys. There are | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
several of them that run through the course and until we've cut away | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
through the roads and things, we didn't know they were there, the | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Ferns and the rhododendrons, but it gives the course a lot of character. | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
Now, will the charge begin here? For Charley? No. | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
Just has to guard against getting frustrated. She's hitting a lot of | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
good shots, beginning to give herself the chances. Patience is the | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
key, sometimes you can't force things too much. | :03:41. | :04:13. | |
She's a player who can really eat up the par-5s, so she's left herself a | :04:14. | :04:46. | |
decent chance there. Reached the 9th hole. 14-under. Par-4 straightaway. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Massively wide fairway that runs away from you. Iron off the tee | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
again. My word, she gives it a good crack. Gone off like a tracer | :05:03. | :05:14. | |
bullet. Like one of Davis Love's. He could do it. So could Greg Norman. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
If you run through the fairway on the right, it's not too bad. Ideally | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
you want to be down the right side, about 250 yards out. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Catriona with a little lofted wood. Metal, wetle, kettle, whatever it | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
is, and she binges it away, hits it straight off the top of the tee | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
every time. That bounds away, look at that! That could be awkward down | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
there. Luck of the draw. Mirim Lee's tee shot like a tracer | :05:50. | :06:19. | |
bullet there, nicely in off the curb. Excellent. | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
Jutanugarn, the 20-year-old from Bangkok now beginning to take a bit | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
of a group. A two-shot lead now. The fireworks, as we saw, the chip-in at | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the eighth, it's all going this young lady's way. Catriona Matthew | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
giving chase at 46 years of age. Mirim Lee and Ha Na Jang also very | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
much in touch. So up on the green, Mo Martin. | :06:50. | :07:05. | |
Interested by that choice off the tee for Catriona Matthew there. It | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
clearly was a choice that bounded through the fairway and down the | :07:11. | :07:11. | |
slope. Looking back from the green, you can | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
see where Catriona Matthew will be down that slope there. It's not too | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
bad there. Got that wrong. 54 players are under | :07:23. | :07:47. | |
par here. We have taken this course apart and again, they have been | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
playing at a modest length. Slightly splayed elbows in the style | :07:50. | :08:09. | |
of Lexi. We judge her by high standards. She plays very well from | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
putt to green. Ha Na Jang. A quick one but not quite that pacy. | :08:13. | :08:30. | |
Just the one birdie today for Jang. Seven yards on. She was blocked out | :08:31. | :09:00. | |
there, just attacking around the bunker, as you can see, keeping it | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
under the trees. Ha Na Jang and Mo Martin. I think | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
it's Martin first. Ariya Jutanugarn waiting for her to | :09:11. | :09:41. | |
get into her met Tative pose. -- meditative pose. She did some work | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
about relaxing herself so she's taken the lessons to heart. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Jutanugarn lighting a scented candle down the fairway. | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
Jutanugarn's routine. Oosthuizen when he won the Open at St Andrews | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
looked at the red dot on his glove. Players conjure up all kinds of | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
things to get themselves into the zone. Nice little trigger to start | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
and every routine will be the same. Ha Na Jang comes forward. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Looks at the hole. Spread the feet a little wider. | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
And it works. Good save after a cautious first putt. One birdie, all | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
the rest pars for Ha Na Jang on the front nine. Interesting Maureen, | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
Jutanugarn and Matthews crashed one through? I think that might have | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
been the case because the tee shot number seven dug its heels in. Took | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
a mighty bounce. This couldn't be placed in a better spot, 170 yards. | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
Not a pin to coy with ideally between the TV tower and the flag | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
and the slope. Very good shot perfect for distance. | :11:20. | :11:37. | |
I couldnd work out what she was doing off the tee. It got a big | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
shoot forward. It went crashing through the fairway a long way down | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
there. It really didn't shoot forward. It's not too bad. Only got | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
135. Again, she's got to aim a little left, further right to the | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
shallow of the green. This is not a time to be terribly bold. As a | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
tactician, there's nothing better. This is a hanging line. | :12:04. | :12:18. | |
She did very well there. Set it off, just a bite on the TV tower and not | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
a shot to take any liberties with. Time to press the go button and | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
there's a time to just be a little bit more conservative. | :12:32. | :12:51. | |
Stacy Lewis had to put one low just off to the right and a little chip | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
is very well played indeed. Lovely shot by Lewis. | :12:59. | :13:12. | |
Unlucky. Never easy to sleep on the lead. She's done that for a couple | :13:13. | :13:31. | |
of evenings. But she's getting more accustomed to it, getting more | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
comfortable up there with people chasing her. She's two shots adrift | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
at the moment. Maguire putting together a very nice | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
round again. Just creeps over into the top ten, | :13:47. | :14:03. | |
Maguire. 4-under for her round leading the amateur standings by a | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
good few shots under Bronte Law. 3wood for Ha Na Jang. 344 yards. | :14:10. | :14:45. | |
Gives it the plum line. That's old school, that is. | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
Dangerously downhill this one, a yard past the flag. You want a steep | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
down slope. Needs a silky touch. Nicely played resolutely to the | :15:01. | :15:41. | |
left. Pretty good pace. Mirim Lee. Let's have a look at this | :15:42. | :15:54. | |
follow-through again. That one gets a shooting bounce | :15:55. | :16:11. | |
forward as well. I think that's going to hang on. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
You are landing on a downslope there. | :16:17. | :16:43. | |
Just got to cosy it down with maximum break. | :16:44. | :17:18. | |
Catriona Matthew had already been established on the LPGA Tour for a | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
couple of years when Jutanugarn was born. There aren't many more | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
experienced players in the game than Catriona mathee r yew. Laura Davies | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
and her. -- Catriona Matthew. Not many women in the gamekeep going | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
into their 40s. Maybe they've got more sense! | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
That's OK. Gets a lot of action on the ball Lexi. A lot of moving | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
parts. When we look at the super slo-mo of the others, there doesn't | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
seem to be many moving parts and Catriona knocks that in and these | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
pairing have had no drop shots between them. Treely high standard | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
of golf in this pressure situation. When did she get the nickname | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
beanie? A long time ago in east Lothian. Maguire six shots clear of | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
Bronte Law in the amateur case. Tee shots of Mirim Lee and Shanshan | :18:27. | :18:52. | |
Feng going through. You can see the ball there right at the end of the | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
fairway. Mirim Lee slightly hanging lie. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
A shot through the valley up towards the green. | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
A lot of players on the left hand side. Helen's popped in to see us | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
again. Hello. Hello. What Swedish words are we going to learn today? ! | :19:21. | :19:32. | |
Mo Martin on the tenth hole, one of the easier holes on the golf course. | :19:33. | :19:50. | |
Let us see if Maguire can finish out here on the hole. Beautifully done. | :19:51. | :20:03. | |
A very, very good round from Lee-Anne Maguire, a 68. Goodness, | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
that was a violent high five. -- Leona Maguire. Good that it happened | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
afterwards so there was no injury. That was her twin sister Lisa on the | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
bag. Ha Na Jang. Slightly over club. Still on the | :20:24. | :20:41. | |
green but sure she's not too happy about that one. Jutanugarn on the | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
tee. A low bulleted drilling one on the | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
tenth. It could park itself behind the tree. May just be OK. You can be | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
well on this fairway and right behind a tree up this left side. | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
420 yards. Pin tucked over the left bunker so you really must come off | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
the fairway. A bit of a humdinger of a flag. | :21:22. | :21:33. | |
We are enjoying the contrast between these two playing their games. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Jutanugarn hits it so long, hitting irons off the tee most of the time. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Side by side and sharing a chat. I was having lunch with Catriona today | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
and she was saying she felt very, very comfortable with her game and | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
she was super happy about her performance yesterday and she said | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
she'd played a lot with Ariya in the States and they're both very calm | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
and collected players and are playing very well. They're very good | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
for each other out there. Lexi Thompson, another birdie chance. | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
Never looks quite comfortable on the greens. She comes up like she wants | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
to guide it rather than letting the putt hit the ball and stay online. | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
Stacy Lewis on the 11th, par-5. Getting a little too much on that | :22:30. | :23:00. | |
one. Over and up, some of the toughest putts I think, because you | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
have to get over the hill and it gets away from her. | :23:05. | :23:20. | |
Very impressive, six shots clear of Bronte Law. | :23:21. | :23:55. | |
Mo hasn't really found the pace really either. You would think that | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
she, her bread and butter is really her short game and we were saying | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
before that she's, even though she's won the British Open she's not fund | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
herself up on the leaderboard, and it's a different feeling when you | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
get up there and have a chance to win. We have been talking about that | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
round Leona Maguire. She leads the amateur race by a distance now. | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
Interesting to get her thoughts talking to Hazel. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
Andrew was just saying six shots clear of Bronte Law in the chase, | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
give us your reaction to the 68, there was a wee fist bump there, | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
enjoy it? It was a great day out there today, I enjoyed every minute | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
of it, gave myself a lot of chances and took them. Tell us how positive | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
this situation is because you have the world number two, Bronte | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
yourself are three, and the world number four is going for it too this | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
weekend. We are seeing more and more amateurs right up at the top | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
Echelons of professional events these days? Yes, absolutely. Amateur | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
golfers are as strong as they have ever been. Bronte is obviously a | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
friend of mine. It's great to see all the amateurs doing well. I'm | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
interested to know your ambitions this weekend, are you out to win | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
this title? We'll see how it goes tomorrow. I'll try to make as many | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
birdies as I can and see what happens. Like you, with so many | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
others going to Rio, you are one of the few amateurs in this | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
professional field. Thame us about your prospects and what you are most | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
looking forward to? I can't wait for Rio, it will be a dream come true | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
for me to represent Ireland on that stage. I've watched the Olympics | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
enough times, usually on the TV, so it will be great to be part of it | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
this year. In the village, we'll get to soak up the whole atmosphere and | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
cheer on the rest of the Irish athletes out there. Well, we saw you | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
pull off almost a professional victory last year, who knows what is | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
ahead. Good luck. Thank you. Interesting the approach she's | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
taken. You think of her as an amateur, and she's older than some | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
of her colleagues. Bronte Law, three holes to go. Was going well for a | :26:24. | :26:38. | |
while. Maria Parra, 78. Maguire might be heading for the top prize | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
but might have her eyes on something else. Watching Jang for a par first. | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
Ran a little bit by. This is important to stay in the race. That | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
was not a good effort. I think going back to Leona, that is what is so | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
great, because when they come out on Tour, they win right away. We came | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
out a couple of years and wanted to know how it felt to be a | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
professional. They get to contend even as amateurs. When they become | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
professional, the step up is not that big. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
Most of the players left this out to the right a bit. Being cautious with | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
it. Miriam Lee no different. I think they think it's a lot faster than | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
it's been proven to putt today and it's hard to give it a go when it's | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
a downhill putt. Another very good iron shot from | :27:37. | :28:00. | |
Jutanugarn. Very impressive player. A lot of glies would like to play | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
like a girl when they look at her. She's got the distance. It's not | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
just the distance, she's playing with real composure as well and good | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
touch around the greens. She's an all-round good player. This is | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
another one, Catriona Matthew, that is a very well all-round good | :28:22. | :28:22. | |
player. A little bit too much. A pretty | :28:23. | :28:35. | |
decent chance on that one. So Mirim Lee to remain two behind. A | :28:36. | :28:48. | |
confident stroke. Charley Hull we've been told has had | :28:49. | :29:08. | |
a penalty drop. Not going well for her today. No, I think it was a very | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
tough start for Charley. A very good save for a bogey though. I think | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
since she's never said she's really been nervous, there's been a couple | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
of days where she felt something she's never really felt to that | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
extent, you know, being home with all her friends and family on the | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
home course. There's not a lot you can do, it has to be going its own | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
way when it comes to nerves. Jutanugarn sizing up her putt. The | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
driver is so dominant in the modern game, she decides not to take it. | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
She thinks she can hit it far enough. She could find another 20 | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
yards, goodness me. She doesn't need it. She's hitting two irons into the | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
par-5s and I think to have the driver and get herself into trouble | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
than to be leading the US Open, sorry, the British Open, with the | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
irons and 3-wood, I think she would be smarter to take the second route. | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
She wouldn't be able to take a driver here because of the distance | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
they play. She would have to take the iron most of the time anyway. | :30:23. | :30:31. | |
This is a fast putt. We saw Ha-Na Jang previously. She found the right | :30:32. | :30:41. | |
pace and she found the Cup. Another birdie. I haven't seen the sign of | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
any nerves from her today. Just going along, like a walk in the | :30:47. | :30:57. | |
park. It is a slow walk in the park. I liked the way she is playing at | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
her own pace. She is not being rushed. When she gets up to play the | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
shot, she is quick enough, but between she is at a steady rhythm. | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
It is going to be a pretty quick round. Catriona Matthew, struggling | :31:13. | :31:25. | |
to keep pace. Started off so well, three birdies in the fourth. All | :31:26. | :31:37. | |
Pars since then. I hope she stays calm and not tries to force it. It | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
is not over today. Just positions at yourself in a nice position. Here is | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
Mirim Lee. In the bunker, that is a tough shot. | :31:50. | :32:16. | |
Straight in the bunker at 230 yards. Talking about awkward shots... It is | :32:17. | :32:31. | |
a very tough shot, all uphill. But she played it beautifully. And you | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
have to hit it so much harder than you think because the ball is going | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
to go straight up. She definitely did that. Pursed lips, Stacy Lewis. | :32:39. | :32:47. | |
Always looks a bit disenchanted with life. | :32:48. | :32:58. | |
Life is good. She did smile twice yesterday. Use them all up. Shanshan | :32:59. | :33:12. | |
Feng, down the fairway. And Mirim Lee, just avoided the sand. Probably | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
would have preferred... She's going to have to stand in the bunker and | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
take one or two more clubs to get to that. The only danger that could be, | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
she will hit the grass a little bit too much, too quick. She will have | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
to be very careful to take the ball first. It was the first longer she | :33:36. | :33:53. | |
has just avoided. It is an untidy mistake. It is quite a | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
straightforward hole, the tenth. For being such an easy hole, it has | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
caused the play is quite a bit of a problem this week. | :34:05. | :34:17. | |
Much deliberation. She should come out little bit left. It is important | :34:18. | :34:25. | |
for her to stay off on the back foot here. If she moves in, she's going | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
to hit it heavy. She's going to have to play with the slope. | :34:32. | :34:56. | |
Her caddy, urging it on. When you have such an uphill lie, it is going | :34:57. | :35:07. | |
to take a lot out of it, but she got it on the green. I am sure she's | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
quite happy. Big smile, she is happy, she is on the putting | :35:13. | :35:20. | |
surface. Always happy, happy soul. Jutanugarn. See if she can give this | :35:21. | :35:28. | |
a lick with the 3-wood. That's tight. She can take a tighter line | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
here, almost creeps out onto the fairway. What a difference it is | :35:36. | :35:48. | |
with Mo Martin. This is her third shot on this par-5. She has the | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
hybrid. Little bit harder to get the ball closer to the pin when you come | :35:56. | :36:06. | |
in that low and running. She is so good with those clubs. She wears out | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
the face on those clubs, the amount of times she has two hit them. | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
Catriona Matthew, with the driver. Birdied on both days so far at this | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
par-5. I think it's easy now to start to feel like you want to force | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
it a little bit. Didn't get much bounce out of that one. That one | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
just stuck on landing. If we can get Charley to do | :36:35. | :36:54. | |
something. That's not Charley, that is Ha-Na Jang, sorry I apologise. | :36:55. | :37:08. | |
Little greedy, I thought, on that shot. She had plenty on the right | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
side to work with. Here comes Charley. She is in Swedish yellow | :37:16. | :37:24. | |
today. Yellow and blue, look at that. That is what she did for me. | :37:25. | :37:39. | |
Great shot from Charley. Lexi Thompson. Let's see if she can put a | :37:40. | :37:45. | |
positive stroke on this one. Although it is quite quick and a bit | :37:46. | :37:51. | |
of break in it. Wasn't a putt to be aggressive on. She has judged that | :37:52. | :37:53. | |
beautifully. Not long until the leaders get to | :37:54. | :38:11. | |
the 12th hole. It is a very interesting shot par-4. We centre | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
not only can, but Peter Alice to have a look at it earlier on. I am | :38:15. | :38:23. | |
with the Maestro on the 12th green. It is a tricky pin position today, | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
Peter? I wouldn't want to be putting from up there with a shaky grip. The | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
tee is back there and most players will lay up. Look where the water | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
is, we have only got three paces over to the water today. If you come | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
in with a wedge, it will be difficult to hold it. A lot of | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
players will have to play beyond the flag. They could use the contours to | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
the left. This leaves and manageable putt. It is pretty quick downhill, | :38:52. | :38:57. | |
Peter? You need a delicate touch, Kenneth. If anyone has a delicate | :38:58. | :39:07. | |
touch, it is you. You never lose it. This flag on the 12 is in a tricky | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
spot. You will have to have your wits about you. If you go fit, you | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
are risking everything. It could be dangerous. Two smiling rogues. | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
Looking at number 12. Sometimes they bump the teacup and the players will | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
have a go at this green. Sometimes that they do in the men's | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
tournaments. Charley has left it short of the pin. Chance to get to | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
three. That's how you do it when you play the 12. | :39:43. | :39:55. | |
Mo Martin hit in that wonderful, low, long fairway wood. She is now | :39:56. | :40:07. | |
considering all possible options. Yardage chart. Green Charter | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
examined. The lie of the land study, a few brass rubbing is taken. | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
Everything is taken into account. She hasn't really come into the | :40:17. | :40:31. | |
groove today, she has just been fighting to stay where she is. | :40:32. | :40:58. | |
She has got it! Worth the effort and the concentration. And the looks | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
from all sides. Mo Martin, that is a hard earned birdie from some way | :41:06. | :41:16. | |
down the fairway. She is trying to get it in two using the hybrid. | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
There is always a way it can be done. Mo Martin gets to ten. This | :41:23. | :41:34. | |
one looks pretty useful. They are dropping now. Mirim Lee moves within | :41:35. | :41:43. | |
two of Jutanugarn. It is always nice you don't drop too many shots and | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
then you start feeling more comfortable. Ha-Na Jang. Sneaks in | :41:47. | :41:55. | |
on the right side. Doesn't matter. Smile is never too far away with | :41:56. | :42:05. | |
Jang. A look at this par-5. Catriona Matthew is playing it as a full | :42:06. | :42:12. | |
three shot. Jutanugarn, even though she is in the rough, she can get | :42:13. | :42:21. | |
there. 247 yards. The ball looks as if it has been teed up for her. | :42:22. | :42:29. | |
Couldn't be in a better lie. She is looking to aim it in a gap which is | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
80 yards wide. If you go left, it goes into the bunker and if you go | :42:36. | :42:45. | |
right, it is in the hollow. Clanked it. It is in there somewhere. | :42:46. | :42:55. | |
Decisions to be taken, rules officials will be called. It is a | :42:56. | :43:06. | |
great position coming in. Look at how strong she is. She stays down so | :43:07. | :43:13. | |
well on the ball. Comes over a little bit too quick with her hands. | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
But it is really, really beautiful and effective golf swing. A lot of | :43:20. | :43:31. | |
power coming through. Go back to Mirim Lee, see if she can find the | :43:32. | :43:33. | |
right line here. Trying to sneak it a little bit on | :43:34. | :43:49. | |
the left side. Trying to gain a few yards. Leaves it a little bit out to | :43:50. | :44:01. | |
the right. Bit of cut spent on that one and it dug its heels in when it | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
landed. Matthew, third. Lovely light, good angle. -- lovely lie. | :44:09. | :44:18. | |
That's one just dug in as well. But a chance of four. It is a nice putt, | :44:19. | :44:28. | |
I bit uphill. Going to make a good run at it. | :44:29. | :44:37. | |
That is the state of affairs. Jutanugarn, really hasn't put a foot | :44:38. | :44:45. | |
wrong. Five birdies, no drop shots. Two clear. Wonderful scoring from | :44:46. | :44:54. | |
most concerned. Leona Maguire is in a very strong position. Nicole Broch | :44:55. | :45:11. | |
Larsen with a round of 70. Good ground from Jodie you it. -- good | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
round from Jodie Ewart. Someone has e-mailed in to ask what | :45:18. | :45:30. | |
brass rubbing is. They must be young. Used to go into churches and | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
put a bit of paper down over something ornate and rub away. It | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
was all the rage in the day. The times we used to have! The winter | :45:41. | :45:50. | |
hours flew by. Back to the 12th green, thankfully. | :45:51. | :46:02. | |
Thank God, Stacey has a nice run. She found the Cup. | :46:03. | :46:28. | |
Helen is leaving. Thank you very much, Helen. Back to Jutanugarn. The | :46:29. | :46:40. | |
sign has been moved. Maureen is back in and Peter Alice is back here and | :46:41. | :46:46. | |
Ken Brown is out watching this one. If she gets clever and gets it | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
wrong, she could run up half a dozen. She has got to play the | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
percentages. About five yards to land the ball on. Be sensible. Play | :46:56. | :47:06. | |
five, Ken? Don't be too greedy. Is it up, is it up? It is. Very well | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
played. Little bit of a breeze getting up. | :47:11. | :47:46. | |
Bronte, struggling on with borrowed clubs. She said she was really | :47:47. | :47:52. | |
missing her own putter. Hasn't been a good day for her. I thought she | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
might decide to keep that set, but maybe she will change her mind. | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
Charley Hull. Hasn't really recovered from the seven at the very | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
opening hole. Rocked her back on her feet. Hasn't really had much going | :48:07. | :48:14. | |
since then. Are we going to see a sterling finish? That could have | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
done with skipping forward a bit. But play today generally, has been | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
very constructive, very good. Enjoyable to watch. Can Matthew | :48:24. | :48:36. | |
Craft another birdie out of this hole. Good lay-up. Reasonable pitch. | :48:37. | :48:45. | |
She has putted so well this weekend. Made more than her fair share | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
yesterday. At this juncture, she just wants to hang on and keep | :48:50. | :49:00. | |
Jutanugarn within her sights. Don't let her get too far ahead. Just | :49:01. | :49:10. | |
strolling around like one of those great big giraffes. I wouldn't have | :49:11. | :49:21. | |
picked that particular animal to fit in with this young lady. Good | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
player, Ken. I have never seen her play before. She is absolutely | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
fantastic. She is, as they say, in the moment. Focused. Have you ever | :49:35. | :49:45. | |
had any moments, Ken? Plenty. You just get the feeling she thinks, I | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
am going to hole this. It is not an easy one, it is down the slope. Is | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
it a bit from the right, where is it from, this one? I didn't get close | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
to it, it was a bit of a hostel to get there. Speed is all-important. | :50:03. | :50:13. | |
-- hustle. Yes, I thought it was. Just a couple of pars. Just a couple | :50:14. | :50:23. | |
of pars. What a good-looking card. Five birdies. Beautiful golf. Up to | :50:24. | :50:35. | |
the 12th in this most attractive water hole. Nasty flag position | :50:36. | :50:44. | |
today. Stuffed in on the right-hand side. Very close to the water. Very | :50:45. | :50:57. | |
tempting. Charley Hull. For a birdie at the 13th. Can she end up with a | :50:58. | :51:08. | |
run of birdies up to the clubhouse? Come along, come along. No. That one | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
scene to gain pace when it got to the hole. -- seemed. Mo Martin is | :51:16. | :51:27. | |
normally dynamite with her wedges. I doubt she will be going straight at | :51:28. | :51:35. | |
this one. Aiming a little left. Very dangerous flag position today. Got | :51:36. | :51:47. | |
it to stop. You putt them too hard, you end up in the water with the | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
trout. Peter, when you make that hole, was | :51:51. | :52:03. | |
the water piped in, was there any natural source close by? The | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
Marquess of Tavistock had passed away and he was, the family were | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
very anxious over the water, if we could create some water feature. It | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
has worked out very well. I was a bit dubious, but the flow of water | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
remains constant. It is a very pretty corner. Quite a bit of | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
waterfowl come and visit. There is the smile, part of the pre-shot | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
routine. She walks in. The plan is to get this one to finish between | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
220 and 240 yards out. The fairway is pretty soft. It shouldn't run out | :52:47. | :52:54. | |
too much. Just plop it down onto the island fairway. She has missed it. | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
That's not a good spot to be. Not with the front pin. That will | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
frighten you a bit. This will be a safety shot coming up. It should be. | :53:07. | :53:18. | |
Has it got a bit cooler, Ken? When the sun goes in, but it is still | :53:19. | :53:26. | |
pleasant with a lovely gallery out watching. Catriona Matthew, she has | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
got a little rescue 5-wood. Whatever you want to call them. Blistered up | :53:33. | :53:43. | |
the left side. Over the water... She cut that away to the right. Neither | :53:44. | :53:46. | |
in the best position. Back to 11. Flag only ten arm. | :53:47. | :54:13. | |
Narrow section of the green, as you can see. Very good. It flew in there | :54:14. | :54:27. | |
like an Exocet missile. Back to the 12th. This is the putt Ken had when | :54:28. | :54:39. | |
we were out this morning. He has that magic touch. Just run it down | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
to about 40 inches from the hole. She did the same, just a whisker | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
short. Dangerous side to putt at, going down the hill. | :54:52. | :55:01. | |
This is one of my favourite hole some the golf course. It ranked the | :55:02. | :55:09. | |
second hardest over the first couple of days. Right to left dog left. But | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
she has sneaked her drive past the trees. So she is in the clear. | :55:16. | :55:26. | |
Little bit of inconsistency of bounds on the course at the moment. | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
We have seen some hard bounces and we have seen some dig their toes in? | :55:32. | :55:37. | |
A couple of areas hold more moisture. Birdie putt here, 12. Same | :55:38. | :55:47. | |
line as her partner for the day. That wiggled away, didn't it? | :55:48. | :55:58. | |
Although it's not a long hole, it is one you can easily drop a shot at. | :55:59. | :56:14. | |
Not the easiest position to be coming in from two that flag. I am | :56:15. | :56:27. | |
sure Ken will advise them, if he could, to the left. Playing for a | :56:28. | :56:28. | |
fourth. They've both got their slight | :56:29. | :56:46. | |
difficulties. Matthew has got one of those hard, strands of grass behind | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
the ball. You have two trap it between the clubs face and the ball, | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
which will eliminate any backswing. She has to play a little bit left of | :56:58. | :57:04. | |
the flag. A bit deeper, otherwise it will run out. This is a very tricky | :57:05. | :57:17. | |
shot. 79 yards, bit of a breeze which doesn't help you stop the | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
ball. Ball above the feet. My goodness. Aim it at the Ricoh 12. I | :57:22. | :57:32. | |
think she has, hasn't she, Ken? Straight at it. She managed to hold | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
the green. Well done. That was about as good as you could do without | :57:40. | :57:47. | |
taking a ridiculous risk. Nicely struck. Write down on the ball, | :57:48. | :58:00. | |
Sharp. Similar shot coming up. Jutanugarn's ball has settled on the | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
edge of a little divots. Like hell are shot, she doesn't want to be | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
greedy. She is in command of the tournament. Play the percentage. | :58:11. | :58:22. | |
Well, they have done it very well, very sensibly. | :58:23. | :58:31. | |
Plenty of loft on this. Landed fairly softly. Which is what you | :58:32. | :58:39. | |
wanted, first thing is to get over the water and make sure you didn't | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
go whizzing through the green. Great birdie opportunity on 11 for | :58:43. | :58:52. | |
Mirim Lee. Just brimming of the right-hand | :58:53. | :59:29. | |
edge. Very disappointing. A number of birdie opportunities out here, | :59:30. | :59:33. | |
but you can't let too many of them going begging or you will find | :59:34. | :59:36. | |
yourself going a little bit adrift from the top of the board. Turned | :59:37. | :59:48. | |
professional in 2010 and played for four years on the Korean LPGA. Five | :59:49. | :00:00. | |
women within six shots of Ariya Jutanugarn's lead. You are properly | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
see the name of Maria Jutanugarn, which is her sister by 18 months. | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
Not challenging her sister for the lead as yet. There is older sister, | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
Maria in the chasing pack at 3-under par. But they are a long way back | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
from this 20-year-old from Bangkok, who became the first Thailand | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
winner. Not only did she win one in Alabama, she followed it up with | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
back-to-back and back-to-back wins with Virginia and Mitch Egan as | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
well. The season is belonging to her so far. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
Eased away a little bit and she's found the same spot as the other | :00:52. | :01:32. | |
two. Bronte Law. Coming up short right | :01:33. | :01:49. | |
with her approach on 18. All depends on how it's lying. Very well done. | :01:50. | :02:01. | |
Very deep bunker, that front right, at the 18th. Five or six feet deep. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Birdseye view of the 12th. Lots of debate on the line. You did | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
it this morning. You had a cursory look and stroked it down. | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
Turns a little from right-to-left but not much. | :02:30. | :02:41. | |
The timing is so good I think. Look at that, just swung across. Both of | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
them have little putts left. Stacy Lewis bringing all her | :02:51. | :03:05. | |
concentration to bear on this par-saver, but it's not enough. It | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
was not a good effort by her standards. Dropped shot. Back to | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
8-under. Got her grumpy look on again. Now Catriona, my lovely, this | :03:21. | :03:32. | |
is a testy one. You've putted beautifully, but, can she do another | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
one? ! This is one of these that's just inside the right edge but you | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
need to trust your stroke. Beautifully done. It looks so | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
simple. Only about four-and-a-half feet away. Very slick greens. Body | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
still. Lovely touch. Bronte Law. Can she finish with one | :04:00. | :04:18. | |
good par-saving effort. She can? That's her 76th for the young | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
English woman. She won't be happy, she's very hard on herself indeed, | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
but she's putting up a fine performance in this Championship. | :04:27. | :04:43. | |
Straight up the hill she goes. On we go. | :04:44. | :05:10. | |
15 is a lovely, snaking winding par-5, safely negotiated to this | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
point by Lexi. Bit off the right. Lee and Feng at the 12th. Both gone | :05:14. | :05:46. | |
right off the tee. We have seen this shot before, haven't we? Take a bit | :05:47. | :06:04. | |
of a risk. Oh, she's had a touch of luck. Wonderful result. I think her | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
heart must have been slightly in her mouth there. Absolutely. Coming in | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
from that angle of the green is so shallow. | :06:19. | :06:33. | |
Still miling up, but nobody's sort of stepping out in a big lead. | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
Tomorrow, if they stay like this, could be desperately important and | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
every shot could be important tomorrow. We saw Charley Hull start | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
with confidence, somebody else steps in, gets three and things can change | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
very, very, very quickly. Birdies very awkward pin position. | :06:56. | :07:25. | |
Right-to-left. I don't think I've ever seen a woman do that. She gives | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
it such a crack. She gets ample distance with an iron. There it is, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
255, probably 270 yards. Yes, beautiful. Position A right in the | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
middle of the fairway. Sometimes people say a short course doesn't | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
suit a long hitter but a course like this you can shoot so many irons. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
All the others have to hit woods. You can be very accurate as you have | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
to be very powerful. Remember the way Tiger Woods plotted his way | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
around Hoylake? That was a masterly display. Now Catriona. | :08:03. | :08:22. | |
Support for Matthew and great crowds here all week here at Woburn, | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
families and boys and girls here to watch and indeed to walk around this | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
wonderful course. Quite a few girls helping out here as well. Tom | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
Williams has met some of them. These 16-year-olds don't even play | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the game. Morning, girls. ALL: Morning. This is your carry | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
board... 23 volunteers from year-11 at nearby Thornton College just | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
outside Milton Keynes have this week put their summer holidays on hold to | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
work as school board carriers. They are quite heavy so you can slot them | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
into your Lang yard... Why are you doing this? Hopefully to grow the | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
game of golf. It's really in need of a boost, particularly as far as | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
juniors are concerned so I'm hoping they might be inspired getting up | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
close and personal to the professionals. What an honour, today | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
an twang net is carrying the board for Charley Hull andied ya Ko. -- | :09:29. | :09:41. | |
anal into e. With the -- Antoinette. Has watching Charley Hull meant you | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
want to take up the game? Yes, I liked the clothes she was wearing, | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
they are different to the ones I expected. I expected the players to | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
be old but they are not, they are quite sporty and young. Is enough | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
being done to boost participation, particularly amongst young women? I | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
don't think so, no. By engaging with schools, that is a real opportunity, | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
and we are talking to Woburn golf club at the minute about linking up | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
with us and offering lessons to our pupils. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
I'm one of the young players, I feel like I am a major role model so it's | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
good. I don't really think about that too much because I just want to | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
play, but it's part of being a professional golfer to get people | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
into the game. If I didn't look up to people I wouldn't be into the | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
game. Was it exciting being in amongst it all? Yes, because Charley | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
was playing well, getting lots of birdies which I learnt all about | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
today. After watching how it's done, time to give it a crack. Only 12% of | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
golfers in the UK are women. Fancy giving golf a go? Yes. Why? It's | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
really calming and I suit it and it relaxes me. It's perceived to be | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
more of a man's sport so I would love to show that women can do | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
something like that. You are going to go back and knock the peg over... | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Impressed! I'm sure it has inspired Antoinette | :11:13. | :11:22. | |
and her colleagues from the college. If you would like to have a go, go | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
to the website. Maureen, do you like that idea? It was wonderful. It's | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
important to get them in there and think that the game's cool. | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
One of those young ladies said she liked the fashions and they were | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
saucy. I thought it was sporty. Jay saucy and sporty is good. Bit of | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
character. Very different from 100 years ago. Old thick bullet proof | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
tweeds. Jang for a par. Working hard at the | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
13th. Good effort. That's how they just | :12:14. | :12:34. | |
slip away. Don't want to be more than about four behind if you can | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
help it. Plus the way our leader is playing, I don't think she's going | :12:44. | :12:55. | |
to make many stupid mistakes. Martin trying to edge up the leaderboard. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Oh, not quite. Not guy. Quite. She's played very well this year. Missed | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
one cut out of 18 tournaments in America. | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
Stacy is out in 38 and she's down 3-over. | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
A very busy bunker at the par-314th. Watched a lot of players there in | :13:23. | :13:32. | |
practise and it seems to just be, you know, tease them. Our leader. | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
She always looks sodisgusted. Probably 18 feet away. Not as | :13:44. | :13:56. | |
disgraceful as she might have thought. | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
Set up for a high draw from Matthew. That was just missed the checking on | :14:07. | :14:19. | |
the bank of the green that would have eased it to the flag. A lot of | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
these professional players started the game Ben they were eight, nine, | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
ten years of age. They have been playing a long time, even the very | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
young ones. Karrie Webb won this event 20 years ago on her first | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
visit from native Australia. She can rattle them in. 9-under and not too | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
far away. Back to Lee. Four birdies in her last holes. | :14:51. | :15:05. | |
Things like that can change the score. | :15:06. | :15:28. | |
Dropped one at the last. Very uncharacteristic. Walking away to | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
regroup because the next needs a little care and attention. Lexi | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
Thompson. How is she going to play this one? She's 8-under. | :15:43. | :16:02. | |
Helen was in here a few moments ago. She did a bit of that in her day. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Very entertaining to watch. Great fun. | :16:08. | :16:37. | |
Quite a few '70s there. So how far bag is too far back with one round | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
to go? Five or six, seven. You never really know. Drama toward | :16:47. | :17:08. | |
the end. I don't think it will be a run away four, five shot victory, | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
but things can happen. I think on the whole, the scoring has been | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
excellent due to the conditions. John Clarke and his team have the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
courses here in immaculate condition. It hasn't been the best | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
earliest spring. Done a magnificent job. A little from the left and | :17:33. | :17:54. | |
downhill. They have been going round and round circling for something | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
that's not there. Maureen was saying earlier sometimes they read too much | :17:59. | :18:17. | |
into it. Don't conFaw the brain. That's the first loose shot she's | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
hit. Very rare. Centre of the green is always a good | :18:19. | :19:11. | |
result on this par-3. The green should feed that round a bit towards | :19:12. | :19:24. | |
the flag. A wonderful golf shot. Thompson is one of the new bright | :19:25. | :19:40. | |
girls, only early 20s. Birdie. 9-under. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
Seven wins already to her name despite her youth. Lexi? Yes. | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
Uphill little slower than you think. A bit of movement from the right. | :19:56. | :20:11. | |
You do well to have a little smile! That was a great save. It's been a | :20:12. | :20:27. | |
tremendous pairing to follow. Neither player has dropped a shot. | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
Just when Catriona Matthew had a little bit of hope that she might | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
get one back or have one given back to her, the door is shut on that | :20:43. | :20:55. | |
thought now. Byter, did you like being a front runner in tournaments | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
-- Peter? Or were you good at coming from the pack? I didn't really mind. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Sounds a bit arrogant, I suppose, but I never lost a tournament I | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
should have won, you know. I've watched lots of people maybe making | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
three or four pars. I've never threw a tournament away. | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
I got 21 in 15 years. I always tried to enjoy it and when I used to get a | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
little nervous, I used to slip into my brain the picture of one of my | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
favourite holes, whether it be Parkstone or Ferndown, I could | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
visualise myself hitting down there and it gave me a bit of freedom. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
There's so much about golf, once it's in your brain, you think about | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
it. That private video library of shots is great when you need it. | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
Yes. Just off the fairway. Quite a good distance to the green. Fairly | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
straightforward. Almost a little bit of a false front | :22:07. | :22:27. | |
there. A very checking slope. Took the sting out of the shot but it's | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
not bad. It's all right. Can't be enough, surely. Gosh. Did | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
it best. Why would you want to mark that from | :22:38. | :23:03. | |
there? She's six inches away. You're not going to... . I don't know. | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
Anything to waste time. It's all programmed in there, waste time. | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
17. This is a ferociously difficult flag position on the ledge on the | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
right hand side. She's told us what she thinks of that, yes. That's a | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
huge slope to come up there. That's going to be a very testing putt. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
For such a short club, she must be very displeased with how she struck | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
that. Looking through the valley up to the 14th. Does remind me of that | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
short hole, the first short hole at Augusta which is the fourth hole. | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
It's down the valley up to a green. Quite long. | :24:06. | :24:28. | |
Could end up quite good. Her misses are good, Peter. | :24:29. | :25:13. | |
Peter and I wouldn't look at the course. Some tough pins on this | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
closing stretch. There certainly are. You have to plot your way | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
around. She's got a fine line. Got to be a | :25:22. | :25:39. | |
good crisp one. Our TV tower, eight yards left of the flag on your line, | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
the deep green slope goes on. There is an open-mouth bunker there. | :25:46. | :26:03. | |
That's high. Just tailed off to the right a bit and, from then on, was | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
struggling. Catriona making one of her few | :26:10. | :26:25. | |
errors in this round. Interesting to see Jutanugarn and Lee, two players | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
who've shown frailty towards the crunch time in a major in the past, | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
but you've got proven winners in there, Matthew, Martin, Thompson, | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
Webb, Lewis as well. That name of Leona Maguire as the leading amateur | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
right now in a tie for eighth. Great playing from her. Fair warning for | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
you. Lots of women's sport on BBC television today. Our coverage of | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Ride London's Classic from 6 o'clock on this channel means we are going | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
to be slipping over on to the red button at 6 for the last half hour. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
You will be able to see it on your connected devices via the BBC | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
website. Feel free to stay with us for the final part of our coverage | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
but from 6 it will be on the red button or on the BBC Sport website. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
That said, plenty to enjoy in the next 33 minutes or so here on BBC | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
Two. Tall figure of American Lexi | :27:19. | :27:36. | |
Thompson with dad tending the flag. Good long range putt there. | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
Mirim Lee and a chance to join Ariya Jutanugarn. | :27:46. | :28:07. | |
One of Catriona Matthews' rare errors over the last three days. | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
She's going to land it on a downslope. Going to flip it very | :28:16. | :28:32. | |
quickly. Beautifully played. That becomes a big putt as well. It was | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
lying nicely. Had to hit it hard to get it up sharply. Beautifully | :28:40. | :28:52. | |
played. The round's just stalled a bit. A big par putt coming up for | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
Catriona Matthew, just to maintain her position. Three behind her | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
playing partner at the moment. Suddenly players grind to a halt and | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
everybody is looking around. Just loses your rhythm of the round when | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
everything is going so nicely. They can dawdle around. Just wasting time | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
because they know they are going to be hold up in the next -- held up in | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
the next while. That could have been very tricky. | :29:25. | :29:32. | |
It's trickled down and it's not a bad putt now. From the left, down | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
the slope, 30 feet. This could take a while. Everyone is | :29:36. | :29:53. | |
milling around with no great purpose at the moment. Nowhere to go after | :29:54. | :30:04. | |
this, so just take your time. Jutanugarn just about ready to go | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
now. Come out of her homing pattern. -- holding pattern. The interesting | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
thing is, these closing pins should suit her. At the front you can spin | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
it a bit more than most. If anyone can get at them, she possibly can. | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
To do it you have to take a risk. This would be a bonus after the tee | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
shot. Fantastic putting by Jutanugarn. | :30:27. | :30:39. | |
When she looks back at this round she will look back at the putts on | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
the last two greens and it may start to give her a little bit of real | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
clear water. Six birdies, no drop shots today. Mirim Lee, to stay | :30:54. | :31:03. | |
within two. In it goes. They are just stretching out a little bit at | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
the top of the leaderboard now. Couple of shots between first and | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
second and third and fourth. Vig putt for Matthew. Must make. | :31:14. | :31:27. | |
Tentative, lost the rhythm. Bit of a stutter. She is nothing if she is | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
not patient, but she will be a few shots behind Jutanugarn. Something | :31:33. | :31:39. | |
left here as well. It is her first bogey. I will check. | :31:40. | :32:02. | |
First bogey in some time, he said vaguely. Didn't have a bogey | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
yesterday. First bogey since? I will come back to that one, chat amongst | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
yourselves. First bogey since the first day. Carrie Webb. Over reading | :32:14. | :32:29. | |
that. Seven Majors to her name. 41 wins in the LPGA in 20 years. A | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
stellar career and one of these younger players would like to | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
emulate. Let's see what Mirim Lee can do with this par-3. Cross the | :32:41. | :32:53. | |
valley its sales. Pretty useful again. Very good club. | :32:54. | :33:15. | |
So much of it is the management of the mind. Shanshan Feng, only one | :33:16. | :33:27. | |
birdie today. Three dropped shots. Almost missed her tee off time on | :33:28. | :33:33. | |
Thursday. Arrived with seconds to spare. And the same as Matthew... It | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
is a long carry on that line if you are attacking the pin straight on. | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
You have to feel the players have pushed it a bit because the centre | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
of the green is the percentage play. It is going to be one of those days | :33:49. | :33:56. | |
the Shanshan Feng. Off to Mo Martin. Longest hole on the course. Most | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
players managed to get the wood down there and then click on. But Mo | :34:01. | :34:02. | |
Martin still has some way to go. Go a tiny bit. And it did. Lovely | :34:03. | :34:28. | |
shot. Seen some lovely swinging and great strikes from Mo Martin. She is | :34:29. | :34:38. | |
very close. Back on the tee. Just an iron again for Jutanugarn. Just a | :34:39. | :34:52. | |
blur. Gone 250 yards. Perfect spot. I think if she got two good three | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
words, she would have managed to reached this. Reasonably generous | :35:00. | :35:08. | |
fairway, this one. It is all about threading it through the | :35:09. | :35:22. | |
bunkers for your tee shot and then threading it through even more | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
bunkers for your second. Charley Hull has reached the 17th. | :35:25. | :35:50. | |
Pin on the right-hand side. Just about there. One of the best shots | :35:51. | :36:00. | |
we have seen there today. Such a narrow ledge up there. Lexi Thompson | :36:01. | :36:10. | |
going well down the grip here to cope with this. Has to be careful | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
she doesn't smother it. Her feet slipped a bit. Could have been | :36:16. | :36:31. | |
worse. Overcautious shouts of fore. Health and safety gone mad. Would | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
rather hear that than no shot. Mo Martin. Beautiful shot into this | :36:36. | :36:46. | |
par-5. In she goes. Two birdies in the last five and now alongside | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
Catriona Matthew. Those in third place are currently five shots | :36:53. | :37:01. | |
adrift of Jutanugarn. Suddenly, from being very bunched for a long time, | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
just being stretched out at the top of the field. | :37:07. | :37:27. | |
Now, Mirim Lee, getting more accustomed to the low scoring she is | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
beginning to produce in major Championships. Feeling much more at | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
home up there in the rarefied atmosphere she is in now. This will | :37:39. | :37:47. | |
have quite a swing of the left-hand side. The entire green tilts from | :37:48. | :37:50. | |
left to right as you play the hole. Tracking well. No! Beautiful putt, | :37:51. | :38:17. | |
however. So, her last nine holes have read three, three, four, very | :38:18. | :38:32. | |
good scoring indeed. Karrie Webb, second to the 16th. Sneaking up | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
there today. Three birdies, no drop shots. Karrie Webb... It just about | :38:40. | :38:49. | |
does. After her wide on 18, plenty of | :38:50. | :39:06. | |
green to work with for Lexi Thompson. Just got to get over the | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
ridge. Get a scooter on. -- scoot. Very straight hole. Long par-5 15th. | :39:10. | :39:38. | |
Jutanugarn, with the iron off the tee. Can you see the tree trunk | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
where it splits on the left edge of the green. Caddy giving the | :39:47. | :39:55. | |
instructions. It is a very tricky shot, so she will be keen to get 75 | :39:56. | :40:06. | |
yards within the putting surface to give her chance to spin the ball in. | :40:07. | :40:17. | |
This is miles back. My goodness. Left flat lie. Catriona Matthew 's | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
has already played down there. She finished in the right trap, awkward | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
spot. Catriona Matthew just looking a bit ragged. Jutanugarn, steady | :40:28. | :40:41. | |
enough. But way back in that par-5. Beauty, says the Caddy and beauty it | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
is. No club selection issues for Mo Martin. She is hitting her driver in | :40:49. | :40:50. | |
most of these holes. Now, this is a similar line to the | :40:51. | :41:37. | |
one we saw bronze the law hole for her for a few minutes ago. It is a | :41:38. | :41:50. | |
bit longer. He/she will be keen to see this home. This will give her a | :41:51. | :42:03. | |
68 today. No drop shots so far. She has been a little bit tentative with | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
some of them. Needs to get this one running at the whole. Unlucky. The | :42:09. | :42:16. | |
damage was done of the tee shot. She gave herself such an awkward lie, it | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
was odds-on she was going to pull it well left. Disappointing bogey five | :42:21. | :42:28. | |
to finish on for Thomson. But it is a 69, solid play. 8-under. | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
Currently, that is eight behind. About a yard from the front of the | :42:32. | :42:53. | |
bunker. Can't see the flag. She is wondering should she take a chance. | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
So easy to catch it a little heavy. It'll have to be so doable. Heavy. | :43:00. | :43:09. | |
It is going to require an up-and-down from their to save par | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
for Katrina Matthew. Staring at back-to-back bogeys here. -- | :43:17. | :43:18. | |
Catriona Matthew. Mirim Lee, smashing it away on this | :43:19. | :43:35. | |
par-5. Landing on the upslope. Barely any run. Now, she left | :43:36. | :43:43. | |
herself a long way back, what has she got? 118. Hard and high and this | :43:44. | :43:53. | |
will have some check on it. The last few shots she has hit, she hasn't | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
looked overly pleased with herself. But as we were saying earlier, her | :43:59. | :44:11. | |
misses, are pretty good. Not putting herself too much in bother. Karrie | :44:12. | :44:21. | |
Webb has just run it past. For a lot of players, the birdies just seemed | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
to have dried up. Hanging on, coming home. | :44:26. | :44:35. | |
Karrie Webb keeps the blemish of her scorecard. | :44:36. | :44:51. | |
Just churches out even more. The top six places separated by eight shots. | :44:52. | :45:02. | |
-- stretches out. Little bit more bunched behind. What a great round, | :45:03. | :45:04. | |
68 from Leona Maguire. Matthew, fourth shot. Desperately | :45:05. | :45:47. | |
needs to get down in a couple from here and she has played a good one. | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
Mistake at the last hole, mistake here. Little bit of a struggle. She | :45:54. | :46:04. | |
doesn't want to drop too far behind. It has been very impressive watching | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
our leader. Two or three of the women at the top of the leaderboard, | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
they are playing very, very solid golf today. Beautiful evening now, | :46:15. | :46:24. | |
early evening, late afternoon. The 15th hole, the longest, it is | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
playing the second easiest, averaging 4.70 five. Costly for | :46:31. | :46:36. | |
Matthew. Jutanugarn, outside chance of a birdie. But now back to | :46:37. | :46:44. | |
Charley. 18th, second shot. Not a good day. Three shots gone on the | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
opening hole. She wasn't able to recover. Mo | :46:50. | :47:00. | |
Martin, second into the 16th. She does often play the course from a | :47:01. | :47:10. | |
long way back. She can be deadly accurate. Be good. Another one, what | :47:11. | :47:19. | |
a shot from Mo Martin. She has provided a couple of lasers around | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
today. That one just hopped on a little bit, but when she is playing | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
from so far back, you have to be impressed. There is the leaderboard. | :47:30. | :47:38. | |
Jutanugarn, out in front. Three back to Mo Martin. Karrie Webb coming | :47:39. | :47:45. | |
towards the end of her round. Lexi Thompson heading towards the | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
clubhouse after that 69. Before she gets there, we will hear from her | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
witch hazel. It was the blemish at the end, which | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
I'm sure you are kicking yourself about, but the difficult lie with | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
the shot over the green? Yes, I only missed my 3-wood by two yards. Half | :48:03. | :48:10. | |
in the bunker and half not. I hit a good shot from there, just came out | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
a bit more left. I had a great day out there. You made some real | :48:16. | :48:19. | |
progress, what do you feel about the scoring now and the way Ariya | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
Jutanugarn is playing, and what will it take tomorrow to catch her? A | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
very low round. She is going very low today. I will focus on game, | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
that's all I can control. You are not seeing the way she is playing, | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
are you surprised given everything she has done this season, to see her | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
name at the top? I am not surprised at all, she is an amazing player. | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
She hits it very long and doesn't even hit driver. She is a very | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
strong player. Fearless. You are in the thick of it too, Lexi, play well | :48:55. | :49:01. | |
tomorrow. Thank you. Tomorrow promises to be a very good day. The | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
weather forecast is good. It is nice to look forward to a happy day. :-) | :49:08. | :49:17. | |
's and a worthy winner. -- Smiley faces. Quiet putting routine of | :49:18. | :49:28. | |
Jutanugarn's. The greens seem to be slowing up a bit. Unless I am | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
imagining things. We have seen a lot of putts come up shy. Good line, | :49:33. | :49:40. | |
just finishing pace and coming up six to eight inches short. Matthew, | :49:41. | :49:50. | |
for par. She really does need this one. | :49:51. | :50:03. | |
Cool customer. Conscience, conscious, competence. | :50:04. | :50:22. | |
Good strike. It just trickled away. Another one gone. Two shot strop at | :50:23. | :50:34. | |
a crucial moment. -- dropped. Needs a good finish. Certainly one, | :50:35. | :50:41. | |
hopefully two to get her somewhere near the top. Jutanugarn's rivals | :50:42. | :50:56. | |
need special in the holes remaining to them, otherwise there will be | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
nothing but her heels to look tomorrow. Charley Hull, on the final | :51:02. | :51:11. | |
green. This is quick with a bit of right to left in it. Down it goes. | :51:12. | :51:22. | |
Go, go, go. Groans all round. It started not too far away with the | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
ugly seven on the first some time ago. Couple of birdies, couple of | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
bogeys and she is just going to wait to tap in. Mo Martin, after a | :51:32. | :51:42. | |
beautiful shot into this green. Putt for a birdie. Just a bit too wide. | :51:43. | :51:57. | |
Save par. Jutanugarn, draws admiring gasps and chuckles. 3-wood. It has | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
gone a country mile. Mirim Lee, trying to attack this | :52:01. | :52:19. | |
flag on the par-5. Think she has pulled it a little bit, turned it | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
over and that gives it a little bit more length. The flag, not very far | :52:25. | :52:36. | |
over that bunker. Matthew, got to settle over these closing three | :52:37. | :52:43. | |
holes. Every hole is a possible birdie. They are not too long. Just | :52:44. | :52:51. | |
makes it that little bit more difficult. Flag at 16 on the | :52:52. | :53:03. | |
right-hand side. That might give Matthew a decent angle as we go | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
quickly up to 18 to see Charley Hull finish off. It is a disappointing 75 | :53:08. | :53:18. | |
for the home player. As Peter said, never quite recovered from the | :53:19. | :53:24. | |
opening seven. But she will take a lot of support with her tomorrow. | :53:25. | :53:37. | |
Stacy Lewis. Birdie at the 17th. She's... Done it. Well done. A few | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
near misses round about the turn. But that is good, she's got it back | :53:44. | :53:50. | |
to 9-under. 13 and 14, she dropped a couple of shots. | :53:51. | :54:03. | |
At the moment you feel the players are jockeying for position, just | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
trying to stay close to two Janke Anya Garnis -- Jutanugarn. Just in | :54:11. | :54:21. | |
case she stumbles. Have been impressed with Mirim Lee. It is the | :54:22. | :54:30. | |
first time I have seen her play. She said sometimes her clubface gets a | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
little shot in the takeaway. That is what is keeping her going. | :54:37. | :54:52. | |
Running well... Will it turn? I thought she had it. So did she. | :54:53. | :55:06. | |
Really good effort. She remains a couple behind. Three holes left to | :55:07. | :55:15. | |
go. One more birdie would be very valuable to her. Very impressive. Mo | :55:16. | :55:30. | |
Martin at the 17th. 11-under. Not as you say, mooring, not of powerful | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
player, but she has hit a lot of straight, good quality shots. | :55:37. | :56:04. | |
There we are, Matthew might just be OK. Just OK on the little downslope. | :56:05. | :56:18. | |
Just in the rough and has tucked it nose in the grass, the ball. The | :56:19. | :56:26. | |
good news is, 135 yards left and she has 20 yards of green to land the | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
ball on. This is manageable because it is bound to come out with a bit | :56:33. | :56:34. | |
of run. That is a very good result. It was a | :56:35. | :56:53. | |
magnificent shot. Nice bounce. Chance for three. I thought that was | :56:54. | :57:01. | |
terrific. The pin is 21, three from the right. | :57:02. | :57:20. | |
A very tight to the right of the 16th green. Massive tee shot. 285 | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
yards. After tea with a three with 108 left. -- of the. She has used | :57:28. | :57:37. | |
the 3-wood very often today. Two, three times. What sort of shots has | :57:38. | :57:46. | |
she got here? It is the simplest of shots. Perfect angle. 108 with a | :57:47. | :57:56. | |
breeze, but not much. 9-iron? Probably some sort of a wedge. | :57:57. | :58:02. | |
Probably a gap wedge. We never played this hole to be played like | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
this, this is for the big boys. Give her a red card. Just got to be | :58:08. | :58:14. | |
careful of the right-hand bunker, not leak it too far to the right. | :58:15. | :58:25. | |
How brave the she dare to be. If she goes for the flag, got to be | :58:26. | :58:43. | |
pinpointed. It was brave. It was over the flag. Good shot. We have | :58:44. | :58:49. | |
been talking about her three wins this year, but she also lost in a | :58:50. | :59:00. | |
play-off a couple of weeks ago. She did, but it is Jutanugarn, setting | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
the pace. We're not done yet from Woburn, we will follow the leaders | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
to the finish of their third rounds. But we will have to do so on the red | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
button. Because we have a date in central London, 50 miles south of | :59:14. | :59:20. | |
here for the ride London classic. But we will be back with the | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
conclusion of this third round and then the fourth day live from Woburn | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
on BBC Two from 2pm tomorrow. Thanks for your company on BBC Two. Catch | :59:31. | :59:32. | |
you on the red button I hope. | :59:33. | :59:35. |