PUBLISHED : 4 Nov 2022 at 04:00
Pattaya: Malaysia’s Liyana Durisic stormed to the highest of the leaderboard on the Ladies’s Newbie Asia-Pacific championship with 5 birdies in her final six holes within the opening spherical yesterday.
The 21-year-old Kuala Lumpur native, who has competed in all three editions of the championship, is famend for low scoring.
Whereas enjoying for Iowa State College this season, she made 95 birdies, which was the second most by anybody within the staff. At Siam Nation Membership’s Waterside course, she fired seven extra to complete on six-under-par 66.
Durisic was chased by two very acquainted faces from the final WAAP — Australia’s Kelsey Bennett and native hero Natthakritta Vongtaveelap — who have been tied second behind Mizuki Hashimoto in Abu Dhabi and have been once more tied for second place after yesterday’s spherical at five-under-par 67.
Durisic’s solely bogey of the day got here in the course of her incredible birdie stretch, throughout which she hit three strategy pictures to tap-in distance.
The 22-year-old Bennett began from the tenth tee and in addition made only one bogey — on the seventeenth gap. If not for that one blemish, she had a really regular spherical of six birdies to climb to second place.
Natthakritta, who gained the person and staff gold medals on the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games in Hanoi 2022 and the 88th Singha Thailand Newbie Open final month, was cruising with 5 birdies earlier than making a late bogey on the fifteenth gap. She made up for it together with her energy on the par-five 18th gap the place she closed together with her sixth birdie.
South Korea’s Lim Ji-Yoo, the highest-ranked non-Japanese participant within the subject at No.13 on World Newbie Golf Rating order, was fourth alone at four-under-par 68, whereas Saki Baba, the highest-ranked at No.3, made 17 pars and a solitary bogey in her one-over-par 73.
Six gamers have been tied for fifth place, a bunch that additionally included the defending champion Mizuki Hashimoto.
