France’s Perrine Delacour headed into yesterday’s final round of the Kingsmill Championship with a one-stroke lead over American Alison Lee after shooting a four-under 67 in Saturday’s third round.
Delacour ended her round in style with three birdies on the last five holes, including the par-four 18th.
The 21-year-old has yet to win on the LPGA Tour in 20 starts and missed the cut in her two other tournaments in the US so far this year.
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She said she would draw on her experience in the Girls British Open Amateur in yesterday’s final round at Williamsburg, Virginia.
“When I won the British Amateur, I didn’t have the game to win, so I just play every match and win every match, and at the end I win the tournament,” Delacour told reporters. “So I try to do the same tomorrow [Sunday].”
Lee had enjoyed a four-stroke lead, but saw that disintegrate down the stretch as she made a bogey on the par-four 16th and a double bogey on the par-three 17th.
“I felt like I hit a couple decent strokes,” Lee said. “I just misread it. Especially coming down I think 15, 16, 17, I hit strokes that I thought were good, but it didn’t turn out as well. I’m pretty sure that four-putt on 17 will come back to haunt me.”
“I’m just glad I finished under par today and just looking forward to tomorrow [Sunday],” she said.
American Paula Creamer carded an impressive 66 to move to two strokes off the lead along with South Korean Ryu So-yeon and Australia’s Minjee Lee.
“My putter was hot and I gave myself some really good looks for par, even thought I had to save them,” Creamer said. “It was a crazy back nine, that’s for sure.”
Creamer had 23 putts, including three long putts for birdie on the back nine, including a 15 and 30 footer.
Kaohsiung-born US player Candie Kung carded five birdies and two bogeys to score 68, totaling three-under 210 and moving up from being tied for 40th to being tied for 20th going into the fourth round.
Additional reporting by Jenny Munro
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