Chandler, Arizona – Lilia Vu finally made a banana burn and then lost the lead on Saturday. She made her three-game winning streak of 68 and 4, taking two leads in England’s Charley Hull to the final round of the Ford Championship.
VU started the game, entering 41 holes without bogey, which was a winning streak for the sixth hole of the Tornado Golf Club.
The double bogey she encountered on the 14th hole was more destructive when Hull put her lead from 15 feet to the lead on the 16th.
This will only sharpen the VU’s focus, especially on the green focus. She raised a 40-foot bird on the ridge of the 15th and replied. She perfectly judged a wedge with the wind on her back, and drew 2 feet on the 16th.
She ran three consecutive shots, extending from 40 feet near the green on the 17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-1 VU ended with a 18-shot below 198.
Hull opened the game with a 63 shot, hitting a 12-foot birdie putt in 18th to score 68 for two shots and entered the final set with VU on Sunday.
But this is far from a two-person game.
Within the lead four goals, seven players were all dealing with strong winds and hard greens, and they asked players to hit their spots on the elastic green greens.
Defending champion Nelly Korda lacks those mixed. Korda was the No. 1 player in the women’s world until she was unstoppable in the back nine but failed to hit five shots and caused two bogeys.
Korda shot 73 and was seven shots behind, with 18 players in front of her.
Vu feels like she has sorted out her swing for a week and plays the best. It’s a matter of judging distance, bounce and wind, which is difficult.
“I was telling my caddie, ‘I can’t get those numbers right today.’ He just said to me, “I just put you on green and you can try to make putts from there. “That’s what we’re doing,” Vu said.
Japan’s Ayaka Furue (67) and Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen (69) were three shots behind, followed by a 14-point under 202, including Jeeno Thitikul (70) (70), world second, China’s Yahui Zhang Yahui Zhang, former China’s Yahui Zhang and former US Women’s Open Championship Champion Champion Croumpion Allisen Corpuz (67).
Zhang’s low in a 65-year-old windy day, including bogey on her last hole.
