AFP
El US Women’s Open has gathered this year nothing less than 41 debutant players in the tournament, so it will not be unreasonable that a surprise may occur. At this point the most striking thing is that there is two amateurs who have slipped second and third (Linn Grant and Kaitlyn Papp, fifth and nineteenth in the ranking to amateur respectively), but of course it is not new that the leader is the Japanese Hinako Shibuno, who took the Women’s British Open in 2019 in his first tournament outside of Japan.
The Japanese finished the day with a card of 67 and totaling 135 strokes, with which leads his pursuer by three strokes, the Swedish Linn Grant (138). Among the Spanish, only Azahara Muoz managed to make the cut, after making a lap of 70 in the field of Jackrabbit (141 in the accumulated), and the malaguea remains with all the possibilities intact despite the stretch of the leader. Carlota Ciganda he did not repeat Thursday’s comeback and after doing 75 he was out of the Open, as Ftima Fernndez Cano and Nuria Iturrioz, there is the atragant Cypress Creek.
La lder, Shibuno, tiene 22 aos and his triumph last year at Marquess Course was totally unexpected despite the fact that he had been reaping good results on the Japanese circuit. The funny thing is that Hinako, after winning the AIG British Open, I got the American LPGA card, but since then he has only played four tournaments there, as he argued last November 2019: “I don’t think I have enough skill to play on the US LPGA, so I’ll be on the Japan Tour for one year.”.
The Smiling Cinderella
Hinako Shibunos birdie at Jackrabbits 1st hole gets her to just 1 off the lead. #USWomensOpenpic.twitter.com/iHPZ5aLtdb
? U.S. Womens Open (USGA) (@uswomensopen) December 11, 2020
If at 22 he was able to win his second major, he would simply would go on to become the sensation of world golf. Today she even said at the end that she did not feel “comfortable” when they reminded her that all this was not new for her, because she had already won a ‘big’.
From today the tournament will be played only on the Cypress Creek fieldWell, let’s remember that as there are fewer hours of light, it was decided to include the Jackrabbit field for the first two days.
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