Nasa Hataoka is out of this world. He has already posted two wins this season at the Dana Open presented by Marathon and the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, plus two other top 10. Hataoka is third on the LPGA Tour in sand saves at 60.53% and came this week in the CME Group Tour Championship ranked 10th in the Race to the CME Globe and fifth on the Official Money List for the 2021 season.
But after a 64 without bogeys, with a 29 in the last nine holes and eight birdies in the last 10 holes of the day, the 22-year-old has reminded everyone at Tiburon Golf Club how astronomically low she can go. as it reaches Sunday tied for the lead with -14.
“I felt really good from the start,” he said after an effort Saturday that tied for the third-lowest round of his career, a number he has shot another nine times. “In the first nine I was not making my putts well, but I was patient with that. I was more focused on my routine this week, which helped my game today. “
This is the seventh time Hataoka has held the lead or co-lead across 54 holes, and he has won four times when he has, most recently at both the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship and the Dana Open earlier this year. . At the Tour’s season finale, in which he has only played three times, Hataoka’s best result is a solo ninth place finish, a record he wants to break with a victory on Sunday. With the confidence derived from her game on Saturday and victorious experience in previous co-leadership situations, Nasa is poised for a stellar Sunday and looks forward to a chance at one of the biggest bags in women’s golf.
“I wasn’t playing that consistently throughout the year, but I thought my golf image was very important to me, so that’s something I worked on after Arkansas,” Hataoka said. “After doing a good round (today), there are many things on my mind, but I try not to think too much about my game. My goal for this week is just to play consistently and I want to do my best tomorrow. “
