Late wobble prices Bianca Pagdanganan lead at Anvaya

Bianca Pagdanganan. –CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Bianca Pagdanganan obtained undone with an uncharacteristic double bogey 5 on the sixteenth on Wednesday and the Filipino ace beginning her journey again to golf’s grandest stage discovered herself trailing by a shot after the primary spherical of the $100,000 Anvaya Cove Worldwide in Morong, Bataan.

Engaged on a five-under-par card heading into her final three holes, Pagdanganan missed the inexperienced lengthy and wanted 4 extra strokes to gap out, finally signing for a 69 as PK Kongkraphan of Thailand pounced on the chance to take a one-shot lead after a 68.

It was a disappointing ending to an in any other case explosive spherical for Pagdanganan, who eagled the tenth earlier than rattling off consecutive birdies in dominating the featured threesome that additionally had Taiwanese No. 1 Ya-Chun Chang, who submitted a 70.

Chanelle Avaricio and Chihiro Ikeda, a number of leg winners within the Girls Philippine Golf Tour final yr, have been the subsequent best-placed Filipinos after 77s because the Mountain 9 (entrance) and Seaside 9 (again) examined the proficient discipline with winds howling from all instructions.

“It was tremendous windy so I felt I wanted to make fairly few changes. My objective was to hit fairways, and felt like this course is admittedly slender and it’s essential to maintain your ball in play,” Pagdanganan, who’s utilizing this occasion to sharpen her sport for the Epson Tour and in a while get a crack again to the US LPGA, mentioned.

“I feel I used to be capable of a minimum of type of get that objective down for the day, was fairly glad with how I hit it, and felt like I wanted to capitalize extra on my actual alternatives” she added. “However there’s nonetheless a few rounds left and there’s nonetheless much more to look ahead to.”

Kongkraphan, an eight-year veteran of the LPGA, admitted to enjoying a bit subdued and had the nice outcome to point out for it.

“You don’t should be too aggressive on this course,” mentioned Kongpraphan, who had only one bogey.

Harmie Constantino and Daniella Uy, one other pair of fancied Filipino bets, hobbled with 78s and would want to piece collectively really low second spherical scores on Thursday to matter within the closing spherical.

In the meantime, Chang, a former teammate of Pagdanganan at College of Arizona, wanted to buck a bum abdomen in churning out that spherical of 70 that truly began with a bogey. INQUIRER SPORTS STAFF

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