Caroline Hedwall pushes for contention in the final round of Evian Masters
The fourth and the final round of the biggest event on the Ladies European Tour, the Evian Masters presented by Société Générale is underway at the Evian Masters Golf Club, in Evian-Les-Bains, France.
The final day has turned out to be a bright sunny day, providing perfect conditions for a nail-biting final round of the lucrative €2,437,500 (US $3,250,000) event.
Overnight leader, Ai Miyazato is holding on to the lead, pulling in a birdie in one of the four opening holes and is currently one-under until the latest reports. The player, who started off her final round with a two shot lead over the rampaging Caroline
Hedwall, is still two shots clear of the Swede who is eager to win yet another title on the tour.
Miayazato has played exceptional golf so far in the event and stumbled on bogeys on just two occasions in the three days on the weekend. Her impressive performance, perhaps, will not be enough to keep a check on Hedwall who has pulled in four birdies in
her front nine so far without dropping a shot.
Still a rookie on the LET, Hedwall topped all the major golf tours; the Ladies European Tour, the European Tour, the LPGA Tour, the Asian Tour and PGA Tour in terms of Greens in regulation. She has won twice on the LET for the season, winning at the Allianz
Ladies Slovak Open and the Finnair Masters and also went over to win the hybrid PowerPlay Golf in Wales.
Hedwall’s performance in the Evian Masters so far is more of repetition of what she did in the Finnair Masters. Carding an opening round of 73 on the first day, Hedwall kept a low profile until her impressive 66 and 69 in the proceeding rounds and is all
set to forge her way to the summit.
In-Kyung Kim of Korea, nick-named “Birdie Machine” in the tournament, opened up her front nine with blistering birdies on the first and third but fell in for a bogey on the par-four, 6th. She is now 11-under for the moment, three shots behind
the leader. Hedwall is sharing the second place with three other players, including American Stacey Lewis, Korean Ran Hong, and another American Angela Stanford.
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