The Swedish Anna Nordqvist and the Danish Nanna Koerstz Madsen will face the last day of the British Women’s Golf Open, the last “Major” of the year, with a stroke advantage, after rising this Saturday to the first position with a total of 207 impacts. 9 under par, while Navarre Carlota Ciganda is ranked 46.
If the leadership of Koerstz Madsen, who started the day from the fourth position just two blows from the head, was not a surprise, less expected was the comeback of the Swedish Nordqvist, who started the day in 22nd place.
But The Swedish player, who has two “Majors” in her record, showed her best version this Saturday in the Scottish field of Carnoustie to deliver a sensational 65-shot card, 7 under par, after signing a total of seven birdies.
A figure that no one could reach, not even Danish Nanna Koerstz Madsen, who scored a spectacular “eagle” on the 12th hole, a 456-meter par 5, which the Nordic golfer completed in three strokes.
And it is that three holes before, in 10, Koerstz Madsen, who was third last April in the ANA Inspiration, the first “big” of the course, signed a “bogey”, which led the Danish to present a 68 hit card, 4 under par, that forced him to share the first place with the Swedish Anna Nordqvist.
With one more blow than the Swedish and the Danish figure in the third position the American Lizette Salas (-8), while the Olympic champion in Tokyo, the also North American Nelly Korda occupies the eighth place with a total of 210 strokes, three more than the leading duo.
For its part, the Spanish Carlota Ciganda occupies the 46th position with a total of 216 impacts, the par of the field, after signing an irregular day this Saturday in which the Navarrese alternated 6 “bogeys”, with 4 “birdies” and an “eagle” on the 14th hole.