Grant falls short in bid for 59, leads LPGA Dana

SYLVANIA, Ohio — Lynn Grant put herself in place to develop into simply the second LPGA Tour participant to interrupt 60, however she performed the ultimate 5 holes in even par for a 9-under 62 and has a 6-stroke lead getting into the ultimate spherical of the Dana Open.

Grant was 9 beneath on her first 13 holes on a protracted, wet Saturday at Highland Meadows, giving hope that she might be part of fellow Swede Annika Sorenstam as the one LPGA Tour gamers to shoot 59.

Sorenstam achieved the feat within the 2001 Normal Register Ping at par-72 Moon Valley in Phoenix.

Two strokes again getting into the spherical, Grant had an 18-under 195 whole to take a 6-stroke lead over U.S. Ladies’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz (68), Stephanie Kyriacou (65), Maria Fassi (67), Matilda Castren (67) and Emily Pedersen (67).

Searching for her first LPGA Tour victory, the 24-year-old Grant gained the Jabra Girls Open in Might in France for her fifth Girls European Tour title in two seasons.

Grant opened with a par Saturday and birdied the following 4. After a rain delay of three hours, 48 minutes, she resumed play on No. 8 and added a birdie on No. 9 for a front-nine 29.

Grant holed out a full shot from the golf green for eagle on the par-4 eleventh and birdied Nos. 12 and 13.

Needing to play the ultimate 5 in 3 beneath for a 59, the previous Arizona State participant parred the following two, bogeyed the par-4 sixteenth, birdied the par-5 seventeenth and parred the par-5 18th.

Corpuz gained the U.S. Ladies’s Open per week in the past at Pebble Seashore for her first tour title.

Second-round chief Annie Park had a 71 to drop right into a tie for seventh at 11 beneath with Minjee Lee (67).