Bianca Pagdanganan closes in on LPGA Tour card

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 09:36:33 +0000

BIANCA Pagdanganan

Amateur Bianca Pagdanganan battled back with two late birdies to save a 72 and improve to joint 18th as she all but clinched an LPGA card next season with one round left in the exacting eight-round LPGA Q-Series in North Carolina Friday.

The Asian Games bronze medalist groped with her irons off the tee a day after shooting the tournament-best bogey-free 64 Thursday that moved her to joint 27th, making double bogeys on two par-3s (Nos. 2 and 9) of Pinehurst No. 9 and dropping a stroke on No. 11. But she fired five birdies in cold conditions, including back-to-back from No. 16 for a 38-34.

With a seven-round total of 498, the country’s SEA Games’ spearhead lay 17 strokes behind leader Muni He of China but stood safely within the Top 45 and ties group that will receive LPGA Status in 2020.

But while former Philippine Ladies Open champion, who topped the LPGA elims Stage I in California and finished No. 8 in Stage II behind a final round 64 in Florida, has all but clinched her card barring a final round disaster, compatriots Clariss Guce and Dottie Ardina’s respective bids suffered a snag with over par cards in
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