Evian Championship golf: final round – live!

Live updates from the fourth day at the Evian Resort ClubOfficial LPGA leaderboardAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 3.04pm BST The two-time major winner Ariya Jutanugarn breaks a run of pars with birdie at 8. She’s keeping herself within touching distance at -9. Meanwhile a word on Lee Mi-hyang, the runner-up at this year’s ANA. Her round has gone from bad to worse since that double at 3; bogeys at 4, 5 and 6 have crashed her all the way down the leaderboard to -5. Missing a short birdie putt at the par-five 7th won’t have improved her mood. Another year to wait for a major breakthrough that’s surely got to come for the 26-year-old South Korean. 2.58pm BST This is golf, and even seven-time major winners can struggle. Inbee Park just needs this tournament to become only the second player, after Karrie Webb, to complete a five-major Super Grand Slam. (She’s already got a career Grand Slam to her name, for winning the other four, as per LPGA policy, the Evian only having been a fifth major since 2013.) It doesn’t look like she’ll complete the set today, sadly. Her tee shot at 7 is tugged into rough down the right; the second is a full-blown slice. Her third goes straight left into a deep bunker at the front of the green. She can’t get up and down, and that’s her third bogey of the day. She’s -8 and though she’s only six behind, her game doesn’t look in any sort of shape for a challenge. Continue reading…
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