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Nam, 24, shot a 2-under-par 69 at Palos Verdes
Golf Club, leaving her at 8-under 134. Defending champion
Ruoning Yin of China (65 on Friday) and Sweden's Madelene
Sagstrom (69) are tied for second at 7 under.
Rose Zhang (68), Alison Lee (70) and Ireland's Leona Maguire
(65) share fourth place at 6 under, with Lauren Hartlage (71)
and Sweden's Linn Grant (68) another stroke back, tied for
seventh. Six players are tied for ninth.
Nam would have held a larger lead except for a double-bogey 6 on
the 15th hole. She started her day with a bogey, then made five
birdies and eight pars over the next 13 holes. Following the
blowup at No. 15, she closed with three more pars.
"It's my second tournament on the LPGA so I'm a little nervous,"
Nam said. "I think it's good to be nervous though. It means that
you care and it means that you're so close to achieving a goal
of yours. I try to just embrace that nervousness."
Nam holds a home-course advantage, having played Palos Verdes
more than 100 times.
"I've seen every single inch of this golf course, good and bad,"
she said. "It's funny, because in college I never really played
well here. This is actually the first time that I think I shot
consecutively under par, so I'm a bit surprised myself."
Yin carded an eagle on the par-5 seventh hole. She also had six
birdies and back-to-back bogeys in the middle of her round.
"If I make a bogey, I'm OK with it, but I'm not OK with (a)
three-putt," Yin said. "I was (angry). I was like, that's the
mistake I shouldn't have. (My caddie) keep telling me you got to
be patient."
Sagstrom finished the day with four birdies and two bogeys.
"I didn't have the same flow as I did yesterday," Sagstrom said.
"I was making a lot birdies yesterday. My putter was still
putting well. Nothing was really going in. But I had a few
troubles off the tee. Managed to do a few saves on my front
nine.
"So overall, I mean, this is golf, you're going to have days
where you're going to have to fight a little bit harder. This is
one of those days."
--Field Level Media
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