SA in 8th position going into final round of The Spirit

The SA Girls finsihed three under on day three of The Spirit being played at Whispering Pines and tied ninth in the women’s competition on -1 while the men are tied sixth on -9. The team is in eighth position on -10 going into the final round.

But the star of the tournament has to be Argentina’s Victoria Tanco who has notched up 14 birdies in three days of superb golf. There are six men tied on 10 birdies each. Haydn Porteus continues to lead the South Aficans on eight birdies, Ruan de Smidt and Iliska Verwey have five each and Kim Williams has four.

Kim Williams reports

Today Iliska and I played well but we can still do better. We still missed good birdie opportunities and made a silly drop on 18. Tomorrow we are going to try do what we did today by attacking the holes we are comfortable with and treating the ones we aren’t with caution. This approach helped us today and we dove-tailed nicely to bring in a three under.

We are both really happy with our games at the moment although our putting is not quite what it should be. With that said we trying to help each other as much as possible on the greens so that when we are ready to putt we can trust the line we both decided on, this seemed to help today and we will be sure to do it again tomorrow and go for it.

If we can bring in a really low round tomorrow we might sneak onto the podium.

Results and full report

Course : Whispering Pines Golf Club
current
position
team scoring rounds total
score
to par thru today 1 2 3
1 United States -20 F -9 133 144 135 412
2 Denmark -17 F -9 136 144 135 415
T3 Argentina -16 F -9 139 142 135 416
T3 Canada -16 F -2 132 142 142 416
5 Korea -15 F -5 138 140 139 417
6 Germany -12 F -7 140 143 137 420
7 Mexico -11 F -7 139 145 137 421
8 South Africa -10 F -4 140 142 140 422
9 Australia -9 F -7 136 150 137 423
T10 France -8 F -11 148 143 133 424
T10 Colombia -8 F -10 147 143 134 424
T10 Japan -8 F -3 137 146 141 424
T13 Sweden -7 F -5 142 144 139 425
T13 England -7 F -3 141 143 141 425
15 Italy -6 F -3 134 151 141 426
16 Belgium -5 F E 137 146 144 427
17 Switzerland -2 F +3 141 142 147 430
18 Ireland -1 F E 142 145 144 431
19 Norway +13 F +5 145 151 149 445
20 China +70 F +15 175 168 159 502
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