Click here for complete groups and tee times for the final round of Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic.
10:01 a.m. – 1st Tee
Pornanong Phatlum, Austin Ernst, Hyo Joo Kim
Pornanong Phatlum, Austin Ernst and Hyo Joo Kim are grouped together in Sunday’s final round in the Bahamas. While Phatlum enjoyed representing her home country of Thailand at the Olympic games in Rio, the 2009 rookie is still in search of her first victory on Tour. She’ll need to make up quite a bit of ground to have a chance on Sunday. Phatlum enters the final round at 15-under par, eight-strokes back of leaders Lexi Thompson and Stacy Lewis. Also at 15-under is playing partner Austin Ernst, looking to return to the winner’s circle for the first time since 2014. Ernst carded a final round 69 in this event in 2016 to finish T-21. Kim, the defending champion this week, enters the final round at 14-under par. Despite struggling since her win here in 2016, Kim is on track to post her first top-10 finish of the year.
10:12 a.m. – 1st Tee
Brittany Lincicome, Laetitia Beck, Nelly Korda
Two-time major champion Brittany Lincicome will play alongside Laetitia Beck and Nelly Korda on Sunday. While Lincicome is a veteran and six-time winner, Beck and Korda are in the hunt for the first win of on Tour. Beck is a 2015 rookie on Tour who represented her home country of Israel at the Olympic games in Rio. Her career best finish on Tour came in May of 2016 at the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic when she finished T-15. Korda is a rookie this season on Tour. But the name might seem familiar because her sister, Jessica, has been a member since 2011 and won this event in 2014. Korda recorded a career best 10-under par, 63 to earn her way into the penultimate group on Sunday. She enters the final round at 15-under par, eight-strokes back of the lead. Beck sits at 16-under par and Lincicome is 21-under par, two-strokes back of the lead.
10:23 a.m. – 1st Tee
Stacy Lewis, Lexi Thompson, Gerina Piller
The trio that represented the United States at the Olympic games in Rio is reunited on Sunday in the Bahamas. For the 14th time in her career, Stacy Lewis enters the final round on the LPGA Tour with a share of the 54-hole lead. Lexi Thompson shares the lead with Lewis and will play alongside her and Gerina Piller in Sunday’s final round. Lewis has gone on to win eight times when leading after 54-holes, including her last victory on Tour – the 2014 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship. Lewis has twice finished runner-up in this event including last season. Thompson is in search of her eighth win on Tour. She’ll look to continue her streak, having won every year on Tour since 2013. Piller, however, is still in search of her first win on Tour. The 2010 rookie came close to breaking through in 2016 when she finished in the top-10 nine times, including runner-up at the Volunteers of America Texas Shootout.
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