FacebookPinterestANDY BUCHANANKorea's Inbee Park walks to the 16th tee during her third roun of the 2017 Women's British Open. / AFP PHOTO / Andy BUCHANAN (Photo credit should read ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s called the luck of the draw. And Inbee Park and Stacy Lewis took full advantage in third round of the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Kingsbarns on Saturday.
For one thing, the pair played the vast majority of their rounds in warm sunshine, finishing before the leaders even started. For another, Park made eight birdies and no bogeys en route to equalling Michelle Wie’s course record of 64; Lewis’ nine birdies hampered only by the brace of dropped shots that saw her round in 65. And for one more, just about the time the current Olympic champion and former WBO champion were signing their cards, the temperature began to drop markedly and the rain started to fall.
Mixed well, all of the above saw Park rise from a lowly T-48 to second; Lewis to T-3. Only overnight lea..

FacebookPinterestKirk H. OwensThe ninth hole at San Diego Country Club as seen on April 4, 2016 in Chula Vista, Calif. (USGA/Kirk H. Owens)

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — The old course here, San Diego Country Club, has aged more gracefully than some of the neighborhoods surrounding it, a beauty amid the blight, yet unimpressively so to the dispassionate arbiter known as time. It has moved on.
The PGA Tour briefly was a tenant and the U.S. Women’s Open spent a memorable week there once. But the modern professional game and its expanding demands for space has outgrown the course, which opened in 1921. Hey, Merion is not on a U.S. Open schedule, either, but Torrey Pines is. It happens.
So it is left to an event like this, the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship that begins here on Monday, to remind us of its quality and character and to pay homage to its heritage, meanwhile keeping it relevant in a crowded landscape of otherwise largely forgotten gems.
“Kudos to San Diego Country Club,” Shannon Ro..

FacebookPinterestKirk H. OwensThe ninth hole at San Diego Country Club as seen on April 4, 2016 in Chula Vista, Calif. (USGA/Kirk H. Owens)

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — The old course here, San Diego Country Club, has aged more gracefully than some of the neighborhoods surrounding it, a beauty amid the blight, yet unimpressively so to the dispassionate arbiter known as time. It has moved on.
The PGA Tour briefly was a tenant and the U.S. Women’s Open spent a memorable week there once. But the modern professional game and its expanding demands for space has outgrown the course, which opened in 1921. Hey, Merion is not on a U.S. Open schedule, either, but Torrey Pines is. It happens.
So it is left to an event like this, the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship that begins here on Monday, to remind us of its quality and character and to pay homage to its heritage, meanwhile keeping it relevant in a crowded landscape of otherwise largely forgotten gems.
“Kudos to San Diego Country Club,” Shannon Ro..