LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship R3

MEDIHEAL Championship 2021 R3
June 10-13
Lake Merced Golf Club, Daly City, California
$1,500,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Min Lee fired a 68 to take a two-stroke lead at 9-under in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship. Coming off her third Symetra Tour victory at the Mission Inn Resort & Club Championship, she is looking for her first win and holds the 54-hole lead for the first time since joining the LPGA in 2015. Her total 207 is her lowest 54-hole score since the 2018 Meijer LPGA Classic when she posted a 206.

MEDIHEAL Championship 2021 R3

“I didn’t really think about making a birdie on the golf course because I’m just t.rying to play smart and try to play my own game. I have probably five straight pars when I’m turning back, but I just gave myself a lot of chances to make birdies,” said Lee. “If it goes in, it goes in. If doesn’t go in, I’ll just, next shot.”

Lee started her round with a birdie at the first, and after her lone bogey of the day at the 5th, made four more birdies over her last ten holes including three in her final four. A win would make her the second winner from Chinese Taipei this season, following Wei-Ling Hsu at the Pure Silk Championship.

MEDIHEAL Championship 2021 R3

“I mean, because [Wei-Ling and I] grew up together, we’re about the same age, and we trained together growing up. We have been classmates all the time, and I really think about if she can make it, I can do it, too,” said Lee. “So that’s the thing in my mind. I hope this week I’ll have a good finish.”

Matilda Castren, only the second Finnish player to play on Tour, and Lauren Kim round out Sunday’s final grouping, with both players making a birdie at the 18th to secure their spot in the trio for the first time in their LPGA Tour careers.

MEDIHEAL Championship 2021 R3

“I just tried to make some pars and made a couple birdies, so I was like 1- or 2-under for most of the round and managed to take advantage of the par-5s and luckily birdied No. 18, so that was really nice,” said Castren. “Played here once few years ago in a Monday Qualifier. It was my first year as a pro, so it was a really nice experience to see what it’s like to play on an LPGA course. I really like it. It’s very similar to Olympic [Club] that we played last week, so I feel like that was a really good prep for me coming into this week.”

MEDIHEAL Championship 2021 R3

LPGA Tour rookie Albane Valenzuela fired a 68 to sit in a tie for fourth with 2020 U.S. Women’s Open champion A Lim Kim at 6-under. Five players are 5-under and tied for sixth, including 36-hole leader Danielle Kang, who had an unfortunate double bogey at the 18th after going out of bounds from a greenside bunker to add to three bogeys and three birdies on Saturday.

Of the ten players within four shots of Lee’s lead, seven are looking to become the third Rolex First-Time Winner of the 2021 season.

MEDIHEAL Championship 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	Scores	Total
1	Min Lee	-9	70-69-68	207
T2	Matilda Castren	-7	71-69-69	209
T2	Lauren Kim	-7	69-69-71	209
T4	Albane Valenzuela	-6	68-74-68	210
T4	A Lim Kim	-6	72-69-69	210
T6	Lindsey Weaver	-5	73-69-69	211
T6	Jenny Shin	-5	72-69-70	211
T6	Jennifer Kupcho	-5	69-72-70	211
T6	Jenny Coleman	-5	71-69-71	211
T6	Danielle Kang	-5	71-66-74	211
T11	Lydia Ko	-4	72-70-70	212
T11	Ashleigh Buhai	-4	71-71-70	212
T11	Lucy Li	-4	71-71-70	212
T11	Yealimi Noh	-4	72-69-71	212
T11	Patty Tavatanakit	-4	70-71-71	212
T11	Leona Maguire	-4	65-73-74	212
T17	So Yeon Ryu	-3	73-73-67	213
T17	Mina Harigae	-3	73-71-69	213
T17	Lexi Thompson	-3	71-72-70	213
T17	Min Seo Kwak	-3	71-71-71	213
T17	Angel Yin	-3	72-69-72	213
T17	Jane Park	-3	69-71-73	213
T23	Cydney Clanton	-2	75-71-68	214
T23	Ryann O’Toole	-2	73-71-70	214
T23	Inbee Park	-2	69-75-70	214
T23	Hannah Green	-2	72-71-71	214
T23	Annie Park	-2	72-70-72	214
T23	Jasmine Suwannapura	-2	66-76-72	214
T23	Charley Hull	-2	73-68-73	214
T23	Da Yeon Lee	-2	69-72-73	214
T23	Alison Lee	-2	68-72-74	214
T32	Nanna Koerstz Madsen	-1	74-69-72	215
T32	Shanshan Feng	-1	73-70-72	215
T32	Yu Liu	-1	72-69-74	215
T32	Su Oh	-1	71-70-74	215
T36	Sei Young Kim	E	73-74-69	216
T36	Emma Talley	E	71-75-70	216
T36	Sarah Schmelzel	E	74-69-73	216
T39	Ayako Uehara	+1	75-73-69	217
T39	Michelle Wie West	+1	73-75-69	217
T39	Georgia Hall	+1	77-70-70	217
T39	Celine Boutier	+1	72-75-70	217
T39	Hyo Joo Kim	+1	71-74-72	217
T39	Jodi Ewart Shadoff	+1	74-70-73	217
T39	Jeongeun Lee	+1	71-73-73	217
T39	Wei-Ling Hsu	+1	74-69-74	217
T39	Nicole Broch Larsen	+1	72-71-74	217
T39	Lindy Duncan	+1	72-70-75	217
T39	Lauren Stephenson	+1	70-71-76	217
T50	Hee Young Park	+2	76-71-71	218
T50	Xiyu Lin	+2	73-73-72	218
T50	Sarah Jane Smith	+2	73-73-72	218
T50	Alena Sharp	+2	75-69-74	218
T50	Haeji Kang	+2	73-71-74	218
T50	Dana Finkelstein	+2	72-72-74	218
T50	Minjee Lee	+2	73-69-76	218
T57	Brittany Lincicome	+3	76-72-71	219
T57	Azahara Munoz	+3	75-73-71	219
T57	Esther Henseleit	+3	77-70-72	219
T57	Haru Nomura	+3	78-68-73	219
T57	Linnea Johansson	+3	73-72-74	219
T62	Kristy McPherson	+4	75-73-72	220
T62	Janie Jackson	+4	76-71-73	220
T62	Katherine Kirk	+4	75-72-73	220
T62	Kendall Dye	+4	72-72-76	220
T66	Giulia Molinaro	+5	76-72-73	221
T66	Kelly Tan	+5	75-73-73	221
T66	Wichanee Meechai	+5	72-76-73	221
T66	Jennifer Song	+5	74-73-74	221
T66	Ana Belac	+5	72-75-74	221
T66	Bianca Pagdanganan	+5	71-73-77	221
T66	Jing Yan	+5	71-72-78	221
T73	Kyung Kim	+6	72-76-74	222
T73	Klara Spilkova	+6	71-76-75	222
75	Mariajo Uribe	+7	69-76-78	223
T76	Gemma Dryburgh	+8	73-74-77	224
T76	Pornanong Phatlum	+8	72-73-79	224
78	Jacqui Concolino	+10	75-72-79	226
CUT	Elizabeth Szokol		78-71	149
CUT	Dottie Ardina		77-72	149
CUT	Katelyn Dambaugh		77-72	149
CUT	Mo Martin		77-72	149
CUT	Gerina Piller		76-73	149
CUT	Sarah Burnham		74-75	149
CUT	Leslie Cloots		74-75	149
CUT	Paula Reto		74-75	149
CUT	Linnea Strom		71-78	149
CUT	Ssu-Chia Cheng		78-72	150
CUT	Brianna Do		76-74	150
CUT	Esther Lee		76-74	150
CUT	Paula Creamer		75-75	150
CUT	Perrine Delacour		75-75	150
CUT	Andrea Wong		75-75	150
CUT	Tiffany Chan		74-76	150
CUT	Christina Kim		74-76	150
CUT	Liz Nagel		74-76	150
CUT	Lauren Coughlin		72-78	150
CUT	Dani Holmqvist		79-72	151
CUT	Kristen Gillman		77-74	151
CUT	Mind Muangkhumsakul		76-75	151
CUT	Benyapa Niphatsophon		76-75	151
CUT	Kathleen Scavo		75-76	151
CUT	Bronte Law		74-77	151
CUT	Anne van Dam		72-79	151
CUT	Juli Inkster		77-75	152
CUT	Louise Ridderstrom		77-75	152
CUT	Na Yeon Choi		76-76	152
CUT	Lee Lopez		76-76	152
CUT	Mariah Stackhouse		75-77	152
CUT	Jiwon Jeon		74-78	152
CUT	Mi Hyang Lee		74-78	152
CUT	Caroline Inglis		73-79	152
CUT	Pernilla Lindberg		73-79	152
CUT	Jillian Hollis		72-80	152
CUT	Alana Uriell		81-72	153
CUT	Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras		80-73	153
CUT	Daniela Darquea		79-74	153
CUT	Maria Fassi		79-74	153
CUT	Yujeong Son		77-76	153
CUT	Marissa Steen		76-77	153
CUT	Mirim Lee		73-80	153
CUT	Tiffany Joh		81-73	154
CUT	Anne-Catherine Tanguay		79-75	154
CUT	Rachel Heck (a)		76-78	154
CUT	Jaclyn Lee		76-78	154
CUT	Haley Moore		74-80	154
CUT	Luna Sobron Galmes		74-80	154
CUT	Vicky Hurst		80-75	155
CUT	Stephanie Meadow		80-75	155
CUT	Suzuka Yamaguchi		78-77	155
CUT	Julieta Granada		77-78	155
CUT	Jaye Marie Green		77-78	155
CUT	Andrea Lee		77-78	155
CUT	Yani Tseng		77-78	155
CUT	Jennifer Chang		76-79	155
CUT	Muni He		76-79	155
CUT	Maria Fernanda Torres		76-79	155
CUT	Cheyenne Knight		77-79	156
CUT	Pavarisa Yoktuan		79-78	157
CUT	Maia Schechter		78-80	158
WD	Amy Yang		71
WD	Brooke M. Henderson		77
WD	Cristie Kerr		78
WD	Eun-Hee Ji