Golf: Tseng hovers at Singapore event

SINGAPORE: World number one Tseng Yani eagled her last hole at Singapore’s star-studded HSBC Women’s Champions yesterday as she shot up the leaderboard and put pressure on first-round leader Azahara Munoz.

Tseng’s 25-foot downhill putt across the 18th green, a contender for shot of the day, drew broad smiles and an arms-aloft celebration from the Taiwanese ace as she rocketed up the standings to lie three shots behind Munoz with a 68.

Tseng, the ‘Pride of Taiwan’, carded three birdies and a bogey over her first seven holes, and then parred 10 in a row in what looked destined to be a quiet round — until her grandstand finish.

Meanwhile, Japan’s Ai Miyazato was forced to pull out of the Singapore event as she recovers from similar injuries from the five-car smash in Bangkok, which also involved Norway’s Suzann Pettersen.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2013.