(8 August 2011 – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
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New Zealand&aposs Cathryn Bristow is the leader in the clubhouse on 9-under par at the rain-shortened Pennsylvania Classic. Twelve of the 144 players will return to complete the final round on Monday at 7:30 a.m. after the decision was made earlier in the day to reduce the tournament to 36 holes. With the nearest player to Bristow sitting on 5-over par, she has effectively won the tournament but will have to wait until Monday to collect the trophy.
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rn The start of Sunday’s continuation of round two was delayed from 8:00 a.m. to 1:50 p.m. due to course conditions from overnight rain. Play was then suspended for lightning at 3:36 p.m., resumed at 4:38 p.m. suspended again at 5:08 p.m., resumed at 5:47 p.m. and called for the day at 8:26 p.m. due to darkness.
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rn“Sunday lent itself to a series of pop-up storms, and forced us on two occasions to suspend play for lightning,” said LPGA Futures Tour VP of Tournament Operations Christy Barks. “After our afternoon resumption, the decision was made to shorten the tournament to 36 holes.”
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rnBristow, who will secure her first LPGA Futures Tour victory, played flawless golf on Sunday to record a bogey-free 3-under par 69. This moved her three ahead of the field after she held a 1-shot lead after the first round. It would appear that Jane Rah, Jennifer Johnson and Sydnee Michaels will finish in a tie for 2nd.
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rn“I am very excited with my own play, that’s all I have thought about all day,” said Bristow. “I’m just going to go home, not think about it and relax.”
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rnBristow will sleep on the lead tonight with a few players still left to finish their second round, but the Auckland native will head back to the course in the morning to give her victory speech. “I will jot some things down, you dream about making that speech so I want to do it properly and do it right,” she said.
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