AFTER a promising start, Bianca Pagdanganan bogged down in the back nine yesterday, firing a 74 to slump into an 11-way tie for 40th place at the start at the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards at the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.
Starting from the front tee, Pagdanganan had a lone birdie on hole No. 6 then had four bogeys in a four-hole stretch from Nos. 11 to 15 over the par 72 7,560-yard desert layout.
She stood eight strokes behind South Korean solo leader Sei Young Kim, who shot a sizzling 66 and took a one-shot lead over Americans Rose Zhang and Danielle Kang in the $2-million tournament offering a top prize of $300,000 (around P16.948 million). — Bong Pedralvez