Carlota Ciganda suffers her biggest nightmare

Carlota Ciganda started the third round of the T-Mobile Match Play in Las Vegas as a co-leader, aiming to maintain her position at the top and secure a spot among the top eight players who would compete for the title in direct elimination matches starting from the quarterfinals. However, the Spanish golfer experienced one of her worst nightmares.

Carlota Ciganda, results

Ciganda struggled with a round of 85 strokes, thirteen over par. She dropped to 32nd place with a total of 225 strokes (+9).

The cut for the top eight was set with Irish player Leona Maguire (210), Japanese player Minami Katsu, and American players Angel Yin and Rose Zhang (213), South Korean player Sei Young Kim (214), American player Nelly Korda (2015), South Korean player Narin An (216), Thai player Moriya Jutanugarn, South Korean player Hae Ran Ryu, Canadian player Brooke Henderson, and Japanese player Yuka Sao (218).

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