Watch highlights of Singapore’s Shannon Tan’s second round from Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club including a stunning chip in birdie.
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Shannon Tan’s t- shot on the par 4 3155 M par 4 or 318 is it five first she’s a great story moved over to Australia I think at the age of 14 just said to her parents I want to be a golfer but you got to move me to Australia and to her
Parents credit it’s all about sacrifices that parents make they did her dad actually got a graduate depler in I think it was golf management so he understood the golfing World better talk about high Achievers that’s crazy who struggling to make the cut um you’ve got runner up in 2022 to MAA Stark fellow
Swed Johanna gustavson she’s at six over as well so we’ve seen players who have performed well at this tournament including a two-time back-to-back winner in Megan McLaren who is all intents and purposes looking like she’ll probably miss the cut just coming up a little shy there for
Shannon T going to be so interested to watch this young lady play today because she has an enormous amount of talent yeah and uh she has done some incredible played all yesterday Sam and the first good chunk of hours this morning maybe three or four without any Breeze and I
Can tell you that this course’s defense is the breezes that blow here regularly and it’s just starting to get up here from the north Northeast which is the traditional sort of Summer Breeze here so from 109 she’s probably playing a bit further than that at the moment and
She’s just come up short of a big Ridge in the middle of the green otherwise it might have fed down to the flag but not a bad shot but uh just a few meters short into on the back left so it’s not going to be the easiest
Big swinging po it won’t be the easiest of reads and also the pace big big swinging part here from right to left and it’s all about the pace cuz it’s downhill for the majority of the journey here Sandy oh you can see how much turn that looked like it was mentioned a minute
Ago today of 143 the pin was at the front right yesterday and it’s at the back middle today and I can tell you like most of these whole severe drop offs off the back of the green and with the wind behind that’s the big danger and we’re just about to see that danger
Come to life wow that was a huge bounce that talk the green is very firm up the back there and not giv herself a lot of room with that PIN so far back she yeah she’s got a decent lie though fortunately here only about 10 m to the
Flag get in go go on don’t yes indeed you’re kidding me well that wasn’t such a hard shot Mark that was there was always two in that Sandy I thought wow that is well that’s a b I mean that’s such a bonus and especially a talent hand has taking on a lot of
That bunker running along the right hand side of this green she’s got a great lie too so she’s got 99 M of a perfect lie and one meter either way and it’s a totally different shot cuz it rolls out in five different directions but 10 from 99
M and the upside that’s a great shot easiest of the three this might be the easiest PCH you’ll have all day this is dead straight uphill if anything and not much to it at all this is a a fantastic position for Tan to I guess continue the momentum of that
Magnificent shoty hold for birdie back on the third oh just letting that leak to the right and should be disappointed in that that was a great opportunity to come back with one of the pros here at magenta Shores and I think they’re really working into something i’ got
That feeling and I do think also that Shannon Tanny has to settle herself up that hole that rattled her a bit I reckon looking at her eyes can just at on think she’s okay oh nice bit of spin on that backs flag that’s very very good the bounceback shot is a is a
Factor in golf Sandy how big B factor is it do you think that the very next shot you play after suffering a disappointing hole or a disappointing shot the bounceback shot oh can be a game changer absolutely if you can always well it’s it’s such a crucial requirement
Especially in in women’s golf even more so than men accuracy is what probably separates the product itself of women’s golf from the men’s golf are all going for distance and length and all that kind of stuff but what is the real feature of women’s golf is accuracy and
If you want to make it on the very best tours Shannon Tan’s birdie P here got it that’s the bounce back factor and she gets the shot back that she gave up oh God this is really going to be so difficult because I’ve got to I’m never going to have the same shot
I’m never going to have a even if I hit every Fairway middle I’m never going to have the same shot from hole to Hole so embracing that challenge of having to think back through every single technique that you’ve learned and uh that you have to adjust that you have to make
And it’s manufacturing it it’s being able to come up with something that might not always be but for now this is all Shannon tan and it’s a green light flag all the way what she hit she’s nipped it nicely oh wow that is one very very nice shot her regular caddy Rob
So this from relatively long range it will have its issues humps and Hollows and swes Big Break to her right as it loses speed oh wow that was a very even on those long puts and this is a good indicator because she’s left herself the
Ideal power P here just 2T up the hill just not happy and comfortable some Er now there’s an aerobatics plane flying above us over this beautiful entrance Coastline here Sandy so she just backed away to make herself comfortable and she knocks in a par part so that’s a good
Result so to be looking at those power five’s right that’s where I need to make my birdies and she’s gone on and made Seven other birdies for the day so that will be disappoint pointing as we watch Shannon tan t-shot at nine as we said a
Few times she’s at 500 at the moment in a tie for eight if the putter can catch up to where the rest of her game seems to be then she might be able to mount a challenge in the the more testing afternoon conditions and that is a fine
Drive just has found the center of the Fairway yeah and she’s got 130 4 M Sandy and if anything a backboard to help get this ball to stop when it lands too so she’s got a uh an unusually direct number to fly this ball and have it stop so
134 Breeze off the left and into a little bit but she flared that to the right just a tad no like that’s not just just a tiny Tad maybe just a tiny Tad further left down this hill um she’d be in a world of pain it’s
Actually going to be Shannon tan to play from the right R first just another awkward still well too far out to get home into sorry Sandy no I was just saying she’s got a got the Sandy lie here on the UPS slow balls above her feet so
Just needs to get this back into play and she’s hit a Top Spin forehand down the line it’s going to keep running which is probably a good result Cu uh it’s back in the middle of the Fairway still gaining distance but not her best strike based on the wind and the
Hill I’d say that looks like it’s got more legs thanks Hy in in Flight he’ve CAU it brilly and that’s just exactly what the doctor ordered into that wind again she’s giv herself five or six feet here Sandy and it’s fairly much downhill but fairly straight as well that’s massive for
Justice puts at eight under in a tie for third with Brony law second birdie of the day get back to even for her round Shannon tan oh and the the continuation of those little blocks to the right there Sam unfortunately just hasn’t overcome that yet and that’s a costly Miss she’s made
A couple of decent putts today but she’s missed I’d say three really short 30 tries now yeah definitely with Shannon tan getting caught in the long grass yeah and I think there was a a shot 10 yeah on I think there was a shot as that one just leaks past to the to
The again to the right hand side which has been the story of her putting day there was also the adjudication that needed to occur when she was in the bunker yeah so they’ve lost a bit of ground but but then it puts pressure on now because they obviously are a good hole
So they need to put their roller skates on a little bit it’s actually interesting guys because um it’s not rude from the other players but they’ve actually jumped up ahead onto the 13th T already to be in position when when tan hits this putt in hopefully but they they’re in position
Ready to go to try and make up a bit of this time and she cleans up there’ll be many it’ll be furiously Tweeting or some somewhere on social media so third hle in one that we’ve had as we’re seeing Shannon Tan on 13 now the scene of Brony LS Hall in one
We’re on the path for 14th hole 318 M on her playing Partners so we stand there thinking oh come on just get a club and hit it yeah I think that’s doubly so Sandy because I don’t think it mattered what club she chose as long as it got out
Over the Bunker’s lip it was never going to make the green so she’s going to be playing next as well I just on the golf course had the best time like we just virtually the whole way around and I don’t know why or what it was with Joan
But she was my one player didn’t concentrate very well with her cuz we had such a good laugh but there’s not a bad shot just beyond the flag so this is four par and this is still all of 15 ft Sandy in coming from her left and back down
The hill as well when it dieses quite a bit of the hole there as well so it’s going to be another drop shot for Shannon 10 now that’s going plused about it all to an extent but then at the same time you can just see the like the frustration like you really
What have I got to do spending a fair bit of time in the sand is Shannon tan and this is another really tricky one from a fairway out here yeah she’s got to give this a fair lash but she’s probably got the stick to get this there from 95 probably not helping
The wind in her face though and it’s going to come up just shy bit of work to do here hazy almost a flat one yeah almost a flat one Sam only from 10t it’s a good roll yeah no problem there it’s been a real mixed bag for Shannon tan today
She had a little bit of everything and she doesn’t like that one oh reck she’s found the same spot as Justice BOS from 10 ft here beautifully hold p and a little fist pump too from Shannon tan yeah that that’s two impressive po Huts made on the last couple of holes
For Shannon tan they weren’t gimmies by any straight Sandy no absolutely not and uh very talented young player from Singapore initially Shannon tan here a couple of clutch pass saves she’s really gone after that almost spun herself around and has got every bit of it on the right hand side that’ll work nicely
Back towards the corridor Justice bosio did Birdie the father 11th and the
