NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Celine Boutier outlasted Ashleigh Buhai on the twenty eighth gap Saturday within the longest match within the five-year historical past of the T-Cellular Match Play, sending the Frenchwoman to quarterfinals.
The earlier file was 22 holes, set twice.
Boutier confronted Madelene Sagstrom later Saturday. Sagstrom additionally wanted prolonged time, beating Carlota Ciganda in 19 holes.
Second-ranked Jeeno Thitikul routed Nataliya Guseva 8 and seven. Thitikul is the one remaining participant ranked within the prime 10. Seven of the eight within the area have been eradicated Friday on the ultimate day of round-robin play, together with No. 1 and defending champion Nelly Korda.
Thitikul, who’s from Thailand, has maintained a relaxed angle this week as she has dominated her competitors on the treacherous Shadow Creek. She mentioned he had “no thought” why she has performed so properly.
“Simply making an attempt to hit the place my caddie desires me to go,” Thitikul mentioned.
She is going to play Angel Yin, who beat Mao Saigo 3 and a pair of. No. 12 Yin, who’s from Los Angeles, is the highest-ranked participant apart from Thitikul nonetheless within the event.
Within the different round-of-16 matches, Stephanie Kyriacou edged A Lim Kim 2 and 1, Lauren Coughlin beat Sei Young Kim 2-up, Maja Stark simply defeated Brooke Henderson 5 and 4, and Ariya Jutanugarn topped Narin An 1-up.
Within the quarterfinals, Jutanugarn confronted Stark, and Coughlin performed Kyriacou.
Sei Young Kim and Henderson have been the one gamers to not path over the primary three days and now they’re out of the Match Play.
“It’s the hardest course on the earth, in all probability,” Stark mentioned. “It is so agency, so quick, and there are such a lot of instances throughout these rounds the place you simply go, ‘Effectively, I am unable to go in direction of the outlet right here.’ On chips even. You might be 10 meters from the pin, however nonetheless cannot go in direction of the pin. Yeah, just a bit foolish, however it’s an ideal match play course.”
