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It was, however, a round more akin to a roller coaster ride than a pleasant walk for the young Victorian gun around the spectacular Bonville layout.<\/p>\n
When Bunque made a two-metre eagle putt on the par-5 14th at Bonville Golf Resort, she had raced out to a three-shot lead.<\/p>\n
Her next three holes made for interesting reading; bogey, birdie, and a rinsed tee shot on the signature 17th for an ill-timed double bogey.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, a timely par was still enough for Bunque to finish the day with a one-shot lead from South Australian Kristalle Blum.<\/p>\n
Bunque admitted the late mistakes were \u201cunfortunate\u201d but was still happy to be holding the lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe double on 17 was an untimely bad shot. I did hit a couple of weird shots throughout the round, so the one on 17 wasn\u2019t something that I hadn\u2019t experienced earlier in the day so at the end of the day it was kind of an untimely error which was a bit unfortunate but four-under is still a pretty tidy round,\u201d Bunque said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was an eagle in there and a few putts dropped when they probably shouldn\u2019t have and a few putts missed when they probably shouldn\u2019t have so at the end of the day it was a good day, I\u2019m happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blum started her day in tremendous fashion with a birdie on the 1st hole.<\/p>\n
It was a hole that more than a third of the field recorded a bogey or worse on, but Blum\u2019s laser-like 8-iron approach helped set her up for a good day.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn a hole like that you sort of feel like that (a birdie) is good, let\u2019s try and keep it going from there,\u201d Blum said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always feel better when you make a birdie early and that sort of hole you\u2019d be happy to walk off with par every day of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blum made a further three birdies throughout the day, including the 13th hole, which meant she birdied the two holes that had given her the most trouble in the past.<\/p>\n
Danni Vasquez, Breanna Gill, New Zealander Wenyung Keh, Ella Scaysbrook and 15-year-old amateur Ann Jang all recorded rounds of 70 to be tied for third place just two strokes behind the leader.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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