DALY CITY, Calif. — Lake Merced Golf Club is a tough test every year the LPGA arrives here, but the hole locations this week are giving it an even more brutish edge.
Thick rough, pinched fairways in the landing areas and bone-chilling winds have all made scoring difficult this week.
So, in particular, have so many hole locations cut on the edges of greens that are firming up quickly.
“Yeah, they’re pretty tough,” Bronte Law said after putting up a 3-over-par 75 that left her tied for 20th. “When you take them that close to the edges, on greens that have firmed up, with pins on slopes, you are really having to work hard for pars.