Avani Prashanth shot a third straight under par round but stIll slipped to 11th at the 2024 Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific Championships (WAAP) at Pattaya, Thailand.
Avani now has rounds of 68-69-71 and is 8-under for 54 holes and placed 11th in the strong field.
Her third round had two birdies and one bogey and one of the birdies was from the bunker, where she holed her shot.
The leader is Chinese Taipei’s Chun-wei Wu (66) at 18-under and she was followed by Rianne Mikhaela Malixi from the Philippines, who had an eagle on the Par-5 10th.
India’s Saanvi Somu, just 15, and playing her first WAAP, shot 75 and is tied 48th. Saanvi had two birdies against five bogeys.
Avani did not have a great day with her iron play and left long birdie putts, most of which she was unable to convert.
She said, “I hit probably every fairway, but my approaches were just either too long or too short. Everything in the line of the pin, which is very frustrating. I couldn’t convert after hitting it that far off. Otherwise, it’s a good thing that I hit all the fairways. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better, and I’ll just go work on my approaches now.”