Sunday, Jun. 6 Notebook: Pak not ready to surrender Associated Press WEST POINT, Miss. -- Even after a 2-over 74 on Saturday that dropped her 11 strokes behind the leader, Si Re Pak isn't ready to give up her reign as U.S. Women's Open champion. "No, not yet. Open not over. I have 18 holes left, who knows. Somebody could shoot low score. It could be me," Pak, the 21-year-old South Korean, said after her worst round at Old Waverly Golf Club. "One more day ... I still have chance." Aside from bogeys at Nos. 2 and 5, Pak had pars the rest of the way Saturday. Pak, who beat Jenny Chuasiriporn in a 20-hole playoff for last year's Open title, opened this year's tournament with rounds of 67 and 71. Since following her U.S. Women's Open championship with two victories last July, Pak hasn't had won or even had a top 10 finish. Lucky bounce Karrie Webb got a lucky bounce at No. 18 on Saturday. Hitting a 5-iron out of the rough about 169 yards from the pin, Webb thought she had left the ball short. Instead, it barely caught the edge of a brick wall bulkhead separating the green from Lake Waverly. "It was a lucky break. You know, sometimes you get those, sometimes you don't," Webb said. "I was really just trying to fly through the front of the green to try and carry that trap. Just really didn't come at it cleanly at all and thought it was in the water pretty much the whole way." The ball bounced high off the brick, over the bunker fronting the green and rolled into the fringe on the opposite side. She chipped within 4 feet and saved par to finish with a 4-under 68. Webb is at 8 under for the championship, seven strokes off the lead. Playing, sight unseen Before the U.S. Women's Open started, Lori Kane had never played the last five holes at Old Waverly Golf Club. It obviously hasn't affected her through three rounds. At 11-under 205, Kane is tied with Kelli Kuehne for second place, four strokes behind Juli Inkster. Kane has played holes No. 14 through 18 in 5 under this week. She was bogey free through that stretch until getting to No. 17, a 183-yard par-3, on Saturday. Kane had planned to play just nine holes each of the first two days after getting to West Point and then play 18 holes on Wednesday, the day before the first round. "My clubs didn't arrive until Monday late, so the nine holes was out. I stuck with my game plan because I wanted to get more rest," Kane said. After playing nine holes Tuesday, rain and lightning delays Wednesday limited Kane to just 13 holes. She then walked the last five holes, and played them for the first time in the first round. One big supporter Kelli Kuehne had some big support during the third round. Her fiancee, Jay Humphrey, was in the gallery. And he wasn't hard to pick out of the crowd. Humphrey is a 6-foot-7, 300-pound offensive tackle from Texas who was drafted in April by the Minnesota Vikings. Amateur aces Amateur champion Grace Park enters the final round of the Women's Open tied for 10th, even after a 1-over 73 on Saturday. The 20-year-old Park, who is playing her final tournament as an amateur, earned a full exemption into the Open as only the second player ever to win golf's three major women's amateur titles in the same year. Park is at 6 under, five strokes off the lead. The only other amateur to make the cut, Kellee Booth, shot a 2-under 70 Saturday and is even through 36 holes. Pak and Booth were the only of 12 amateurs in the Open to make the cut. Fellow Aussies Five Australians made the cut at the U.S. Women's Open. Only one, Wendy Doolan, wasn't paired with a fellow Aussie during the third round. Mardi Lunn and Alison Munt, who both started at 1 under, were grouped together. Webb and Rachel Hetherington, both at 4 under, played in another group. Webb had the best day by an Aussie with a 4-under 68, while Hetherington had a 76. Munt shot a 71, three strokes better than Lunn. Doolan shot a 73. Talk about up-and-down rounds Maria Hjorth has U.S. Women's Open best 17 birdies, one more than leader Juli Inkster, but Hjorth is 11 strokes off the lead at 4-under 212 after three rounds. In addition to her birdies, Hjorth has 11 bogeys and a double bogey. Inkster, on the other hand, has had just one bogey, that at No. 3 during the second round. On Saturday, Hjorth countered seven birdies with three bogeys and a double bogey to finish with a 2-under 70. That followed rounds of 73 and 69.

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