By KRISTEL SATUMBAGA
Bianca Pagdanganan staggered with a 5-over-par 77 and slipped into a share of 26th place after the third round of the FM Championship in Norton, Massachussets on Saturday, Aug. 31.
Starting the round six strokes behind second-round leader Ryu Haeran, Pagdanganan found herself trailing new leader Yin Young Ko by 9 after an ominous start that saw her double-bogey once and dropped two more shots in the first seven holes.
She had nines of 39 and 38 for a three-round aggregate of 214.
Ko shot her second straight 67 for 205.
Ryu, like Pagdanganan, lost her bearings and limped home with a 78 to trail Ko by four strokes.
The two-time Olympian somehow recovered by gunning down three birdies, but she again fumbled with bogeys on Nos. 14 and 17, then stumbling with a double bogey on the par-5 18th hole.
Meanwhile, Dottie Ardina shot a second straight 72 to slip at joint 58th with 217.
