Healthy Annika 'eyes' ADT title



WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Annika Sorenstam started seeing clearly again Saturday, and the view was quite familiar. The world's best player found herself back at the top of the leaderboard.
Recovered from the eye infection that ailed her the first two days, and playing with both contact lenses, Sorenstam shot 5-under-par 67 to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the ADT Championship.
"I'm 100 percent," she proclaimed after moving to 5-under 211 for the tournament.
It showed on the typically treacherous Trump International Golf Course, which made a few of the world's best look defenseless.
Cristie Kerr (71) and Meg Mallon (72) made it through OK. Both are at 2 under. Se Ri Pak shot a respectable 72 to finish at 215, tied for fourth with Beth Daniel, who shot 68. But the course ate up Pak on one hole -- No. 7, where she hit two balls in the water for a quadruple-bogey 7.
"It was a little disappointing, but there wasn't anything I could do," Pak said.
Nobody had it tougher than second-day co-leader Laura Davies, though. Sky high after driving the green on the short, par-4 sixth and making eagle, Davies made triple-bogey on No. 8, double-bogey on No. 9, and after scratching back into it, blew up by hitting two balls into the water for an 8 on the par-3 17th waterfall hole.
She shot 81 and finished at 7 over.
Asked how she felt after the round, she replied sarcastically: "I'm really happy -- really pleased."
Strong round
Sorenstam is going for her seventh win on tour this year and back-to-back titles at the LPGA Tour's season-ending tournament, limited to the top 30 on the money list. She won the last five tournaments she led going into Sunday, and her improved health is more than just a trivial story line.
For the first time this week, she was able to see the break of the green and get a better gauge on exactly where she needed to aim. She also read her own putts, and avoided the short misses that hurt her Thursday, when she wore only one contact, and Friday, when she didn't wear either.