Maineville, Ohio − Golf has been described as the ultimate mental game. The best players don’t let the pressure get to them, and don’t allow one errant shot to snowball.
World No. 15 Jeeno Thitikul, a 21-year-old from Thailand, looked to be in cruise control Saturday in the third round of the Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G . She was 3-under through the front-9, added a birdie on the par-5 11th hole and when she missed, it was by a microscopic margin.
Nursing a lead atop the leaderboard that ballooned to as many as four strokes Saturday, Thitikul ran into trouble at the end of her round with back-to-back bogeys. She cleaned up those mistakes with a well-timed birdie on the par-5 18th hole to build positive momentum heading into Sunday’s championship round…