Kung & Han share lead into final round

Just wait until Candie Kung finds the range with her putter.

Kung missed seven birdie putts inside 15 feet and still put together a 3-under-par 69 Saturday that gave her a share of the lead with Hee-Won Han through two rounds of the Wendy's Championship for Children.

"I couldn't get the ball close today," Kung said. "I could get it inside 15 feet, but not close enough for birdies."

Kung's 69 left her at 11-under 133. She opened with a career-best 64 Friday, her 22nd birthday.

Han, second a year ago at the Wendy's to Mi Hyun Kim, followed a 67 with a bogey-free 65.

Ohio native Michele Redman eagled her final hole to set the course record with a 63 and move into third place at 10 under.

Former winners Wendy Ward (2001) and Lori Kane (2000) were in a group at 8 under. Ward had a 67, Kane and Scotland's Catriona Matthew each shot 68, and Jill McGill 69.

Heavy fog caused a delay of 1 hour, 15 minutes for morning groups. In the afternoon, threatening weather resulted in a 52-minute suspension.

"We heard some rumbles as we were coming down 17 and we said, 'Oh, no, not that again,"' Ward said.

Kung, a native of Taiwan who went to Southern Cal and now lives in California, built her lead to three shots with a lob wedge to 3 feet for birdie at the par-5 11th hole. But her first bogey of the tournament came on the next hole, when she hit her approach into the water. She salvaged the bogey by taking a drop from 166 yards out and hitting to 3 feet again.

A 4-foot birdie putt on the last hole got her to 11 under, where she was matched by Han moments later.

Han birdied three of the final four holes. She rolled in a 20-footer at the par-3 15th, then made a pair of 8-foot putts on the closing holes.

Both Kung and Han are seeking their second wins of the year.

Redman hit a long drive on the par-5 ninth hole - her final hole - leaving her a perfect angle to the green. She gripped a 7-wood and the ball rolled past the cup and came to rest 3 feet away. She tapped in for the eagle.

"I hit my irons so good today," said Redman, who hails from Zanesville, about 60 miles away from the course. "I was rarely more than 15 feet away from the hole all day. I mean, I hit it great."

Young-A Yang climbed the leaderboard with a career-low 64 -- 10 shots better than her opening round -- and was at 6 under.

The biggest surprise of the day came at the ninth green. As Lisa Kiggens completed a 75 and missed the cut, she couldn't figure out why TV cameras were following her.

"I was a million over, so I knew something was going on," she said.

Moments after hitting her par putt, her attention was drawn to the leaderboard next to the green. In 3-foot high letters were the words, "Lisa, Will You Marry Me? Robb."

Kiggens' part-time caddie and boyfriend, Robb D'Amore, then dropped to one knee and proposed to the 12-year touring pro.

Kiggens cried as she said "Yes" and hugged him.

"I talked to her dad last week. I was going to try to do something this weekend but I hadn't planned on doing it on a golf course," said D'Amore, who met Kiggens during a pro-am at the Corning tour stop in May of 2002. "But it worked out pretty well."

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