With four holes to play late Sunday afternoon at Carnoustie, Nanna Koerstz Madsen was all alone atop the AIG Women’s Open leaderboard.
About an hour later, she must’ve felt like she was alone.
As Anna Nordqvist cozied a birdie putt to within inches of the hole on the par-4 18th to set up a major-winning tap-in, Madsen was just trying to get out of the way. A few shots earlier, she had fanned a long iron into a downhill lie in a greenside bunker right of the green, barely clearing Barry Burn, and then proceeded to shank her third shot nearly out of play.