RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Ai Miyazato buried a 12-foot birdie putt at the 18th to close out her round Thursday at the ANA Inspiration and for a moment it felt like the clocks in the Coachella Valley rolled back.
With Miyazato’s name atop that giant wooden scoreboard at Mission Hills’ Country Club’s Dinah Shore Course, it felt like 2010 again.
With a 5-under-par 67, Miyazato walked off the course as the sole leader in the year’s first major championship.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Miyazato’s name was practically a fixture atop LPGA leaderboards.