Stacy Lewis has been thinking about the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
She went into the Portland Classic, determined to help, she’ll donate all her winnings to the relief efforts and that may end up as a huge chunk of change.
Lewis has fired round of 70-64-65 and holds a three-shot lead over Moriya Jutanugarn going into Sunday’s finale.
In Gee Chun will start four back.
“I’m motivated, I’m extremely calm and people that know me will tell you that’s not me,” Lewis said after her 65 on Saturday. “It puts things in perspective,” she said of her thoughts on the disaster that has hit the Houston area.
She plans to keep doing what’s worked for her the first three days.
“I’m sticking to what I’ve been doing.”
2 Comments
RM
The PGA Tour must be cringing at Stacy Lewis’ classy decision to donate her winnings this week to the relief efforts. If she holds on to win, we will have a lone LPGA player donating an amount approaching the PGA’s “generous” ante of $250,000.
You mentioned the contributions of several sports organizations and people in a previous column. My son told me last night that Dallas Cowboys players were participating in a telethon of some sort, and that Jerry Jones called in with a pledge of a cool $1,000,000.
Seems like most of the sports world is rising to the occasion, and it’s great to see.
Awesome, Stacy. And sad, PGA.
Tom Edrington
Check the feature coming up on Stacy and her victory, KPMG threw in an additional $195k, total $390,000 and just like that a 120-pound young woman outdoes the PGA Tour.