Mika Miyazato and Soo-Yun Kang are tied for the lead at -17 going into the final round of the final Corning Classic.  Yani Tseng is in third place at -16, Minea Blomqvist is fourth at -15 and six players are tied for fifth at -14 - Seon Hwa Lee, Katherine Hull, Na Yeon Choi, Vicky Hurst, Sandra Gal and Mikaela Parmlid.

If you thought the scoring couldn't possibly get any better than it was the first two rounds, you were dead wrong.  42 of the 73 players scored in the 60s (go back and re-read that bolded sentence).  Miyazato and Tseng each fired an event-record-tying 62 while Hurst put up 63.  Yani tied a Tour record by playing the first nine holes in -8 - a feat accomplished only eight other times, lastly by Sun Young Yoo at last year's State Farm Classic.  Kang "only" posted 65 to move into a tie for the lead.  Only eight players shot worse than even par Saturday and the only one of them in the top 43 is second-round leader Karine Icher, who posted a 74 and fell all the way to T17 - five shots behind the leaders.

To put the low scoring into perspective - Hee-Won Han shot 71 and fell from second place to T11.  Hee Young Park shot 69 and fell from to T20 to T29.  Brittany Lang shot 68 and fell from T26 to T29.  Eunjung Yi tied an LPGA record with three eagles on the day - they all occurred over her first five holes (re-read that sentence again too).  Only four players had ever eagled three times in a round before today.  Natalie Gulbis went out in 29 after birdies at the first six holes.  I'm sure a dozen other players set a personal scoring record today and if I was being paid by the Tour to figure it all out, I would do it but I'm not so inclined at the moment.

Given my usual six-stroke rule entering the final round, approximately 2000 players have a chance to win this thing.  Ok, actually 28 players are in that window.  Miyazato was seven shots out of the lead at the start on Saturday so if you assume that anybody who can shoot 62 tomorrow still has a chance, the number goes up to 34.  The final round should be awesome.

I haven't watched the Saturday TV coverage yet so I will probably have more to add in the morning.  I noticed while leaderboard-watching early this afternoon that hole #2 was particularly vulnerable to the scoring onslaught.  Everybody was at least making birdie there and quite a few eagled the par-5 including Paula Creamer, a player who rarely makes eagle.  Which started me to thinking - did the Corning course supervisor purposely set things up this week - the pin positions, the height of the rough, etc. - to make the final Corning Classic a feast for the players?  Not saying that's a bad thing, but just sayin'...