No live TV coverage + dreary weather in the Southeast on Memorial Day Sunday = live leaderboard blogging of the final ever round of the Corning Classic.  The final group goes off at 1pm but the early groups are continuing the lights-out theme of the first three days.  Alena Sharp has already finished with a 66, Sun Young Yoo is -7 on the day through 17 and Beth Bader is -4 on the day (-12 overall down by five shots) through 7.  Brittany Lang eagled 2 and birdied 3 and now stands -13, four out of the lead.  Stay tuned!

11:35am - Soo-Yun Kang has not finished in the Top 10 since 2006 (9th at Mitchell TOC).  Mikaela Parmlid has only two Top 10s in her six seasons on Tour (T9 at '08 Longs is her best).  Back to the action...Becky Morgan birdied her first two holes to reach -13 T11.  The players who start the day within six of the lead are just now beginning to tee off.

11:45am - Lang birdies 5 to reach -14, three out of the lead.  Jiyai Shin eagles 5 to go -13, four back.

12:40pm - Jimin Jeong is one shot out of the lead at -16 due to birdies at 2, 3, 4 and 6.  Song-Hee Kim is also -16 thanks to birdies at 2, 4, 5 and 6.  Meena Lee is making a run - she's -14 through 7 because of birdies at 3, 5 and 7.  Here's the leaderboard:

-17  Mika Miyazato, Soo-Yun Kang

-16  Yani Tseng, Jeong, SH Kim

-15  Minea Blomqvist

-14  12 players

12:50pm - Golf Channel just ran a promo for the Corning coverage to start at 6:30 tonight, not 7 as originally posted.  Be sure to tune in half an hour early!  Na Yeon Choi eagled 2 (ho-hum...) to reach -16.  Paula Creamer and Sandra Gal have climbed to -15.  The leaders haven't started and this is already getting wild.

12:58pm - Jeong birdies 8 to tie for the lead at -17.  She's -5 on the day.  With only one Top 10 in 20 career starts, could she somehow keep this going?  Suzann Pettersen birdies 5 to reach -15 and Ai Miyazato birdies 4 to do the same.

1:05pm - OMG, Bogeys!!  Choi bogeyed 3, falls to -15.  Tseng bogeys 1 and falls to -15.

1:15pm - Jeong may have answered my question very quickly.  A bogey at the tough 9th drops her out of the lead tie.  Mika Miyazato already has a Top 10 finish in her rookie season - sixth place at Thailand.  She's only missed one cut in seven starts but she starts her day with a bogey.  Ai Miyazato birdies 5 and Gal birdies 4, both now at -16.  The board looks like this:

-17  Kang

-16  Mika M, Ai M, Jeong, SH Kim, Gal

-15  Pettersen, Creamer, Tseng, Choi, Parmlid, V Hurst, Hull

-14  10 players

1:20pm - Back on track - Tseng eagles 2 and jumps into a tie for the lead with Kang at -17.  Likewise, Blomqvist bogeyed 1 and eagled 2 to reach -16.  Jeong falling back, bogey at 10 -15.

1:25 - Choi birdies 5, -16.  Gal eagles 5 to reach -18 and the lead.  Tseng birdies 3, also -18 and tied for the lead.  14 players within three shots, 26 within four.

1:30 - Kangsy birdies 2 to create a three-way tie for the lead.  Two-shot gap back to fourth place -16.  Live-blogging this gets rather frantic!  Ai-chan birdies 7 to go -17, one shot back.

1:35 - Song-Hee birdies 11, reaching -17.  Parmlid birdies 5, now -16.  The sun came out here and my wife wants to go play golf.  Too late for that now!  Pettersen birdies 9 to go -16.

1:45 - Vicky Hurst birdies 5 to reach -16.  Jeong birdies 12, also -16.  Buddah sighting - Seon Hwa Lee birdies 5 and 6, now she's -16 too. 

1:55 - 26 rounds of 70 or higher have already been posted and with nobody threatening 62 yet, it looks like yesterday's average of 69.08 won't be challenged.  Ai-chan bogeys 8 and falls two shots back of the lead.  Pettersen bogeys 10 to fall three back.  Birdies at 10 and 12 bring Helen Alfredsson into the picture.  Song-Hee birdies 12 to create a four-way tie for the lead.  Parmlid birdies 7 to reach -7.  Here's the current board:

-18  SH Kim, Tseng, Gal, Kang

-17  Parmlid

-16  SH Lee, Choi, Ai M, Mika M, Hurst, Blomqvist, Jeong

-15  Pettersen, Creamer, Alfredsson, Hull

2:00 -  Ai bogeys again, at 9 to fall three shots back.  Of the rounds completed, Yoo's 65 and Sharp's 66 still lead the way.  67 is a popular number, with Momoko Ueda and Michelle Wie posting that number to currently stand T26.

2:05 - Gal bogeys 8 to fall out the lead pack.  Creamer birdies 10 to reach -16.  Pettersen's second straight bogey at 11 drops her to -14 and virtually out.  Hull birdies 7 to go -16.  Kangsy birdies 5 to go -19 and take sole possession of first.

2:13 - Parmlid bogeys 8 (a familiar theme today), falls to -16.  Gal bogeys 9 (another familiar theme) and also drops to -16.  11 players are tied for fourth.

2:20 - One of those 11, Mika Miyazato is +1 on the day through 6.  She is the only player currently in the Top 20 who is not under par for the day.  Jeong parred 13 and 14 - still -16 but running out of holes.  In a better but similar situation, Song-Hee Kim is only one shot behind but she has only four holes left.  Kang still has 12 holes remaining and Tseng has 11 to go.

 2:30 - Spoke too soon about Mika - she birdies 7 to go -17, down by two.  Angela Stanford coming out of nowhere - birdies at 10, 14 and 16 move her into the logjam at -16, now tied for fifth.

2:45 - Hurst birdies 9 to reach -17.  Natalie Gulbis and Alfredsson join the mob at -16 with birdies at 14 and 15 respectively.  Jeong bogeys 16 to end her hopes.  Time to update the board:

-19  Kang

-18  SH Kim, Tseng

-17  Hurst, Mika M

-16  Hull, SH Lee, Parmlid, Gal, Choi, Ai M, Creamer, Gulbis, Alfreddson, Stanford

2:50 - Hurst birdies 10 to reach -18, down by one.  Song-Hee bogeys 16 to go down by two (won't be easy to recover with only two holes to play).  Mika birdies 9 to create a three-way tie for second at -18.  Kang reaches -20 with a birdie at the difficult 9th.  Two-shot lead going to the back nine.

I'm going to close this post and start another to blog the final nine holes.