SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Esther Henseleit went into the final day of the Olympic women’s golf competition knowing she needed to produce the round of her life.

Seven shots adrift of the leaders, the German was not among the names under consideration in the chase for medals at Le Golf National. There was only one thing she needed to do to enter the conversation – put the pedal down and go low.

So, she did. Henseleit bookended her round with back-to-back birdies to post a seven-birdie 6-under 66, the second-lowest score of the final round, to climb from 20th overnight to…