SINGAPORE — Australia’s Hannah Inexperienced and Minjee Lee rose to the highest of the leaderboard by one stroke after three rounds of the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship on Saturday.
Inexperienced, the 2019 Ladies’s PGA Championship winner and 2024 Singapore champion, shot a four-under 68 and three-time main champion Lee 69 at Sentosa Golf Membership for a three-round complete of 11-under 205.
American Angel Yin, 68, and South Korea’s Hyeran Ryu, 70, tied for third within the LPGA match.
Within the last group, six gamers had been tied for the lead at 9 underneath par on the eighth gap. Yin made a birdie from off the inexperienced on No. 10 to take the lead for the primary time, forward of fellow American Auston Kim, who had led within the first two rounds.
Kim fell from the lead with back-to-back bogeys on the seventh and eighth holes, however the scenario may have been a lot worse. On the eighth gap, he noticed his ball go off the inexperienced right into a hazard and needed to return to the green for his fifth shot, however to attenuate the injury he sunk a 20-foot putt for bogey.
Kim completed with a 73, tied for sixth place at 8 underneath, three spots behind Inexperienced and Lee.
“You positively must make numerous birdies, however it’s very simple to make bogeys,” Inexperienced stated. “So I feel simply restrict them as a lot as potential.
“I preserve hitting the ball on the greens, so if I can proceed to do this, and despite the fact that I am enjoying with Minjae, we’re good buddies, so I do not need to get too caught up in her scores.”
Ying stated it was an in depth name within the third spherical.
“Good golf and good luck. Actually, there’s nothing you are able to do about it,” Yin stated. “There have been numerous one-hole conditions as we speak, some unbelievable ups and downs. That is ability and luck for me. So I will take my luck and get higher.”
Lee received her first main on the 2021 Evian Championship, her second on the 2022 U.S. Ladies’s Open, and her third on the Ladies’s PGA Championship final yr.
Prime-ranked Gino Titikul, who received final week’s match in his native Thailand, shot a 70 on Saturday to remain at 3 underneath. She was tied with defending champions Lydia Ko and Brooke Henderson, who shot 71s every, eight strokes away from the main Australian.
The 72-player no-cut match is the second of three early LPGA Asian Video games, with the ultimate one to be held on China’s Hainan Island subsequent week.
