MIDDLEARD, Michigan — Sarah Schmeltzell and Alban Valenzuela took a third-round lead within the Dow Championship on Saturday, capturing a 2-under 68 in different shot performs to maneuver into the successful place of the primary LPGA Tour.
Schmelzel and Valenzuela headed for the ultimate spherical of Higher-Ball with a 13-under sum on the Midland Nation Cup. They opened on Thursday with an alternate shot 68 and had the very best ball 61 on Friday.
“You are like having a pin and needle all day lengthy and also you need your associate to get in bother,” Schmeltzel mentioned. “It’s extremely stable. It seems like we have been doing actually good all day lengthy. I feel we each took all of the photographs when it got here.”
The crew of Jin Hee Im-Somi Lee (68) and Manon de Roey-Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (69) had a stroke.
“I am very pleased with us,” de Rohe mentioned. “We have been hanging there. We fought to the tip.”
Second spherical leaders after age 60, Jennifer Kupucho and Leona Maguire birded the ultimate two holes of the 72, tied fourth underneath the 11 at Lauren Hartage Brook Matthews (66) and Tune Hyun Park Ina (67). Kupcho received the Lizette Salas in 2022.
“You need to attempt to put up numbers early and see what occurs,” Maguire mentioned. “I feel it was good to see two putts coming in on the finish.”
Lexi Thompson-Megan Kang (68) and Rio Takeda-Miyu Yamasha (67) 10 Underduce.
The defending champions run Inn and Gino Chiticle among the many prime 5 ladies’s world rankings, however underneath 67 have been underneath 9.
Schmerzell and Valenzuela interpreted the ultimate seven holes. They’d 4 birdies and two bogeys within the spherical.
“It seems like we had a extremely good day,” Valenzuela mentioned. “Our purpose at Foursome was to go beneath the couple or get just a little higher. There have been just a few errors. That occurs on this format. We additionally did one thing actually good.”
