Hannah Inexperienced is in competition to win a fourth LPGA Tour occasion after rocketing up the leaderboard throughout the third spherical of the Ladies’s World Championship in Singapore.
Inexperienced fired a second straight 5-under-par 67 at Sentosa Golf Membership to soar from a share of ninth place to outright second coming into Sunday’s closing spherical.
At 8-under, Inexperienced, who received the 2019 Ladies’s PGA Championship, trails Japanese chief Ayaka Furue by two pictures after amassing six birdies and dropping her solely shot of the spherical on the par-four eleventh gap.
Furue carded a 68 to maneuver to 10-under and overtake enjoying companion and third-round chief Céline Boutier of France, who may solely handle an even-par 72 within the third spherical.
World quantity three Boutier, who stays an out of doors probability of claiming the world primary rating if she wins, shares third with American Andrea Lee (67).
Koreans Jin Younger Ko (66) and Hye-Jin Choi (69), Taiwan’s Peiyun Chien (70) and Japan’s Nasa Hataoka (70) are in a four-way tie for fifth at 6-under.
Runner-up on this occasion three years in the past, Inexperienced shouldn’t be the one Australian within the combine.
Grace Kim birdied 5 of her first six holes on Saturday in a spherical of 67 to climb to 4-under in a share of twelfth place.
However Steph Kyriacou slumped from joint fourth to equal twenty eighth at even-par following a disappointing third-round 76.
World quantity 4 Minjee Lee (72) is one shot additional again in her first match of the 12 months.
Minjee and Min Woo Lee will seem on Australian Story on Monday at 8pm AEDT on ABC TV, ABC iview and YouTube.
AAP