by Australia Minjee Lee challenged the difficult and windy conditions with one by 69 remarkable without Boggey without Bojus on Saturday to take a lead of four strokes on Jeeno Thitikul at the PGA female championship in Texas.
Lee, in pursuit of its third major title, drew three birdies in one of the three towers lower than the word to Fields Ranch East in Frisco, north of Dallas, where arrow temperatures and golfers tested by the wind for a third consecutive day.
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“I’m just trying to stay patient there,” said the 29-year-old after building a total of six under 210. “You can’t get ahead of yourself, especially in these conditions.”
By dragging Jeeno by three to start the day, Lee grabbed her first ninth birdie, where she exploded from a four -foot Greenside bunker and made the putt.
She finally took control of the 14th by five, drilling a 19 -foot Birdie putt as a three -stroke Jeeno for a Bogey who dropped her three strokes.
Lee added a birdie to the 15th and remained Bogey Libre with an 18 -year -old backup – where her second blow ran through green but she chipped three feet.
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“I try to stay in me and play the best as possible,” she said. “I stayed patient, take him as he comes.”
Lee, whose 10 LPGA victories include major titles in the Evian 2021 championship and in 2022 US Women’s Open, said that there would be a lot of work to do on Sunday despite his four -stroke cushion.
“It is only becoming more and more difficult with I think that the pressure from a major championship, and also the route asks you so much,” she said.
The global hopes for the number two of Jeeno of a first major title took a sure blow with the Bogeys in the third and sixth.
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She rolled in a 12 -foot sixth century with eighth, but fell into equality for the head after bogeys following 11 and 12.
She rebounded from her bogey at 14 with a birdie at 15, but put a shot in the 16th, finishing with a four out of 76 for 214.
Lee and Jeeno, both based in the Dallas region, were the only players on before the final round.
The American veteran Lexi Thompson, playing a limited calendar this season, rocked a horrible start to publish one by 75 of three out of 75 to make the front page of the trio sharing third place on one in 217.
Thompson opened with a triple Bogey and a Bogey and added another Bogey to the eighth before bringing two birdies.
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She was joined on one-over by the South Korean Choi Hye-Jin, who corded a 72, and Miyu Yamashita from Japan, who pulled 73.
– No momentum –
The world number one Nelly Korda had five birdies and five bogeys in her peer 72 to make the headlines of four out of 218.
“It’s brutal there with regard to the configuration of the golf course, wind conditions, everything,” said Korda. “I am very happy in the same way.
“You are just happy to get 18 to your credit one day like this,” added the American, who said that having substantial expectations on several t-shirts has only added to the difficulty of the day.
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“You don’t want to spend 20 minutes and go to the next T-shirt, then you have 15 minutes and go up to the next T-shirt and it’s still 15 minutes,” she said. “There is just, like no momentum.”
Korda was tied with Leona Maguire of Ireland, Chisato Iwai from Japan, the South Korean Lee So-Mi and American Yemimi Noh-who had two eagles but also six Bogeys in 74.
The Australian Grace Kim had the bass round of the day, pulling six birdies in an impressive per 68 sous which gave a group of five out of three players out of 219.
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