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Hye-Jin Choi carded a 3-under-par 69 on Saturday to take care of a one-stroke lead over fellow South Korean Amy Yang after three rounds on the Buick LPGA Shanghai.
Choi, who’s searching for her first win on the LPGA Tour, recorded 4 birdies on the entrance 9 at Sheshan Golf Membership and moved to 9-under 207 for the match.
‘I hit a very good shot to the pin and I had plenty of birdie possibilities and I made the birdie, in order that’s the rationale I performed (effectively) on the entrance 9,’ Choi mentioned of her early success.
Yang, a six-time LPGA Tour winner, collected seven birdies in opposition to three bogeys to shoot a 68 on Saturday. She is alone in second place at 8-under, one stroke forward of China’s Ruoning Yin (67).
‘I feel I putted very well right now, even higher than yesterday,’ Yang mentioned. ‘I made some errors within the center spherical, however I feel I nonetheless did a very good job total.’
Yin, who had 5 birdies in a bogey-free spherical, admitted she would like to win an LPGA occasion at house.
‘That may — I feel meaning every thing as a result of I needed to win in entrance of the house crowd so unhealthy,’ Yin mentioned. ‘I can get it achieved in 2024 and I hope I can do it once more tomorrow.’
Japan’s Rio Takeda and Spain’s Carlota Ciganda every shot a 71 on Saturday to take a seat in a tie for fourth place, 5 strokes off the tempo.
Alison Lee fired a 67 to vault 18 spots on the leaderboard into sixth place. She recorded six birdies and a bogey on Saturday to get to 2-under.
‘I’d say this course is a beast,’ Lee mentioned. ‘You recognize, this clearly is not certainly one of our main championships, however particularly the primary two days, it undoubtedly was taking part in prefer it. It was taking part in difficult. It was taking part in lengthy. Even among the greens as effectively. You will have lengthy golf equipment into just a few holes the place, I imply, you may’t miss it or else you’ve a excessive probability of constructing a bogey.’
Australian Grace Kim, who entered play on Saturday in a second-place tie with Yang, recorded a 75 within the third spherical.
Defending champion Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand shot a 74 Saturday and sits at even par for the match, tied for ninth.
That is the sixth version of the Buick LPGA Shanghai and the primary on the 6,735-yard Sheshan Golf Membership, which beforehand hosted the HSBC Champions match.
Shanghai is the primary of 4 occasions on the LPGA Tour’s late-season Asian Swing, with upcoming stops in South Korea, Malaysia and Japan.
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