Frisco, Texas- Two-time leading champion Minjee Lee took an edge with the first bogie-free round for someone during a Windy week at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, which to transfer four strokes ahead of Jeeno Thaitikul in 3-U-Under 69 on Saturday in the third round.
Lee took Lee to 6-Eorm 210 after launching the round three strokes behind Thaitikul, who was the world’s number 2-ranked player, who led alone at the end of each of the first two days.
Lee, the Australian who lives in nearby Erving, exposed the 405-yard 12th with 2-foot equal, when Thaitikul held his second consecutive bogie, and on the fourth place of the day on the way of 76.
Outside the Seattle, away from trees and steady Sahali where the female PGA was last year, the Fields Winch in PGA FILCO is very much open and sometimes the current is in contact with the current Texas air which was the strongest throughout the week. On Saturday, there were more than 30 mph gust, with the same forecast for the final round. The temperature was again in the mid -90s.
The world’s top-ranked player Nelly Corda described the situations as “just cruel” after her time of 72, which began with a back-to-back bogie, but ended with two shirts under the stretch. He had five Birds and five bogies and ranks sixth from 218 to 218.
Lee and Thaitikul were still only players. Lexi Thompson (75), after the start of Triple-Yogi, finished third for 1 over with Hi Jin Choi (72) and Miyu Yamashita (73).
Thiticul near the 172 -yard, Para -3 eighth hole was the only Burde of 78 players, which usually plays downwards and where only 29% of the T shots remain in green color throughout the week. He was the first of the 13-foot Bird day and found it under two strokes from Lee, below 5.
But Thaitikul’s leadership went backwards after a back-to-back bogie. He gave 383-yard 11th position equal to the last 4 feet of the hole, this week his first missed within 5 feet. Then in the 417-yard 12th hole, her drive went into a penalty area correctly, and proceeded to Lee.
Lee, who won the 2022 US Women Open and 2021 AIG Women Open, was stable on Saturday with eight consecutive purses before the 4-Foot Birds in the 487-Ninth Hole. Its other Birds 515-yard had 18-feet, par-5 14th and bunker-sun 236-yard par 4 in the 15th hole 1 1/2-Foot.
Thaitikul made his third bogie in a four-hal stretch when the number of 50 feet was three on 14.
Semi-Returred Thompson hit his tea shot in the Fairway on the 517-to-final group, in the 517-to-final group, which was a 207-yard drive in the air. But he topped his second shot, which went away only 117 yards away, indicating his caddy that the wind had balanced him, and then shook his next shot to the right, a ball that never got to penalty on the way to the triple bogie. He chased the other hole with another bogie, but had only one bogie in two birdies and the rest of the way.
Thompson, playing in 16 tournaments this season only for the seventh time, won his only head in the 2014 Craft Nabisco Championships, but since 2013, Major has the highest number of his 13 top -five finishes in Major by any player and among the 20 top -10 finishes in those events.
LPGA Ruki Rio Tekida opened with a bogie 6 in the first hole after starting the round tied with Lee for the second place. Later Tekida had a pair of double bogies, including 315 -yard para -4 7th hole, where her drive was a wound in the upper face of the Green resides, which left her with a strange trend and unable to get the ball out in the first attempt.
Grace Kim had the best phase of the day with 68 which included six birds and two bogies, proceeding from a tie for the 68th for the 10th. Minaji Lee and Andrea (71) had only other under-legs rounds.
Kim, out of 11 players, who arrived in the weekend on the 7-over cut, moved away from the first hole, six hours before the final group of Thatikul and Lee, locally at 6:55 am.
Even there was a hole-in-one, Brynna was adding the 150-yard fourth hole. This was the third in the last four years in women’s PGA.