SINGAPORE (AP) — Australians Hannah Green and Minjee Lee rose to the top of the leaderboard by one stroke after three rounds of the HSBC Women’s World Championship on Saturday.

green, 2019 Women’s PGA Championship Winner The 2024 Singapore champion shot a 4-under 68 at Sentosa and three-time major champion Lee 69 for a three-round total of 11-under 205. golf club.

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American Angel Yin, 68, and South Korea’s Hyeran Ryu, 70, tied for third in the LPGA tournament.

In the final group, six players were tied for the lead at 9 under par at the 8th hole. Yin made a birdie from off the green on No. 10 to take the lead for the first time, ahead of fellow American Auston Kim, who had led in the first two rounds.

Kim fell from the lead with back-to-back bogeys on the 7th and 8th holes, but the situation could have been much worse. On the eighth hole, he saw his ball go off the green into a hazard and had to return to the fairway for his fifth shot, but to minimize the damage he sunk a 20-foot putt for bogey.

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Kim finished with a 73, tied for 6th place at 8 under, three behind Green. Mr. Lee.

“You definitely have to make a lot of birdies, but it’s very easy to make bogeys,” Green said. “So I think just limit them as much as possible.

“I keep hitting the ball on the greens, so if I can continue to do that, and even though I’m playing with Minjae, we’re good friends, so I don’t want to get too caught up in her scores.”

Ying said it was a close call in the third round.

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“Good golf and good luck. Honestly, there’s nothing you can do about it,” Yin said. “There were a lot of one-hole situations today. I had some unbelievable ups and downs. That’s skill and luck for me. So I’m going to take my luck and get better.”

Lee won her first major at the 2021 Evian Championship and her second at the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open. her third At last year’s Women’s Professional Golf Championship.

Top-ranked player Gino Titikul won the tournament. last week’s tournament In his home country of Thailand, he shot a 70 on Saturday and was 3 under. She tied with the defending champion Lydia Coe Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., each shot a 71, eight strokes behind the leading Australian.

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The 72-player no-cut tournament is the second of three early LPGA Asian Games, with the final one to be held on China’s Hainan Island next week.

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