China’s Lin Xiyu carded an excellent five-under-par 67 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over Australia’s Hannah Green and South Korea’s Inbee Park heading into the ultimate day of the HSBC Girls’s World Championship in Singapore.
Lin acquired off to a poor begin with a bogey on the primary gap and faltered once more on the seventh, however seven birdies — together with three within the final 4 holes — took her whole to 14-under for the match on the Sentosa Golf Membership.
“I wasn’t actually listening to the leaderboard as a result of to me, the entrance 9 was a little bit sketchy,” Lin stated. “I made two three-putts, bizarre errors and left birdie putts quick.
“So going into the again 9 which I assumed was the more durable 9, I did not actually anticipate to play that nicely however I additionally knew there are nonetheless numerous alternatives, so simply wanted to remain actually affected person. The final couple holes had been unreal.”
Former world No. 1 Park, the in a single day joint-leader, dropped one spot to be tied for second following a disappointing effort after the flip the place had two bogeys earlier than a double-bogey on the 16th for a spherical of 70.
“I nonetheless have a possibility. That is what issues, and I will go on the market tomorrow and attempt to go low,” the 2015 and 2017 champion — who’s within the race to make the South Korean crew for the Olympics — stated.
She was tied with the regular Inexperienced, whose second consecutive spherical of 66 saved her in competition for under a 3rd victory on the LPGA Tour.
The main trio had been adopted by Mexico’s Gaby Lopez in fourth and a gaggle of three — Chun In-gee, Lydia Ko and Ryu So-yeon — sharing fifth.
South Korea’s Park Hee-young, who shared prime spot heading into the third spherical, slipped to tied-21st after her recreation went off the rails on the again 9 for a spherical of 79.
ANA Inspiration winner Patty Tavatanakit of Thailand was tied 11th with British Open champion Sophia Popov after a spherical of 68.