Sei Younger Kim carded a 3-under-par 69 on Saturday to hold a four-stroke lead heading into the ultimate spherical of the BMW Women Championship in Haenam, South Korea.
Kim benefited from an eagle on the seventeenth gap to focus on an eventful day through which she had 5 birdies towards 4 bogeys at Pine Seashore Golf Hyperlinks.
The Korean broke the 54-hole event scoring document together with her three-day whole of 19-under 197, and he or she is on tempo to interrupt the 72-hole mark of 266, set by Jin Younger Ko and Hee Jeong Lim in 2021 at LPGA Worldwide Busan.
Kim is bidding for her thirteenth LPGA Tour victory of her profession and first since 2020.
She is 4 photographs higher than Yealimi Noh (67 on Saturday) and Japan’s Nasa Hataoka (69).
Kim, nonetheless, stated she shouldn’t be attempting to get forward of herself.
“You simply must take care of the scenario, whichever that you’ve got, in order that’s — I feel that is the homework that I’ve for (Sunday), and it is actually a struggle towards myself,” she stated. “I feel that applies to all sports activities video games. I hope to succeed at that (on Sunday).”
This marks the second time that Kim has led or shared the lead after the primary, second and third rounds of the identical event on the LPGA Tour. She went on to win the opposite event, the 2019 CME Group Tour Championship.
Noh registered six birdies towards one bogey on Saturday to maintain Kim in her sights. The American is hoping to attract off her victory earlier this season on the Founders Cup.
“Simply a lot confidence, confidence that I actually wanted. After which it was an ideal begin to the yr,” Noh stated of that win in February. “Clearly being one of many first occasions, and it simply helped me preserve that momentum and get it again this time of the yr, too.”
American Brooke Matthews (74) triple-bogeyed the par-3 fifteenth gap to fall six strokes again of Kim and right into a tie for fourth place with South Korean Somi Lee (67), France’s Celine Boutier (69) and Japan’s Rio Takeda (72).
Korean A Lim Kim (68) and Sweden’s Linn Grant (69) are tied for eighth at 12-under, one shot forward of defending champion Hannah Inexperienced (68) and fellow Australian Minjee Lee (71).
Korean Haeji Kang withdrew through the third spherical on account of harm.
–Area Degree Media
