SAMMAMISH, Wash. — Amy Yang shot a 1-under 71 on Saturday to take a two-shot lead into the ultimate spherical of the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship as she chases her first main victory.
Yang was at 7-under 209 at Sahalee Nation Membership, remaining regular across the greens on the tree-lined course that requires utmost accuracy and precision.
“I grew up watching so many nice gamers prior to now, and I noticed them profitable all the most important championships, “Yang mentioned. “I dreamed about taking part in out right here due to them. I work arduous for this.
That is Amy Yang’s seventy fifth profession main begin.
In her earlier 74, she’s notched 21 top-10s, together with 12 top-5s. She owns two runners-up and a 3rd on the U.S. Ladies’s Open and has completed T-4 or higher in each main however the Evian.
She leads by two getting into Sunday at Sahalee.
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“It’ll imply loads, however we nonetheless received 18 extra holes on the market and that’s a whole lot of golf left for main championship.”
The 34-year-old South Korean participant has 5 LPGA Tour victories, the final in November within the Tour Championship.
Lauren Hartlage and Miyu Yamashita have been tied for second at 5 underneath.
Hartlage shot her second straight 69 for the one bogey-free spherical of the day. The American is winless in three seasons on the LPGA Tour.
“By no means been on this place earlier than and that is one thing that I dreamed about rising up as a child,” Hartlage mentioned. “So, it’s actually superior to be on this place and simply type of see the way it goes and study from each day, each spherical.”
Yamashita, from Japan, had her second 70 in a row. She’s an 11-time winner on the Japanese tour.
“I’m not serious about a lot of profitable,” Yamashita mentioned by a translator. “I’m simply specializing in every shot.”
Sarah Schmelzel, the American who shared the second-round lead with Yang, shot a 74 to drop to 4 underneath.
First-round chief Lexi Thompson had a 73 to drop right into a tie for fifth at 3 underneath with Lilia Vu (68), Caroline Inglis (69), Jin Younger Ko (73) and Hinako Shibuno (73). Inglis is from Vancouver, Washington.
