Nelly Korda, chasing a historic third straight major championship win, shot a 1-under 71 on a sun-drenched, but windy day at Hazeltine National Golf Club outside Minneapolis. She and Alison Lee are four shots off the lead, which history indicates is important.<\/p>\n
In the last 35 Women\u2019s PGA Championships, the eventual winner was leading or within four shots of the lead after three rounds.<\/p>\n
The top-ranked player in the world, Korda has struggled on the greens over the first three rounds, going 7 for 11 on putts between 3 and 5 feet, ranking 65th among the 68 remaining players. She was 19 of 20 from that distance over four rounds when she won the US Open earlier this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe greens are pretty slick. They don\u2019t have too much grass on them. The short putts are pretty difficult,\u201d said Korda, who three-putted two greens in her round. \u201cPutting in general, when it gets this windy, you have to calculate in the wind, too, and a gust here and there. Sometimes you just aren\u2019t as confident with your lines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryu\u2019s score tied for the lowest round of the day, one day after her 64 was Friday\u2019s low score.<\/p>\n
She played the first seven holes in 4 under, including a 28-foot eagle putt on No. 7, and a birdie putt on No. 9 that rimmed around three-quarters of the hole before falling. Ryu was 1-over on the back nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was more windy and a lot of tough shots and tough putts, but I just made one bogey today, so it was good for me for tomorrow, and tomorrow I just want to have more confidence and more calm,\u201d she said of potentially winning her first major.<\/p>\n
Yoon, who shot a tournament record-tying 63 on Thursday and a 69 on Friday to reach 12 under, put her opening tee shot in a bunker, leading to a bogey. It was the first of four on the front side to go with one birdie. Bogeys on Nos. 10 and 12 were sandwiched around a birdie on No. 11 before the 23-year-old South Korean played the final six holes in 1 under.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a really long day, especially the front nine. I was just nervous a lot. I missed short putts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Nerves are not an issue for Henderson, who looks to win her second Women\u2019s PGA Championship 10 years after winning at Sahalee Country Club in Washington at age 18.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was nice to hit a lot of greens, a lot of fairways and give myself a lot of good birdie looks. Would have been nice maybe to capitalize on a few more, but definitely happy with where I\u2019m at, and excited for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda, chasing a historic third straight major championship win, shot a 1-under 71 on a sun-drenched, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11502,8170,2000,44,7167,6168,1999,11503,5318,7107,3982,2003,9729,9792,692,1288,2001,4313,302,10094],"class_list":["post-28486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-u-s-open-championship","tag-adult","tag-chaska","tag-color-image","tag-golf","tag-green-golf-course","tag-hazeltine-national-golf-club","tag-horizontal","tag-lining-up-sports-activity","tag-lpga","tag-minnesota","tag-nelly-korda","tag-photography","tag-putting-golf","tag-round-three","tag-sport","tag-u-s-open-championship","tag-usa","tag-women","tag-womens-golf","tag-womens-pga-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}