England’s Holly Clyburn, Charley Hull and South Korean Eun Woo ‘Annie’ Choi share the lead after the wind swept day at the RACV Ladies Masters in Queensland.
It was a day where the RACV Royal Pines course won, with the best score of the day one-under-par 72 which was had by a handful of players. The leader board is jam packed with 17 players within four shots of the lead.
Clyburn posted a one-over-par 74, while Choi and Hull had two-over-par rounds. The leaders will take a slender one shot lead into Sunday over Australian Su Oh (72), Norway’s Tonje Daffinrud (72) and second round leader Rebecca Artis. The Australian took a three shot lead into Saturday but struggled in the conditions and carded a six-over-par 78, however she is right in the mix.
Local 16-year-old amateur Rebecca Kay finished her round in style with an eagle and got the biggest cheer from the crowd on the 18th. Kay (73) shares seventh place with Malaysian Michelle Koh (72) and Chinese Taipei Ssu-Chia Cheng (74) at two-under-par.
Three players are at one-under-par and just three off the leaders, one of these players is Rolex World No. 29, Lee-Anne Pace. Pace is the top ranked player in the field and finished birdie, eagle and is will looking to capture her 10th LET title. Last October she came from five shots down to win the Cell C South African Women’s Open.
The 2009 champion, Katherine Kirk is one of five players at even par. England’s Melissa Reid and Gwladys Nocera are also at even-par and are all very experienced players who could also make a charge on Sunday.
Defending champion Cheyenne Woods fired an even par round, but that was enough to move up around 30 places. Woods is at five-over-par and tied for 37th.
Collated scores after round 3:
215 – Eun Woo Choi (KOR) 69 71 75, Holly Clyburn (ENG) 70 71 74, Charley Hull (ENG) 70 70 75
216 – Tonje Daffinrud (NOR) 74 70 72, Su-Hyun Oh (AUS) 69 75 72, Rebecca Artis (AUS) 71 66 79
217 – Ssu-Chia Cheng (TPE) 74 69 74, Rebecca Kay (AUS) 74 70 73, Michelle Koh (MYS) 74 71 72
218 – Lee-Anne Pace (RSA) 73 73 72, Camilla Lennarth (SWE) 71 75 72, Amy Boulden (WAL) 72 73 73
219 – Gwladys Nocera (FRA) 72 71 76, Jiwon Jeon (AUS) 72 73 74, Melissa Reid (ENG) 72 73 74, Florentyna Parker (ENG) 71 74 74, Katherine Kirk (AUS) 70 75 74
220 – Felicity Johnson (ENG) 73 73 74, Whitney Hillier (AUS) 72 75 73, Kristie Smith (AUS) 73 75 72, Lorie Kane (CAN) 71 74 75, Emma De Groot (AUS) 72 75 73
221 – Sally Watson (SCO) 77 70 74, Marianne Skarpnord (NOR) 73 74 74
222 – Nicole Broch Larsen (DEN) 75 72 75, Laura Jansone (LVA) 73 74 75, Titiya Plucksataporn (THA) 77 73 72, Isabelle Boineau (FRA) 74 74 74, Marta Sanz (ESP) 74 73 75
223 – Connie Chen (RSA) 75 73 75, Tamie Durdin (AUS) 75 75 73, Pamela Pretswell (SCO) 75 74 74, Yu-Sang Hou (TPE) 74 74 75, Breanna Elliott (AUS) 75 69 79, Marion Ricordeau (FRA) 76 70 77, Su-Bin Jang (KOR) 74 71 78
224 – Jessica Speechley (AUS) 75 76 73, Anne-Lise Caudal (FRA) 73 77 74, Pei-Yun Chien (TPE) 73 73 78, Christine Wolf (AUT) 75 71 78, Yu-Ju Chen (TWN) 77 72 75, Pennapa Plusawath (THA) 71 78 75, Cheyenne Woods (USA) 73 78 73, Hannah Green (AUS) 71 73 80, Alison Whitaker (AUS) 72 74 78, Laura Davies (ENG) 74 74 76, Beth Allen (USA) 76 73 75
225 – Stacey Keating (AUS) 77 74 74, Yu Yang Zhang (CHN) 77 74 74, Eleanor Givens (ENG) 72 76 77
226 – Valentine Derrey (FRA) 74 72 80, Liv Cheng (NZL) 77 74 75, Karis Davidson (AUS) 78 72 76, Hannah Collier (USA) 75 73 78
227 – Vikki Laing (SCO) 75 74 78, Tiranan Yoopan (THA) 73 77 77, Caroline Martens (NOR) 70 77 80
228 – Adriana Brent (AUS) 74 75 79, Anne Van Dam (NLD) 76 73 79, Da Eun Kim (KOR) 73 75 80, Rebecca Codd (IRL) 74 77 77, Carly Booth (SCO) 77 73 78
229 – Grace Lennon (AUS) 75 75 79, Esther So-jin Baik (KOR) 72 75 82
230 – Nina Holleder (GER) 75 74 81, Sophie Gustafson (SWE) 76 75 79
231 – Sydney Cox (USA) 73 73 85
