World primary Jeeno Thitikul set a 54-hole match file on the CME Group Tour Championship as she prolonged her result in six pictures.
Thailand’s Thitikul fired an eight-under-par 64 in her third spherical to maneuver 22 beneath general.
“It has been fairly good,” stated 22-year-old Thitikul, who received this title final yr at 22 beneath.
“I used to be simply making an attempt to give attention to myself and making an attempt to make birdies and birdies and birdies as a result of I do know there is a bunch of gamers who will be capable to make some extra birdies.”
Thitikul’s compatriot Pajaree Anannarukarn and world quantity two Nelly Korda each shot 65 on Saturday and are joint second.
Thitikul, who led by three stokes on the midway stage, bogeyed her first gap on Saturday.
However she then birdied the second, fourth, fifth and sixth holes, following up on the again 9 with 4 birdies in a row from the eleventh to the fifteenth – and one other on the seventeenth.
Victory would make Thitikul the second girl – after South Korea’s Ko Jin-young in 2020 and 2021 – to win the match in successive years.
She would additionally obtain $4m (£3.1m) in prize cash from a complete pot of $11m (£8.4m).
