Evian Championship – third spherical
-19 H Ryu (Kor); -16 A Iwai (Jpn); -12 M Saigo (Jpn), B Henderson (Can); -11 C Alexander (SA); -10 L Woad (Eng), M Yamashita (Jpn), J Thitikul (Tha)
Chosen others: -8 C Gainer (Eng); -6 C Hull (Eng), L Ko (NZ); -5 J Ewart (Eng); -2 HJ Kim (Kor), R Yin (Chn); -1 SY Kim (Kor)
England’s Lottie Woad slipped off the highest of the leaderboard on the Evian Championship as Haeran Ryu carded the bottom spherical in main championship historical past.
South Korea’s Ryu thrust herself into rivalry by firing an 11-under 60 within the east of France on Saturday, taking her to 19 below for the match and giving her a three-shot lead.
The world quantity seven is now in rivalry to win back-to-back majors having claimed her first at the Women’s PGA Championship final month.
Akie Iwai trails Ryu by three strokes and her Japanese compatriot Mao Saigo is 4 pictures additional again, on 12 below with Canada’s Brooke Henderson.
Woad, 22, led by one overnight however the world quantity 4 carded a one-over 72 to slide to a tie for sixth place, 9 strokes off the lead.
Ryu almost completed with a 59 however her 30-foot putt for an eagle on the par-five 18th gap got here up simply quick.
The 25-year-old nonetheless completed along with her fourth birdie over her final 5 holes on the Evian however was not conscious she was on the verge of a sub-60 spherical.
She mentioned: “After the putt, I counted my rating with my caddie… ‘Oh my God, it is 11-under par at the moment’. It was so wonderful. I am so blissful proper now.”
Ryu recorded 9 birdies and an eagle on the par-four sixth gap as she claimed her report spherical, which surpassed Hyo Joo Kim (2014), Jeong-eun Lee6 and Leona Maguire (each 2021), who all hit 61 on the Evian.
The occasion is that this 12 months’s fourth main out of 5 in girls’s golf and Ryu might win her second in three weeks, after triumphing on the Girls’s PGA Championship in Minnesota.
“Yeah, that’s a tremendous dream,” she mentioned. “I simply need that one to return true, however we now have yet one more day and Akie is a fairly good participant. All people is so good.”
Iwai had eight birdies towards two bogeys to stay in rivalry whereas Henderson’s spherical of 64 included eagles on the seventh and fifteenth holes.
