Yang takes two shot lead at Women's PGA Championship

Women's PGA Championship 3rd round

-7 A nan (Kor); -5 L Hartlage (US), M Yamashita (Jpn); -4 S Schmelzel (US); -3 C Inglis (US), JY Ko (Kor), H Shibuno (Jpn), L Thompson (US), L Vu (US)

Selected others: -1 C Hull (Eng); E L Maguire (Ire); +3 G Hall (Eng)

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Amy nan moved into a two-shot lead of nan Women's PGA Championship by carding a 3rd information of 71.

The 34-year-old South Korean deed 3 birdies and a bogey to spell to 7 nether par, pinch Lauren Hartlage (69) and Miyu Yamashita (70) connected 5 under.

Sarah Schmelzel was successful nan associated overnight lead pinch nan but changeable a 74 and is connected 4 nether par astatine nan Sahalee Country Club successful Washington.

England's Charley Hull was wrong scope of nan leaders earlier she recovered nan h2o and deed a triple bogey connected nan par-three 17th.

She vanished pinch a par information of 72, which besides included 5 birdies and 2 bogeys, and is six shots disconnected nan lead connected 1 nether par.

"My mate yesterday goes, 'what happened to you connected 17 yesterday? You astir deed it successful nan water'," said Hull.

"So I sewage to nan tee container and I'm reasoning to myself, I ne'er astir deed successful nan water. Then I'm reasoning astir nan h2o and conscionable fatted it into nan water. It's human.

"It wasn't for illustration me. I played truthful good retired location and didn't do 1 point incorrect and sewage up and down erstwhile I needed to.

"But I'm still affirmative going into nan last round. Anything tin happen."

Yang has 5 wins connected nan LPGA Tour but will beryllium chasing her first triumph astatine a awesome connected Sunday.

"It'll mean a lot, but we still sewage 18 much holes retired location and that's a batch of play near for awesome championship," she said.

"I'm conscionable going to clasp nan infinitesimal and not going to expect nan result. Just spot what's going to happen."

The 3rd information included Pajaree Anannarukarn of Thailand hitting a spread successful 1 - nan first astatine nan arena since 2018 - pinch her effort connected nan 153-yard par-three 13th.