LAST UPDATE | 23 Apr 2023

LEONA MAGUIRE SITS nine shots off the lead heading into the final round at LPGA Chevron Championship, after hitting 70 in the third round.

Having opened with a disappointing four-over par 76, Maguire followed that with rounds of 69 and 70 to keep her nine behind the leaders Angel Yin and Allisen Corpuz who are both on 10-under.

Stephanie Meadow was one of the players who was delayed in getting through her second round and she fell just short of the cut line.

Meanwhile, Americans Angel Yin and Allisen Corpuz, each chasing their first LPGA title, fired five-under par 67s to share the lead after Saturday’s third round of the tournament.

In the year’s first women’s golf major, Yin and Corpuz stood on 10-under 206 after 54 holes on the Jack Nicklaus Signature course at The Woodlands near Houston, Texas.

Yin birdied three of the last four holes to charge into a tie at the top with Corpuz, who birdied four of the first five holes in a bogey-free round.

South Korea’s Amy Yang, American Megan Khang and Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela shared third on 207 with a pack on 208 including American Nelly Korda and South Koreans Kim A-lim, Choi Hye-jin and Kim Hyo-joo.

Yin, in only her third start of the year, hasn’t managed a top-10 LPGA finish since sharing third in last May’s Founders Cup.

But the 24-year-old was the 2019 US Women’s Open runner-up and captured a Ladies European Tour victory at Dubai in 2017.

Yin opened with a birdie, answered her lone bogey at the third with a birdie at the fourth and birdied 11, then got a stunning break when her tee shot at 12 bounced out of water and onto a bank, allowing her to escape with par before her birdie binge at 15, 16 and the par-5 18th.

Corpuz, 25, is in her second LPGA season. Her best finish was a runner-up spot last August in Japan.

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Elsewhere, Gary Hurley, Tom McKibbin and Brendan Lawlor all missed the cut at the ISPS HANDA Championship.

Hurley sat two-over, with McKibbin a shot further back and Lawlor on +18, the latter after rounds of 81 and 77. Hurley carded 67 and 75, while there were rounds of 71 and 72 for McKibbin.

Lucas Herbert, Jazz Janewattananond and Grant Forrest share the lead in Japan on 10-under.

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- with reporting from – © AFP 2023.