The largest cheque in girls’s golf was on the road after Leona Maguire shot the third spherical’s best rating to share the highest of the CME Group Tour Championship leaderboard with Lydia Ko.
The Irishwoman, 27, began the day seven strokes behind her New Zealander opponent, however raced into rivalry with a bogey-free 63 that was only one off the season-ending match’s file set by Ko in 2016.
The Twentieth-ranked participant had 9 birdies, together with 5 in a six-hole run between holes eight and 13, at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, to end at 15 beneath with Ko.
“I was just dialled in today,” Maguire mentioned after play.
“My caddie has been talking the last two weeks all about patience and patience and they’re going to drop. Finally, they did today, which was nice.”
Maguire is chasing a second title, to go along with the trophy she claimed at this 12 months’s Drive On Championship, and victory in the two-million-dollar (£1.6million) occasion would guarantee she passes the four-million-dollar (£3.2million) mark for profession earnings.
Third-ranked Ko, in the meantime, had her worst spherical at this 12 months’s match, carding 70 after mixing 4 birdies with two bogeys.
The 25-year-old started the week with a one-point lead for LPGA participant of the 12 months and stays on monitor to additionally carry her second straight Vare Trophy for the bottom scoring common.
Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh and Jeongeun Lee of South Korea have been 5 strokes again from the leaders at 10 beneath, with Englishwomen Georgia Hall and Jodi Ewart Shadoff at seven beneath and 6 beneath, respectively.
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