LPGA Tour: Leona Maguire cards nine-under 63 to tie for lead at CME Group Tour Championship in Florida | Golf News

Maguire had four-straight birdies across the flip and added one other pair late on to be part of Lydia Ko on 15-under in pursuit of $2 million prize pot; Watch the ultimate spherical stay on Sunday from 7pm on Sky Sports Golf and – for free – on the Sky Sports Golf YouTube channel

Ireland’s Leona Maguire has a share of the lead heading into the ultimate spherical of the CME Group Tour Championship in Florida

Leona Maguire of Ireland carded a nine-under 63, permitting her to catch Lydia Ko for a share of the lead after three rounds of the CME Group Tour Championship in Florida and arrange an exciting final-day duel for the richest prize in ladies’s golf.

Maguire, certainly one of 11 first-time winners on the LPGA Tour this 12 months, had four-straight birdies across the flip and added one other pair late on in her beautiful spherical that has catapulted her into rivalry for the $2 million prize pot at Tiburon Golf Club.

Her important contender for the money, Ko, had a five-shot lead to begin the third spherical – seven pictures forward of Maguire – however a mix of birdies and bogeys stalled her spherical. She fell one shot behind Maguire at one stage till chipping to tap-in vary on the par-five seventeenth on her means to a spherical of 70.

The forecast for Sunday’s ultimate spherical is for rain and 20 mph gusts of wind. “Nothing I’m not used to from Ireland,” Maguire mentioned when she completed her spherical.

“Ultimately just got to go out and play as well as I possibly can, and especially if there’s bad weather, that’s all you can control. Looking forward to one last walk of the season tomorrow.”

Maguire and Ko have a five-shot benefit over former US Women’s Open champion, Korea’s Jeon-Geun Lee, and Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh.

Elsewhere, Brooke Henderson stored her slim hopes alive for participant of the 12 months. The Canadian, who had to withdraw final week with a again harm, had two eagles in her spherical of 65 and was at nine-under, six behind the leaders.

Henderson can have to win the CME Group Tour Championship and have Ko end third or worse to win participant of the 12 months.

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