Andrea Lee fired a 5-under-par 67 to maneuver into first place at 19 below Saturday after three rounds of the Portland Traditional in Oregon.
Lee, who gained the 2022 Portland Traditional for her solely win, bogeyed the par-4 first gap however then birdied 5 of the subsequent eight to shut the entrance 9 at -18-under, then managed one birdie and all pars the remainder of the way in which.
“Clearly, I really like this golf course. I really feel actually comfy out right here,” Lee mentioned afterward. “Simply performed actually regular golf. Managed to get some putts to drop on the entrance 9. I believed the pin places on the again had been a bit of trickier. Simply tried to remain actually affected person.”
Alexa Pano and Dewi Weber of the Netherlands ended the day tied for second, one shot off the lead.
Weber, who held a two-stroke lead after capturing a 62 on Friday, managed a 2-under 70 on Saturday, ending with two bogeys and 4 birdies. She had one bogey and two birdies on the back and front nines at Columbia Edgewater Nation Membership.
Weber mentioned her spherical “was extra for me about doing the identical issues that I’ve been doing and simply making an attempt to maintain making good swings, which truthfully I used to be doing. I hit good putts, except for perhaps one or two.
“For me it was extra like, ‘Oh, I am doing the suitable issues. It is simply not going within the gap.’ So then it is simpler, I feel, to regulate versus I am hitting dangerous photographs or hitting dangerous putts or no matter. That approach I can keep affected person as properly.”
Pano’s up-and-down spherical of 66 started with two bogeys, however she ran off 5 straight birdies. She ended with 9 birdies and three bogeys, after her second-round 64.
“I really feel like I get fairly targeted on the golf course. I misplaced my focus a bit of bit on 16 (a bogey). We had been placed on the clock, and I rushed a bit of bit, and that is one thing I am nonetheless studying to deal with,” Pano mentioned.
Angel Yin (66 on Saturday) and Polly Mack (69) of Germany go into Sunday’s closing spherical tied for fourth at 17 below. Mack led the primary spherical after firing a 63 on Thursday.
Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand and Nataliya Guseva of Russia every posted 64s for the low spherical of the day and had been in a three-way tie for sixth, together with South Korea’s So Mi Lee (67).
Defending champion Chantette Wannasaen (68) of Thailand is amongst a big group tied for twenty eighth.
–Area Degree Media
