{"id":765750,"date":"2026-06-28T13:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765750\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:03:12","slug":"aussie-karis-davidson-in-sunday-chase-as-haeran-ryu-takes-womens-pga-lead-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765750\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Karis Davidson in Sunday chase as Haeran Ryu takes Women&#8217;s PGA lead \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Karis Davidson remains in the hunt heading into the final round of the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship, but will need to chase down a five-shot deficit after South Korea\u2019s Haeran Ryu surged into the lead at Hazeltine National Golf Club.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Unable to recapture the brilliance of her opening-round 65, Davidson mixed four birdies with three bogeys in a 1-under 71 to move to 6-under-par, tied for eighth, improving on her second-round 74.<\/p>\n<p>MUST-READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/exclusive-greg-norman-breaks-silence-on-pga-tours-australian-open-play-long-overdue-by-decades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Norman breaks silence on PGA Tour\u2019s Australian Open play: \u2018Long overdue by decades\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryu produced the round of the day with a 4-under 68 to reach 11-under, taking a one-shot lead over Canada\u2019s Brooke Henderson (69). Overnight leader Ina Yoon slipped back to third at 9-under after a 3-over 75.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>World No.1 Nelly Korda, chasing a historic third straight major championship after victories at the Chevron Championship and US Women\u2019s Open, posted a 1-under 71 to sit tied fourth at 7-under alongside Alison Lee, one shot ahead of Davidson.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>New Zealander Lydia Ko continued her recovery from an opening-round 76, backing up Friday\u2019s 69 with another 69 to climb to 2-under in a tie for 25th.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Grace Kim sits one shot further back in tied 32nd after a third-round 72, while Robyn Choi is even-par following a 73.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>It has been a season of career-bests for Davidson, whose T22 at the US Women\u2019s Open three weeks ago stands as her best major result, as she looks to better that mark at a tournament where she also recorded a career-low LPGA round on Thursday.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Davidson avoided a repeat of Friday\u2019s opening-hole double-bogey, beginning with two pars before rolling in a lengthy birdie putt at the par-5 third \u2013 the first birdie of her playing group, which included Korda and China\u2019s Weiwei Zhang.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Queenslander added another birdie at the sixth after converting a testing downhill putt before parring her way to the turn in 2-under, climbing to 7-under for the tournament.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Her composed bogey-free front nine contrasted with a rollercoaster back nine.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Her first bogey came at the 11th, but she responded immediately with a birdie at the 12th before another dropped shot at the 13th.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A tap-in birdie at the par-5 15th lifted her back to 7-under, but a closing bogey at the 18th saw her finish at 6-under, five shots behind the leader entering Sunday.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Davidson has one more day to chase a maiden LPGA Tour victory and first major title, while aiming to become the fifth Australian to win the championship.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>She will again play alongside world No.1 Nelly Korda in Sunday\u2019s final round, with Auston Kim completing the group.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Round 3 Australasian scores<br \/>T8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karis Davidson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 65-74-71<br \/>T25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Lydia Ko (NZ)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 76-69-69<br \/>T32\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grace Kim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 72-71-73<br \/>T41 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robyn Choi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 76-69-73<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Round 4 tee-times AEST<br \/>10:24pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grace Kim<br \/>10:35pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lydia Ko (NZ)<br \/>10:35pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robyn Choi<br \/>12:03am\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karis Davidson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Karis Davidson remains in the hunt heading into the final round of the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,327243,302808,29744,204891,58251,85],"class_list":["post-765750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-haeran-ryu","tag-hazeltine-national-golf-club","tag-karis-davidson","tag-kpmg-womens-pga-championship","tag-lpga","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}