into a spectator\u2019s pocket<\/a> at the 2014 Tour Championship.<\/p>\nNoh\u2019s bid for a first major appeared to be stumbling at Royal Lytham and St Annes when she bogeyed three of her opening seven holes.<\/p>\n
But the 25-year-old bounced back as others struggled on the back nine, with four birdies at the 9th, 10th, 11th and 16th to move into a commanding position.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a little bit of a rocky start, but my putting was solid and my shots too,\u201d said Noh.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just settled into a better routine and focused on my tempo on the back nine. \u201cIt\u2019s just another round of golf out there tomorrow and I\u2019m going to enjoy it. I\u2019m just happy to be in this position and ready to go again.\u201d <\/p>\n
Aussies struggle at British Open | 01:08<\/p>\n
Overnight leader Ryu looked to be closing in on becoming just the fifth woman to win three consecutive majors.<\/p>\n
The South Korean briefly led by five shots after reaching nine under when she was two under for the day through six holes.<\/p>\n
However, the PGA Championship and Evian champion then produced five bogeys in eight holes.<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Shiho Kuwaki had a similarly rollercoaster round with two birdies and four bogeys to also finish on four under par.<\/p>\n
They are joined by world number two Jeeno Thitikul, Lucy Li and Esther Henseleit.<\/p>\n
England\u2019s Lottie Woad is seventh on three under with Charley Hull, Minami Katsu, Chanettee Wannasaen and Ayaka Furue a stroke further back.<\/p>\n
World number one Nelly Korda\u2019s shot at a third major this year looks over after a 73 left the American at one over par for the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bizarre incident midway through the third round of the women\u2019s British Open has spread around the golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-839088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839088","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=839088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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