{"id":873300,"date":"2026-08-30T01:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873300\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:46:17","slug":"chinese-stars-chip-in-to-lead-lpgas-fm-championship-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873300\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese star&#8217;s chip-in to lead LPGA&#8217;s FM Championship \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese star Ruoning Yin has chipped in for birdie from just off the 18th green to take the third-round lead in the LPGA Tour\u2019s FM Championship at TPC Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Yin also holed a 20-foot putt for birdie on the par-3 16th in her third round of four-under 68 as she got to 12-under 204 on Saturday and took a one-stroke lead over South Koreans Sei Young Kim (67) and Hyo Joo Kim (70).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think my swing is in a good spot, my putting and every part of my game I think are pretty good,\u201d Yin said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just going to play my game. I\u2019m not going to play safe when it\u2019s time to go aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yin has five LPGA Tour victories. winning twice in 2023 and three times in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think just play my game,\u201d Yin said. \u201cI knew today was going to be tough and tomorrow is going to be tougher, so just be patient and play my game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sei Young Kim, the first-round leader after a 64, rebounded from her second-round 74<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788054375_44_.jpeg\" alt=\"dd\"\/>Sei Young Kim put herself back into contention. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little more emotional today,\u201d she said. \u201cIt kind of helps today, like positive way.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hyo Joo Kim already has two victories this season, the Founders Cup and Ford Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to make sure I\u2019m doing a good job tomorrow,\u201d she said through a translator..<\/p>\n<p>Somi Lee (70) and Jenny Bae (72) were tied for fourth at eight under.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788054377_830_.jpeg\" alt=\"dd\"\/>Hyo Joo Kim shares second place as she seeks a third win in 2026. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p>Karis Davidson (70, three under) was the pick of the Australians, tied for 29th with Hannah Green (73) a shot back and Robyn Choi (75, two over) slipping to tied 57th. <\/p>\n<p>Miyu Yamashita, the Japanese player tied for the second-round lead, dropped six strokes back with a 75. <\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Nelly Korda was tied for 49th after her third straight 72 in the final event before the Solheim Cup matches in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>European captain Anna Nordqvist was one over after a 73 in her final event on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese star Ruoning Yin has chipped in for birdie from just off the 18th green to take the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,73648,755,58251,405163,85,2614,12632],"class_list":["post-873300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fm-championship","tag-golf","tag-lpga","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873300","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=873300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}