MAINEVILLE, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Charley Hull shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul after three rounds of the Kroger Queen City Championship.<\/p>\n
Hull birdied four of her final eight holes to post 16-under 200 at TPC River\u2019s Bend, and credited her straightforward mental approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just hit a ball and find it and hit it again, you know what I mean? I think that\u2019s the trouble with many golfers, overthinking,\u201d Hull said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a game. Hit a white ball at the pin. Make a birdie or make a par, make a bogey, whatever, just roll on to the next hole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thitikul, seeking to become the first multiple winner on the LPGA Tour this season, shot 68. The Thai star won in May at Liberty National in Jersey City, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know like today I think I do have a lot of chance to make a birdie, but my putter didn\u2019t come up today,\u201d Thitikul said.<\/p>\n
Hull has two LPGA victories, most recently in 2022. The English player is coming off a runner-up finish in Houston as part of the Aramco series on the Ladies European Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust kind of not even thinking about tomorrow. Looking forward to my fish tacos later tonight,\u201d Hull said.<\/p>\n
Two Japanese players with victories this year were two shots back: Women\u2019s British Open champion Miyu Yamashita (66) and rookie Chisato Iwai (66).<\/p>\n
Second-ranked Nelly Korda, who is winless this year, closed with an eagle on the par-5 18th to shoot 68 and was three shots back alongside Yealimi Noh (64), Bianca Pagdanganan (66) and Mary Liu (68).<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of faded a 5-iron in there, a little controlled 5,\u201d Korda said of her closing approach from 201 yards, which settled about 15 feet away. \u201cTried to hit it a little higher so it wouldn\u2019t shoot on the green, and did just that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Second-round leader Chanettee Wannasaen faded with a 75 and was six shots back.<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAINEVILLE, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Charley Hull shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-142004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}