BELMONT, Mich. \u2014 Jing Yan shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to maintain a one-shot lead in the wind-swept Meijer LPGA Classic, the final event before the major KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship next week at Hazeltine.<\/p>\n
Yan birdied the par-5 18th to cap her second straight bogey-free round at Blythefield Country Club. Winless on the LPGA Tour, the 30-year-old American had a 14-under 202 total.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just tried to enjoy it,\u201d Yan said. \u201cI knew I was going to be a little bit nervous not having really been in this position before, but I have been kind of in the later tee times and there have been times where I haven\u2019t handled it very well. So, just trying to figure out what really works for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lottie Woad of England was second. She also birdied the 18th in a 68.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think just trying to get off to a good start,\u201d Woad said about the final round. \u201cTry and get back ahead and push early and just keep putting the pressure on is what we\u2019re going to try to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cassie Porter of Australia was two shots behind after a 69.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe back nine the greens started to firm up,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n
In Gee Chun had a 65 to get to 10 under. Wei-Ling Hsu (68) and first-round leader Yan Liu (70) also were 10 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELMONT, Mich. \u2014 Jing Yan shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to maintain a one-shot lead in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-750554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750554","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=750554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}