{"id":766782,"date":"2026-06-28T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:09:22","slug":"brooke-henderson-trails-haeran-ryu-by-one-heading-into-womens-pga-championship-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766782\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Henderson trails Haeran Ryu by one heading into Women\u2019s PGA Championship final round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/WNEY2SPMWRENPPULM5VG2DKS5M.jpg?auth=b2516a5dcb49ecf1234f082b26f149b8ade4cbeb3f28a8160513d8f682501cda&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Brooke Henderson plays her shot from the 15th tee during the third round of the KPMG Women&#8217;s PGA Championship 2026 at Hazeltine National Golf Club on Saturday.Andrew Wevers\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Haeran Ryu shot a four-under 68 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over Canadian Brooke Henderson after three rounds of the Women\u2019s PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Ina Yoon, who entered the day with a five-shot lead, struggled early but settled down to finish with a three-over 75 and is two shots off the pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Dewi Weber, the 210th ranked player in the World Golf Rankings seeking her first career LPGA win, birdied three of the final four holes and is three shots back after a 4-under 68. A Lim Kim joins her there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Nelly Korda, chasing a historic third straight major championship win, shot a 1-under 71 on a sun-drenched, but windy day at Hazeltine National Golf Club outside Minneapolis. She and Alison Lee are four shots off the lead, which history indicates is important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In the last 35 Women\u2019s PGA Championships, the eventual winner was leading or within four shots of the lead after three rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The top-ranked player in the world, Korda has struggled on the greens over the first three rounds, going seven for 11 on putts between three and five feet, ranking 65th among the 68 remaining players. She was 19 of 20 from that distance over four rounds when she won the U.S. Open earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThe greens are pretty slick. They don\u2019t have too much grass on them. The short putts are pretty difficult,\u201d said Korda, who three-putted two greens in her round. \u201cPutting in general, when it gets this windy, you have to calculate in the wind, too, and a gust here and there. Sometimes you just aren\u2019t as confident with your lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Ryu\u2019s score tied for the lowest round of the day, one day after her 64 was Friday\u2019s low score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">She played the first seven holes in four under, including a 28-foot eagle putt on No. 7, and a birdie putt on No. 9 that rimmed around three-quarters of the hole before falling. Ryu was 1-over on the back nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cIt was more windy and a lot of tough shots and tough putts, but I just made one bogey today, so it was good for me for tomorrow, and tomorrow I just want to have more confidence and more calm,\u201d she said of potentially winning her first major.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Yoon, who shot a tournament record-tying 63 on Thursday and a 69 on Friday to reach 12 under, put her opening tee shot in a bunker, leading to a bogey. It was the first of four on the front side to go with one birdie. Bogeys on Nos. 10 and 12 were sandwiched around a birdie on No. 11 before the 23-year-old South Korean played the final six holes in one under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI had a really long day, especially the front nine. I was just nervous a lot. I missed short putts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Nerves are not an issue for Henderson, of Smiths Falls, Ont., who looks to win her second Women\u2019s PGA Championship 10 years after winning at Sahalee Country Club in Washington at age 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cIt was nice to hit a lot of greens, a lot of fairways and give myself a lot of good birdie looks. Would have been nice maybe to capitalize on a few more, but definitely happy with where I\u2019m at, and excited for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Brooke Henderson plays her shot from the 15th tee during the third round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,622,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-766782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-golf","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766782","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=766782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}