{"id":539462,"date":"2026-04-19T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539462\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:42:10","slug":"sei-young-kim-rides-ups-downs-to-hold-la-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539462\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei Young Kim rides ups, downs to hold LA lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Sei Young Kim endured a rough back nine with four consecutive bogeys on Saturday but retained her lead after three rounds at the JM Eagle LA Championship in Tarzana, California.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 10 in the world, Kim had a one-shot lead entering the day and expanded that to two strokes with a one-under-par 71 to move to 15-under at El Caballero Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, wow, it&#8217;s feel like, yeah, roller coaster,&#8221; Kim said of her round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know still two-shot lead until the last hole. Yeah, after finish I look at the scoreboard and I still (hold a) two-shot lead. OK, one more day. Yeah, I&#8217;m going better tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four players are tied for second at 13 under: Australia&#8217;s Hannah Green (5-under 67 on Saturday), Thailand&#8217;s Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (67), South Korea&#8217;s Ina Yoon (71) and Jessica Porvasnik (68).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Sei Young Kim endured a rough back nine with four consecutive bogeys on Saturday but retained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}