{"id":661928,"date":"2026-06-28T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:17:11","slug":"womens-pga-championship-ina-yoon-blows-five-shot-lead-as-haeran-ryu-takes-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661928\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s PGA Championship: Ina Yoon blows five-shot lead as Haeran Ryu takes lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Women&#8217;s PGA Championship third round<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">-11 H Ryu (Kor); -10 B Henderson (Can); -9 I Yoon (Kor); -8 AL Kim (Kor), D Weber (Ned); -7 N Korda (US), A Lee (US); -6 D.E Lee (Kor), A Kim (US),  K Davidson (Aus)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Selected others: -4 E Henseleit (Ger); -1 Carolina Melgrati (Ita), E M Stark (Swe), P Delacour (Fra); +1 L Maguire (Ire) G Dryburgh (Sco)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/ladies-major-championships\/leaderboard\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Korea&#8217;s Ina Yoon let a five-shot lead slip as compatriot Haeran Ryu moved two shots clear of her heading into the final round of the Women&#8217;s PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yoon, who was nine under par after a spectacular opening round, followed that up with a 69 to reach 12 under at the halfway point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the end of the second round, though, world number one Nelly Korda had predicted Yoon, who has yet to win a major, would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c1wy9308988o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">start to feel the pressure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And it came to pass as a tough third round of 75 in blustery conditions, which included six bogeys, left the 23-year-old two shots behind leader Ryu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was just nervous a lot,&#8221; said Yoon. &#8220;I missed short putts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After 10, I think I found my pace. Even on the front nine, I didn&#8217;t do anything different, but I think I was a little unlucky so there was a little frustration there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryu, 25, backed up her impressive second-round 64 with 68 in the third to reach 11 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;My front nine, it was amazing because I got an eagle and three birdies. I started the back nine, it was more windy and a lot of tough putts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I just made one bogey, so it was good for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Korda is eyeing a third major title this year after winning the Chevron Championship and the US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American shot one under in the third round &#8211; three birdies and two bogeys &#8211; to finish four off the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time major winner Brooke Henderson is on 10 under and in a strong position to challenge on Sunday for her second Women&#8217;s PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old, who won the tournament in 2016, kept Ryu within reach with a round of three under, but admitted the wind had an impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was affecting everything,&#8221; said Henderson. &#8220;I feel like it was just hard to judge all day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Korda also added the weather will dictate how she approaches the final round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just left a few putts out there,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Putting in general, when it gets this windy, you have to calculate in the wind, too, and a gust here and there. Sometimes you aren&#8217;t as confident with your lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The purse of $13m (\u00a39.8m) this week is the largest in women&#8217;s golf history, with $1.95m (\u00a31.48m) awarded to the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s PGA Championship third round -11 H Ryu (Kor); -10 B Henderson (Can); -9 I Yoon (Kor); -8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661928","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=661928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}