{"id":731810,"date":"2026-08-08T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731810\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:06:11","slug":"pif-london-championship-anna-huang-holds-narrow-lead-over-englands-charley-hull-heading-into-final-round-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731810\/","title":{"rendered":"PIF London Championship: Anna Huang holds narrow lead over England&#8217;s Charley Hull heading into final round | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Huang maintained her narrow lead over Charley Hull in the third round of the PIF London Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Hull rose up the leaderboard after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/golf\/news\/12176\/13570796\/pif-london-championship-charley-hull-surges-into-second-with-course-record-as-anna-huang-leads-after-day-two\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a course-record 62 in the second round,<\/a> and a six-under 67 in the third &#8211; including nine birdies &#8211; meant she surged into second place, just three shots off Huang after the Canadian posted a course-best third-round 65.<\/p>\n<p>Hull, who finished tied sixth at the AIG Women&#8217;s Open earlier this month, notched four birdies and two bogies on the front nine, and just one bogey accompanied five birdies on the back nine. It meant the five-time LET winner kept the pressure firmly on going into Sunday&#8217;s final round.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/skysports-hull-let-golf_7317021.jpg\"   alt=\"Hull notched a course-record 62 in her second round on Friday\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Hull notched a course-record 62 in her second round on Friday<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Irishwoman Aine Donegan produced five birdies of her own to race into third place with a 69, ahead of Thailand&#8217;s Patty Tavatanakit &#8211; who recovered well from a one-over 74 in the first round with a seven-under 66 &#8211; and Lydia Hall of Wales, tied on 10-under.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Hewson struggled with a par 73 to remain 10th in the standings six-under, while Georgia Hall and Cara Gainer rounded out the English contingent towards the top of the leaderboard on four and three-under respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the fourth round of the PIF London Championship from 1pm on Sunday, live on Sky Sports Golf.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sky.com\/tv\/sports?dcmp=Ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Sky Sports<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/membership\/watch-sky-sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stream golf with no contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/golfnow-logo.png\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-image\" alt=\"Golf Now logo.\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\">Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK &amp; Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Huang maintained her narrow lead over Charley Hull in the third round of the PIF London Championship.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731810","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\/731810","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=731810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}