Yubol, the second-round leader, had a 68 to match Schubert at 16-under (200) with a round left on the tree-lined Columbia Edgewater Country Club layout.<\/p>\n
The leaders are winless on the LPGA Tour, with the 30-year-old Schubert back on the big tour after finishing 10th in the Epson Tour standings last year. The American – the 2017 US Women’s Amateur winner – is ranked 295th in the world and is 125th in the tour’s points race.<\/p>\n
“I love the Epson Tour. It’s great. I loved playing out there,” Schubert said.<\/p>\n
“I think it was a great boost for my confidence. Competition is great and you get the sense of winning.”<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Yubol is ranked 112th in the world and is 28th in the tour’s season standings. She finished second this year at Mayakoba and the ShopRite LPGA.<\/p>\n
Fellow Thai player Jeeno Thitikul is third, two strokes back after a 67, to take final spot in the last group on Sunday (Monday AEST). She’s chasing her 10th LPGA Tour victory.<\/p>\n
“We’re playing golf because we love to be in contention,” Thitikul said.<\/p>\n
“We love to be chasing the trophy.”<\/p>\n
South Korea’s Narin An shot 66 to get to 13-under.<\/p>\n
Robyn Choi (71) is the leading Australian at eight-under, while Grace Kim (74) is a further shot adrift.<\/p>\n
Schubert rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 14th with birdies on the par-3 16th and the par-4 18th. Playing partner Yubol birdied the first two holes on the back nine to get to 17-under, then had six pars and a bogey – on the par-4 15th – on the final seven.<\/p>\n
“I can’t wait to play with her again,” said Schubert, who played in college at Auburn and Texas.<\/p>\n
“We had a great day today. She’s fun to play with.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yubol, the second-round leader, had a 68 to match Schubert at 16-under (200) with a round left on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739595","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\/739595","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=739595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}