{"id":798565,"date":"2026-10-10T23:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798565\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T23:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:24:12","slug":"yamashita-leads-at-korea-championship-byrne-six-off-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798565\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamashita leads at Korea Championship, Byrne six off pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Miyu Yamashita continued her good form with another round of 68 (-4) at the 2026 Aramco Korea Championship to lead on 13 under par with one round remaining.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/30194\/korea-championship-916288\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The major champion led by two shots overnight and began her day with a birdie at the first before a dropped shot on the second at New Korea Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>Yamashita added further birdies on the eighth and 11th holes before finishing in style with back-to-back birdies on 16 and 17 to sit at the top of the leaderboard on 13-under-par.<\/p>\n<p>Five-time major champion Yani Tseng is in solo second place after firing a 66 (-6) on day three of the Aramco Korea Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Tseng was bogey-free on moving day rolling in birdies on her third, eighth, 11th, 13th, 14th and 18th holes.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Sara Byrne shot a 68, her best round of the tournament so far. That lifted Byrne up to seven under par, six behind Yamashita.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Celine Herbin-Marshall is in outright third place after she fired the low round of the day with a 65 (-7), equalling the course record set by Seojin Park in 2025 and Patricie Mackova in round one.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time LET winner made a birdie on her opening hole and made another on her fifth hole before rolling in a monster eagle putt on the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>On her back nine, Herbin-Marshall finished with a flourish with birdies on her 14th, 16th and 17th holes to propel herself up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s Ginnie Ding and Czechia\u2019s Sara Kouskova share fourth place on 10-under-par at the 54-hole mark.<\/p>\n<p>Ding, who competed at the Asian Games last week, was bogey-free rolling in five birdies for her flawless 67.<\/p>\n<p>Kouskova got off to a hot start rolling in three birdies on her front nine before adding another on the 10th hole.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time LET winner rolled in three birdies on the trot between holes 12 and 14 to surge hold the lead, but finished with three bogeys to end the day on 10-under-par.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Sarah Kemp and Sweden\u2019s Louise Rydqvist are in a tie for sixth place on nine-under-par with five players one shot further back in T8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Miyu Yamashita continued her good form with another round of 68 (-4) at the 2026 Aramco Korea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798565","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\/798565","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=798565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}