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<\/p>\nLYTHAM ST ANNES, England \u2014 American Yealimi Noh has a three-shot lead heading into the final round of the AIG Women\u2019s Open. And the 25-year-old from Concord, California, is now visualizing what could be a first major win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to imagine it so I can manifest it,\u201d said Noh, who is 7-under par after 54 holes. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard to be positive, especially with golf. It can be really tough. But manifestation is important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noh, who overcame three early bogeys at holes No. 4, 5 and 7, had not broken par in stroke-play competition since April until she shot 67 on day one at Royal Lytham & St Annes. A round of 70 on the par 71 course, which is hosting the 50th edition of the British Open, on Friday was followed by a score of 69 on Saturday for the player who is currently ranked 69th in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt only takes one round for your whole mindset and whole game to change,\u201d said Noh, who has missed the cut at nearly half of the 30 major tournaments she has competed in, including the recent KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship and the Amundi Evian Championship. \u201cI had a really rough couple of months. Not even just missing cuts, but just not playing good golf or rounds. And Thursday, I was just really happy to shoot under par and just really set me up for the week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Growing up in California to South Korean parents Kim and Brian, Noh first picked up golf clubs at the age of seven and started competing in youth tournaments at age nine. She turned professional in 2019, when she was 17, and began her LPGA career the following year. After some success as an amateur, her only professional win came in Florida at the Bradenton Country Club, where she won the Founders Cup by four strokes in February 2025.<\/p>\n
Last year, while holidaying in Spain, she got engaged to Jackson Suh, a former college tennis player, who is now big into his golf. When schedules allow, the couple travel around playing different golf courses together, and Noh credits her fianc\u00e9 for helping to remind her that \u201cgolf could be fun.\u201d Last week, in preparation for the British Open, they played at Sahalee Country Club in Washington together. Noh said avoiding the trees there was the perfect preparation for getting ready to dodge the 166 bunkers that line the course here in west Lancashire, around 250 miles northwest of London.<\/p>\n
Suh was actually getting in some practice rounds of his own at Sahalee for a club championship tournament in Snoqualmie Ridge in Seattle this weekend. That means he is not in attendance as his partner vies for her first major win and is instead watching on from the west coast. Or at least, Noh joked, she hopes he is.<\/p>\n
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\n Noh plays out of the rough by the side of the 15th fairway. (Glyn Kirk \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been the best supporter, my biggest supporter besides my parents,\u201d she said. \u201cI really wouldn\u2019t be able to do anything without him, especially out on the golf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
As she left the grounds on Saturday evening, Noh was on her way to dinner with her mother Kim, who is in town for what might be about to become the greatest weekend of her daughter\u2019s golfing career so far. With a love of travel and food, Noh had already scoped out restaurants in the area she wanted to visit. \u201cIt\u2019s always fun for me to do that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Her love of dining might have something to do with the fact that her parents once owned a sushi restaurant in Concord, near where she grew up. Happy Roll, as it was called, even had a sushi roll named after Noh. At $13.95, the \u201cYealimi\u201d was a combination of crab, avocado and mango.<\/p>\n