LPGA Tour: Leona Maguire playing cards nine-under 63 to tie for lead at CME Group Tour Championship in Florida

Maguire had four-straight birdies across the flip and added one other pair late on to affix Lydia Ko on 15-under in pursuit of $2 million prize pot; Watch the ultimate spherical reside on Sunday from 7pm on Sky Sports activities Golf and – totally free – on the Sky Sports activities Golf YouTube channel

Final Up to date: 19/11/22 11:23pm

Ireland's Leona Maguire has a share of the lead heading into the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship in Florida

Leona Maguire of Eire carded a nine-under 63, permitting her to catch Lydia Ko for a share of the lead after three rounds of the CME Group Tour Championship in Florida and arrange an exciting final-day duel for the richest prize in girls’s golf.

Maguire, one in every of 11 first-time winners on the LPGA Tour this 12 months, had four-straight birdies across the flip and added one other pair late on in her gorgeous spherical that has catapulted her into competition for the $2 million prize pot at Tiburon Golf Membership.

Her principal contender for the money, Ko, had a five-shot result in begin the third spherical – seven pictures forward of Maguire – however a combination of birdies and bogeys stalled her spherical. She fell one shot behind Maguire at one stage till chipping to tap-in vary on the par-five seventeenth on her technique to a spherical of 70.

The forecast for Sunday’s last spherical is for rain and 20 mph gusts of wind. “Nothing I am not used to from Eire,” Maguire mentioned when she completed her spherical.

“In the end simply received to exit and play in addition to I probably can, and particularly if there’s unhealthy climate, that is all you’ll be able to management. Trying ahead to 1 final stroll of the season tomorrow.”

Maguire and Ko have a five-shot benefit over former US Girls’s Open champion, Korea’s Jeon-Geun Lee, and Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh.

Elsewhere, Brooke Henderson stored her slim hopes alive for participant of the 12 months. The Canadian, who needed to withdraw final week with a again harm, had two eagles in her spherical of 65 and was at nine-under, six behind the leaders.

Henderson should win the CME Group Tour Championship and have Ko end third or worse to win participant of the 12 months.

Watch the ultimate spherical of the LPGA Tour’s CME Group Tour Championship on Sunday from 7pm, reside on Sky Sports activities Golf and – totally free – on the Sky Sports activities Golf YouTube channel.