Felicity Johnson
Two-time winner on the Ladies' European Tour on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

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Yealimi Noh will be channeling her inner positivity.

This week, she's found a swing that has clicked. Her and her caddie have come up with a great plan to avoid the bunkers, her short game has saved her when she's missed the greens.

She'll be rolling with the momentum.

Haeran Ryu is in the sand again! The South Kprean decides she is a little too close to the back edge of the bunker to get a decent back swing so deliberately chips knocks her ball a few feet into the middle of the sand trap to provide an escape route with her next shot.

She has done that three times this week and it's going to cost her at least one stroke. In fact make that two.

Anyone else not having that approach?

Shiho Kuwaki, who is putting for a birdie also ends up dropping a stroke. A shocker of a hole.

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Oh dear, didn't see that coming from Lucy Li. A clumsily-played fourth hole culminates in a missed par putt from about five feet.

That'll knock her back to -5 and three shots off the lead.

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A sublime shot out the sand from Yealimi Noh at the fourth hole.

The American deftly chips to within three feet of the flag to leave herself a straightforward putt from three feet for par.

Esther Henseleit, meanwhile, drops a shot.

Sara Kouskova has made another birdie at the 15th.

Three straight birdies on the back nine has catapulted her to -3 for the tournament and leapfrogged a whole host of the world's best.

She's also just gone close to another birdie at 16.

Two holes to go and she looks set to post a target.

As Charley Hull misses a great chance to roll in her third birdie of a rollercoaster final round so far, here's how she got things going straight away at the par-three first.

Oh Charley.

Charley Hull was in prime position off the tee but takes three with her putter, so can't capitlalise on her fabulous drive and approach.

A decent chance for at least a birdie gone.

Shiho Kuwaki coughs up a shot on the fourth to slip four strokes off the lead. The 23-year-old looks a tad frustrated with that although she left herself a lot to do with a putt from 20 feet or so.

Haeran Ryu also looks a little peeved as she fails to dunk a birdie putt in from mid range. Not for the first time today, that looks to be a slight misread.

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It's not a birdie for Lucy Li at the third but a nerveless par keeps her well in touch.

As for Jeeno Thitikul, I was bullish about her prospects before the round. Bogey-par-double bogey start surely puts her too far back, even at this early stage.

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How vital is that par save at the first looking for Yealimi Noh now?

She backs it up with a birdie at the second, sliding in a straightforward putt from about 10 feet, to go eight under.

Noh's touch on the greens has been spot on so far.

Charley Hull booms a drive down the middle of the sixth fairway and that means she can whip an iron onto the green with her second to give herself a long eagle putt on the par-five sixth.

This is such a difficuly pin to get close to and she comes up six feet short with her first putt.

Haeran Ryu spent loads of time in the sand on Saturday and she's got her bucket and spade out again today as she finds the right bunker with her approach into the third.

She splashes out past the cup and can't make the return putt for her par.

Yealimi Noh misses the green on the par-three first and ends up leaving herself a tricky putt from 15 feet.

She pulls out the broomstick and calmly rolls it in.

Not a flicker of emotion from the American.

Esther Henseleit, meanwhile, has a birdie chance but squanders it.

Having bogeyed the fourth Lydia Ko saves her par on the fifth with a mid-range putt that wipes its feet before dropping.

Charley Hull regains one of the two shots she dropped on the third with a slightly uphill putt that disappears for birdie.

What a start for America's Lucy Li as she downs a monster birdie putt at the second.

She's closed to within one of the lead with Jeeno Thitikul remaining at -3 with a par.

Looks like Li has her eye on that trophy, pictured just behind her at the first tee about 20 minutes ago.

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Lottie Woad throws her head back in frustration at green on the third as birdie putt from about 12 feet whistles just past the hole. She has to settle for par.

Woad was 43rd in the putting statistics on Saturday.

So if she wants to make any inroads at all today, you'd think that she'd need the flatstick to be scorchio.

The hottest player on the course right now is Sara Kouskova from the Czech Republic.

She's just birdied the 14th hole - her seventh of the day - and moved to -2 for the tournament.

It's probably too far back to realistically challenge, but what a performance.

We'll follow her coming in to see what total she posts.

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Yealimi Noh is about to tee off.

She is aiming to become the 10th winner of the Women’s Open from the USA and the first since Lilia Vu in 2023.

Noh has one victory on the LPGA Tour, the 2025 Founders Cup and her best finish in a major is third at the 2021 Evian Championship when she finished one stroke short of reaching a play-off.

No player has held a three-stroke lead after 54-holes and failed to go on to win the Women’s Open.

Haeran Ryu has a birdie putt on the second but this is staying straight and tracks a line parallel to the hole without ever threatening it.

Shiho Kuwaki picks up a shot after a lovely approach puts her in close. It is getting tight at the top.