NEWS RELEASE FROM L E T
Report from BETHAN CUTLER
Ladies European Tour Media Manager
AGADIR, Morocco: Gwladys Nocera will take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Lalla Meryem Cup after firing a six-under-par 65 in warm and sunny conditions at Golf de l’Ocean in Adadir on Morocco's breezy Atlantic coastline today.
The 38-year-old Frenchwoman ended the thid day two clear of French compatriot Sophie Giquel-Bettan, with halfway leader Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand two strokes further back.
Nocera made a relatively slow start with two birdies and one bogey on the front nine, but she picked up the pace with five birdies on the back nine at holes 10, 11, 14, 16 and 18 to reach 11-under-par after three rounds.
“Today was not so good on the front nine. I struggled a little bit but I don’t know, I played two rounds with bad putting and managed to shoot a good score so I just thought, ‘keep going, they will drop,’ and I made a few more on the back nine,” Nocera said.
Giquel-Bettan, the Portugal Open champion in 2007, is in the hunt for her first LET title in seven years after a third-round 67 which included seven birdies and three bogeys.
She said: “I’m very happy. I think I played really well today. I was minus three after five holes, putting good and hitting the ball good. I missed two shots from the tee, so two bogeys and back to minus one.
"I was kind of frustrated because the players I was playing with were playing well also. I felt I had to make some birdies and I hit some good shots after but couldn’t make any. I tried to relax and make good putts and roll the ball well and I finished with three birdies.”
Defending champion Jutanugarn, who took eight months out last year through injury, struggled with her irons and slipped down into third place after a one-over-par 72, but is still in contention just four strokes from the lead.  
She said: “Today I played not very good. My driver was okay but my irons were so bad and I had some long putts and my putting didn’t help.”
It’s a tightly jammed leader board with four players only five shots from the lead on six-under-par. They are Thailand’s Titiya Plucksataporn, English duo Holly Clyburn and Charley Hull and French amateur Mathilda Cappeliez, who is aged 15 and two weeks older than  Lydia Ko when she won the 2013 ISPS HANDA New Zealand Women’s Open to become the youngest ever winner on the LET.
Hull, who held a one stroke lead going into the final round of the Lalla Meryem Cup 12 months ago, is chasing her first title while Clyburn is targeting her second win on the LET after the Deloitte Ladies Open last year.
THIRD ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 213 (3x71)

202 Gwladys Nocera (FRA)  69 68 65
204 Sophie Giquel-Bettan (FRA)  67 70 67
206 Ariya Jutanugarn (THA)  68 66 72
207 Mathilda Cappeliez (FRA) (am) 72 64 71, Charley Hull (ENG)  68 71 68, Holly Clyburn (ENG)  70 70 67, Titiya Plucksataporn (THA)  72 70 65
208 Lee-Anne Pace (RSA)  70 68 70, Rebecca Hudson (ENG)  66 72 70, Laura Davies (ENG)  68 69 71, Margherita Rigon (ITA)  69 70 69, Sophie Walker (ENG)  66 71 71, Hannah Burke (ENG)  73 70 65, Valentine Derrey (FRA)  71 72 65
209 Trish Johnson (ENG)  72 67 70
210 Kim Williams (RSA)  74 70 66, Diana Luna (ITA)  70 70 70, Joanna Klatten (FRA)  72 72 66, Rebecca Codd (IRL)  69 71 70, Vikki Laing (SCO)  70 71 69, Nina Holleder (GER)  68 68 74, Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)  73 70 67
211 Stefania Croce (ITA)  72 71 68, Liz Young (ENG)  72 69 70, Stephanie Na (AUS)  72 68 71, Linda Wessberg (SWE)  71 70 70, Stacy Lee Bregman (RSA)  71 71 69, Karolin Lampert (GER)  69 72 70
212 Klara Spilkova (CZE)  74 69 69, Nicole Broch Larsen (DEN)  71 73 68, Mireia Prat (ESP)  74 68 70, Beth Allen (USA)  69 71 72, Lauren Taylor (ENG)  72 73 67, Chloe Leurquin (BEL)  74 70 68, Jing Yan (CHN) (am)  68 73 71
213 Mallory Fraiche (USA)  70 75 68, Miriam Nagl (GER)  75 68 70, Celine Herbin (FRA)  71 71 71, Nobuhle Dlamini (SWZ)  69 69 75, Melanie Maetzler (SUI)  75 68 70
214 Marion Ricordeau (FRA)  72 72 70, Sally Watson (SCO)  72 71 71, Noora Tamminen (FIN)  74 70 70, Marta Silva Zamora (ESP)  73 69 72, Nontaya Srisawang (THA)  73 70 71, Adriana Brent (AUS)  69 73 72, Maria Balikoeva (RUS)  71 72 71, Charlotte Thompson (ENG)  71 72 71
215 Florentyna Parker (ENG)  73 69 73, Jade Schaeffer (FRA)  73 71 71, Kylie Walker (SCO)  71 74 70, Maria Salinas (PER)  71 71 73, Ursula Wikstrom (FIN)  72 72 71, Sophie Sandolo (ITA)  71 72 72
216 Ann-Kathrin Lindner (GER)  72 73 71, Heather MacRae (SCO)  73 68 75, Ariane Provot (FRA)  72 71 73, Fiona Puyo (FRA)  72 69 75, Olivia Mehaffey (IRL) (am) 72 73 71, Bonita Bredenhann (NAM)  71 73 72
217 Caroline Afonso (FRA)  70 74 73, Carin Koch (SWE)  70 75 72, Cathryn Bristow (NZL)  71 71 75
220 Elina Nummenpaa (FIN)  73 72 75, Pamela Feggans (SCO)  74 71 75, Becky Brewerton (WAL)  71 72 77
222 Alison Whitaker (AUS)  72 72 78

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