Ha Na Jang leads by one heading into final 

round of HSBC Women's Champions

FROM THE LPGA TOUR WEBSITE 
 Ha Na Jang had her second-consecutive bogey-free round on the Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club, Singapore  and used a round of 68 to take the outright lead after 54 holes at the HSBC Women’s Champions. 
The 23-year old from Korea sits atop the leaderboard at 12-under par and leads Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum (68) by one shot. Jang had a balanced day with two birdies on both the front and back nine and extended her bogey-free streak to 40 holes. 
Amy Yang and Mirim Lee are tied for third at 10-under par. Eleven players are within five shots of the lead.

Jang has been solid statistically all week and leads the field in driving accuracy (90.5%) and ranks second in greens in regulation (83.3%). She hit all 14 fairways on Saturday and missed just one green.

“Yesterday, sometimes a little miss green but today just like one miss is really fantastic right now,” said Jang. 
“A couple more shots like yesterday, after the round I practice on the range, so it was really good today. Then the putter is a little bit, missed it, but okay, just one more day, it’s no problem.”

This will mark the fourth time Jang holds at least a share of the 54-hole lead and the second time she will hold the lead outright heading into Sunday’s final round. 
She won her first LPGA title last month at the Coates Golf Championship when she went into the final 18 holes tied for the lead with world No. 1 Lydia Ko. The last time she held the outright lead was last year when she lost in a playoff to Chella Choi at the Marathon Classic.

She said it’s definitely a position she covets and sees it as a huge reason to have some built-up confidence going into tomorrow.

“But just a little more confidence and then very comfortable in my mind and pride in myself,” said Jang.
 “I talk to every hole in myself, just keep going, ‘Ha Na, don’t think about it anymore, just keep playing golf.’”

Pornanong Phatlum, who is seeking her first LPGA title, had six birdies and two bogeys in her round of 68. The top-ranked Thai player said her preparation for Sunday’s final round won’t be done on the range or putting green but in her head.

“Maybe tomorrow I have to prepare myself, like my mental, before going out on the course,” said Phatlum. “Have to be ready, like don’t think too much like today.”

Six players are tied for fifth at 8-under and four shots back including No. 4 Stacy Lewis, two-time major champ Suzann

Pettersen and 18-year old Canadian-Scot Brooke MacKenzie Henderson. 
Ariya Jutanugarn had the low round of the day – 6-under par 66 – and moved from a tie for 25th into a tie for 5th. Rolex Rankings No. 1 Lydia Ko made the most of moving day and climbed 21 spots up the leaderboard to T20 after a round of 67. Her third round was seven shots better than her 74 on Friday.

“I wouldn’t call it lousy, I just didn’t strike the ball very well the last two days and I hit the ball much better today,” said Ko.
 “I got a few putts to go in. They weren’t very long, but I just played much more solid, and you know, when you play a bogey-free round, especially a course like this, it kind of means I was scrambling well, and I was hitting the ball pretty solid.”

THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD

 PAR 216 (3x72)

1	Ha Na Jang	70	66	68	.				204
2	Pornanong Phatlum	70	67	68					205
T3	Mirim Lee	69	67	70					206
T3	Amy Yang	71	67	68					206
T5	Suzann Pettersen	68	69	71					208
T5	Chella Choi	70	70	68					208
T5	Na Yeon Choi	70	70	68					208
T5	Stacy Lewis	71	69	68					208
T5	Brooke Henderson	70	71	67					208
T5	Ariya Jutanugarn	73	69	66					208
T11	Candie Kung	67	72	70					209
T11	Minjee Lee	67	73	69					209
T13	Shanshan Feng	69	69	72					210
T13	Carlota Ciganda	70	71	69					210
T13	Paula Creamer	72	67	71					210
T13	Haru Nomura	71	68	71					210
T17	Gerina Piller	70	68	73					211
T17	Hyo-Joo Kim	70	72	69					211
T17	Anna Nordqvist	70	72	69					211
T20	Karine Icher	73	69	70					212
T20	Jessica Korda	71	69	72					212
T20	Jenny Shin	72	69	71					212
T20	Cristie Kerr	70	75	67					212
T20	Lydia Ko	71	74	67					212
T25	Sei-Young Kim	73	67	73					213
T25	Mika Miyazato	68	75	70					213
T25	Morgan Pressel	71	69	73					213
T25	Sandra Gal	70	74	69					213
T25	Hee Young Park	70	74	69					213
T25	Lexi Thompson	71	72	70					213
T31	Sun Ju Ahn	69	69	76					214
T31	I.K. Kim	72	71	71					214
T31	Mo Martin	72	69	73					214
T31	Lee-Anne Pace	68	72	74					214
T31	Angela Stanford	70	72	72					214
T36	Sakura Yokomine	73	74	68					215
T36	Azahara Munoz	72	73	70					215
T38	Ilhee Lee	69	78	69					216
T38	Lizette Salas	73	73	70					216
T38	Charley Hull	71	73	72					216
T38	Xiyu Lin	75	69	72					216
T38	So Yeon Ryu	73	72	71					216
T38	Alison Lee	72	70	74					216
T38	Inbee Park	68	73	75					216
45	Karrie Webb	72	72	73					217
46	Pernilla Lindberg	70	74	74					218
T47	Julieta Granada	75	73	71					219
T47	Brittany Lincicome	74	74	71					219
T47	Mi Hyang Lee	69	76	74					219
50	Eun-Hee Ji	72	74	74					220
T51	Jing Yan	74	77	70					221
T51	Ai Miyazato	77	73	71					221
T51	Kris Tamulis	70	73	78					221
T54	Kim Kaufman	78	72	72					222
T54	Brittany Lang	74	75	73					222
T54	Michelle Wie	75	72	75					222
T54	Sun Young Yoo	73	76	73					222
T58	Sock Hwee Koh	76	73	74					223
T58	Mariajo Uribe	76	74	73					223
T60	Jane Park	82	70	73					225
T60	Melissa Reid	80	70	75					225
62	Yani Tseng	76	77	73					226