LPGA TOUR FOUNDERS CUP

FROM ESPN.COM
PHOENIX -- Sei Young Kim set up a Sunday shoot-out in the desert with a sloppy third-round finish.
Kim stumbled late Saturday afternoon in the JTBC Founders Cup, handing the lead to Eun-Hee Ji and promoting Stacy Lewis, Lydia Ko and many others into far better position than they expected.
Three strokes ahead after an eagle on the par-4 13th, Kim failed to birdie the par-5 15th and bogeyed the par-4 16th and par-3 17th. Her 2-under 70 dropped her into a tie for second with Lewis, a stroke behind Ji.
"It's OK. I have one day, tomorrow," said Kim, the LPGA Tour rookie of the year last season after winning three times. "I like to play the chase on the lead. It's more comfortable to me."
She was 2 over on the final five holes, while Ji and Lewis were each 3 under.
Ji made a 12-foot birdie putt on 17 and finished with a 65 to reach 18-under 198 on another perfect day at Desert Ridge's Wildfire Golf Club. She is winless since the 2009 U.S. Women's Open.
"My putting was really good," Ji said. "My iron shot was really good, too. I was really struggling with my irons the last couple of weeks, but it's getting better this week.

Lewis had a 64, closing with a 4-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th.
"These scores are just ridiculous," she said. "You just can't look at a leaderboard. You just go out there and make as many birdies as you can."
Lewis won the event in 2013 and finished second the last two years. She has nine runner-up finishes in a 43-event victory drought that dates to June 2014.
"I'm just really happy to see some good scores going up," Lewis said.
Jacqui Concolino was two strokes back after a 68. The top-ranked Ko, Carlota Ciganda and Paula Creamer were another shot behind. Ko and Ciganda shot 64, and Paula Creamer had a 67.
"When I saw some of the highlights of the leaders, they seem like they were holing a lot of putts, and that's what I wasn't doing the first two days," Ko said. "I was a lot better today."
Kim opened with rounds of 63 and 66 to break the tournament 36-hole record at 15 under and take a two-stroke lead into the weekend. She threatened to make it a runaway when she eagled the 240-yard 13th, hitting a 3-wood to the fringe and holing a 30-foot putt, but soon found trouble.
Her iron approach sailed left into a bunker and she two-putted for par on the 15th, the par 5 she birdied Thursday and eagled Friday.  
Kim and Concolino were the only players in the top 16 on the leaderboard to fail to birdie or eagle the hole.
On the 16th, her wedge from 90 yards went over the green into thick rough, leaving a difficult shot over a ridge. She didn't get the chip all the way up the ridge and it rolled down and across the green. That left her a 40-foot par try that stopped on the left edge.
Her 9-iron went left on 17 and rolled down a hill into thin rough 50 feet from the pin. She hit her chip all the way to the opposite edge of the green and missed a 15-foot par putt.
On 18, she used the grandstand behind the green to escape with a par. In the right rough with a tree in front of her, she played a low shot under the tree that raced through the green and into the bottom of the stadium structure. 
Kim got a free drop and putted from the fringe to 2 feet. Without the grandstand to stop it, the ball would have kept rolling and she would have faced a longer and more difficult third shot.
"Pretty good last hole," Kim said. "Up-and-down, make the par."
U.S. Women's Amateur champion Hannah O'Sullivan followed her second-round 64 with a 72 to drop into a tie for 47th at 8 under. The 17-year-old is a high school senior in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler.


THIRD ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 216 (3x72)

1	Eun-Hee Ji	66	67	65					198
T2	Sei-Young Kim	63	66	70					199
T2	Stacy Lewis	70	65	64					199
4	Jacqui Concolino	68	64	68					200
T5	Paula Creamer	69	65	67					201
T5	Carlota Ciganda	70	67	64					201
T5	Lydia Ko	70	67	64					201
T8	Brittany Lang	63	68	71					202
T8	Kim Kaufman	67	68	67					202
T8	Pernilla Lindberg	65	70	67					202
T8	Brooke M Henderson	68	69	65					202
T12	Mirim Lee	68	68	67					203
T12	Ryann O'Toole	68	66	69					203
T12	Megan Khang	68	69	66					203
T12	Mi Hyang Lee	62	75	66					203
T12	Budsabakorn Sukapan	70	68	65					203
T17	Minjee Lee	65	69	70					204
T17	Gerina Piller	65	68	71					204
T17	Karine Icher	67	67	70					204
T17	Paula Reto	67	67	70					204
T17	Jennifer Johnson	67	69	68					204
T17	So Yeon Ryu	70	66	68					204
T23	Sakura Yokomine	68	68	69					205
T23	Sun Young Yoo	67	69	69					205
T23	Sydnee Michaels	69	68	68					205
T23	Sung Hyun Park	66	71	68					205
T23	Anna Nordqvist	65	73	67					205
T23	Pornanong Phatlum	67	71	67					205
T23	Alena Sharp	73	68	64					205
T23	Jenny Shin	67	72	66					205
T31	Giulia Sergas	64	68	74					206
T31	Cristie Kerr	69	66	71					206
T31	Mo Martin	67	70	69					206
T31	Se Ri Pak	69	68	69					206
T31	Sadena Parks	69	68	69					206
T31	Shanshan Feng	71	66	69					206
T31	Candie Kung	68	70	68					206
T31	Ha Na Jang	70	68	68					206
T31	Amelia Lewis	70	68	68					206
T31	Na Yeon Choi	71	69	66					206
T31	Thidapa Suwannapura	70	69	67					206
T42	Moriya Jutanugarn	70	67	70					207
T42	Mika Miyazato	68	69	70					207
T42	Hyo-Joo Kim	69	69	69					207
T42	Brittany Lincicome	70	68	69					207
T42	Christina Kim	72	68	67					207
T47	Hannah O'Sullivan	72	64	72					208
T47	Bertine Strauss	69	67	72					208
T47	Mina Harigae	70	68	70					208
T47	Kelly Tan	69	68	71					208
T47	Casey Grice	71	67	70					208
T47	Nontaya Srisawang	73	68	67					208
T53	Caroline Masson	69	66	74					209
T53	Jennifer Song	67	69	73					209
T53	Jodi Ewart Shadoff	74	66	69					209
T53	Juli Inkster	70	70	69					209
T53	Lindy Duncan	71	70	68					209
T53	Azahara Munoz	71	70	68					209
T59	Vicky Hurst	71	66	73					210
T59	Cydney Clanton	68	70	72					210
T59	Ariya Jutanugarn	67	71	72					210
T59	Wei-Ling Hsu	69	72	69					210
T59	Amy Yang	75	66	69					210
T64	Belen Mozo	69	72	70					211
T64	Katherine Kirk	73	68	70					211
T64	Haru Nomura	71	70	70					211
T64	Maude-Aimee Leblanc	73	68	70					211
68	Tiffany Joh	70	70	72					212
T69	Annie Park	66	72	75					213
T69	Katie Burnett	68	70	75					213
T69	Laura Davies	70	68	75					213
T69	Felicity Johnson	72	67	74					213
T69	Joanna Klatten	68	72	73					213
T74	Beatriz Recari	71	70	73   214