World No. 1 Lydia Ko, who is seeking her third straight major championship title, fired a one-under 70 for a one-shot lead after the third round of the Women's PGA Championship. The 19-year-old Kiwi made bogey on the final hole to finish at two-under 211 as she has a 54-hole lead in a major championship for the first time in her career. "You know, I'm happy with my position. I didn't really know how it finished up, because I didn't get to see what the last group finished up. But obviously I've got to be happy with it. And I've just got to stay positive," Ko said. Ko won the 2015 Evian Championship and 2016 ANA Inspiration and with a victory Sunday she would become the first to win three consecutive majors since Park In-Bee in 2013. Ko came from behind to win both of her major titles. On Saturday, she had a one-shot lead on 18 when her ball bounced off a tree near the green on the par-four 423-yard finishing hole at the Sahalee Country Club course near Seattle, Washington. That gave Brittany Lincicome had a chance to take a share of the lead with Ko, but the American three-putted the 18th for a bogey and a 71. Gerina Piller failed to connect on a 35-foot putt on 18 which would have moved her into a tie with Ko. The American finished with a par and a 71 to tie Lincicome for second place. All three will play in the final group Sunday. Canada's Brooke Henderson, who led after the first and second rounds, stumbled on Saturday as she fell out of the lead by dropping three shots on her first five holes. She recorded a second straight 73 and was two shots behind in a tie for fourth in a large group that also included Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn (68) and Anna Nordqvist (69) of Sweden. Berger stays three ahead Daniel Berger birdied two of the last three holes to retain a three-stroke lead after Saturday's third round of the FedEx St. Jude Classic as five-time major winner Phil Mickelson lurked ominously in a tie for second. American Berger, who was three ahead overnight, rebounded from a double-bogey at the par-three 14th where he found water off the tee by picking up shots at the 16th and 17th on the way to a one-under 69 at the TPC Southwind in Memphis. In pursuit of a maiden PGA Tour victory in his 50th career start, Berger posted a 10-under total of 200 with fellow Americans Mickelson (68), Steve Stricker (66) and D.A. Points (64) tied for second. Mickelson, seeking his first PGA Tour title since the 2013 British Open, briefly tied Berger for the lead when he birdied 16, but he bogeyed the 17th after missing the fairway off the tee and did well to scramble for par at the last. Wu stalks leader China's Wu Ashun was eyeing a second career European Tour title Saturday when he moved to within a shot of South Africa's Zander Lombard at the top of the Austrian Open leaderboard. Wu, 30, who became the first Chinese player to win on home soil on the European Tour when he captured the 2015 China Open, was four shots off the lead overnight. But Saturday he carded four birdies before the turn to climb up the leaderboard. His round of 69 moved him to 10 under for the tournament. — Agencies
