Australians Green and Lee move into
the lead after 3 rounds of LPGA Singapore
[February 28, 2026]
SINGAPORE (AP) — Australians Hannah Green and Minjee Lee
moved to the top of the leaderboard Saturday to lead by one stroke
after three rounds of the HSBC Women’s World Championship.
Green, the 2019 Women’s PGA Championship winner and who won the
Singapore tournament in 2024, shot a 4-under 68 and three-time major
winner Lee 69 to post three-round totals of 11-under 205 at the
Sentosa Golf Club.
American Angel Yin (68) and Haeran Ryu (70) of South Korea were tied
for third in the LPGA tournament.
With the final group on the eighth hole, six players were tied for
the lead at 9-under. Yin took the lead for first time with a birdie
from off the green on the 10th, displacing her fellow American
Auston Kim, who had led after the first two rounds.
Kim had back-to-back bogeys on the seventh and eighth to fall out of
the lead, but it could have been worse. After seeing her ball
plugged in hazard off the green on the eighth hole and having to
return to the fairway to hit her fifth shot, she sank a 20-foot putt
for bogey to minimize the damage.
Kim finished with a 73 and was tied for sixth at 8-under, three
behind Green and Lee.
“Definitely, there are a lot of birdies to be made but it’s very
easy to make bogey," Green said. “So I think just limiting as many
of those as possible.
“I’ve been hitting the ball into the greens, so if I can continue to
do that, and even though I’m playing with Minjee, we are good
friends, I don’t want to get too caught up in what her scores are.”
Yin said the margins were close in the third round.
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Hannah Green of Australia tees off during the HSBC Women's World
Championship at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, Thursday, Feb. 26,
2026. (AP Photo/Suhaimi Abdullah)
“Good golf and good luck. Honestly there’s nothing
much you can do to it," Yin said. "There’s a lot of instances today
where it was like one hole, I made this unbelievable up-and-down.
That’s skill and luck to me. So get lucky and get good.”
Lee won her first major in 2021 at the Evian Championship, her
second at the U.S. Women’s Open in 2022 and her third at last year’s
Women’s PGA Championship.
Top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul, who won last week’s tournament in her
native Thailand, shot 70 Saturday that left her at 3-under. She was
tied with defending champion Lydia Ko and Brooke Henderson, who each
shot 71, all eight strokes behind the leading Australians.
The 72-player, no-cut tournament is the second of three stops on the
LPGA’s early year Asian swing, with the final one next week at
Hainan Island, China.
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