Group 34 – 1:45 p.m.
Charley Hull and Sei Young Kim
In search of their first major victories, Charley Hull and Sei Young Kim will be paired together on moving day at the RICOH Women’s British Open. Hull has played unofficial host this week at her home course of Woburn Golf Club where this year’s championship is being staged. Hull enters the final round at five-under par, six strokes back of leader Mirim Lee. Hull finished T-2 at the season’s first major, the ANA Inspiration and followed that with a 16th place finish at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She missed the cut at the last major, the U.S. Women’s Open.
Kim is a five-time winner on tour who has already won twice in 2016. The 2015 Rookie of the Year missed the cut in this event last year and is off to a much stronger start en route to posting her best finish major finish of the year after finishing 11th at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in June.
Group 36 – 2:05 p.m.
Mo Martin and Ha Na Jang
2014 RICOH Women’s Open Champion Mo Martin and Ha Na Jang are paired together during Saturday’s third round. Martin’s only victory on Tour came at Royal Birkdale in 2014. Martin has finished in the top-21 in all three major championships in 2016 including a T-14 at the ANA Inspiration. Martin enters the third round at eight-under par, three-strokes back of the lead.
Jang is a two-time winner in 2016, who won the Coates Golf Championship and HSBC Women’s Champions in February and March. Since her victories, Jang has missed several events dealing with an ongoing illness she has sought testing and treatment for. But she has showed signs of returning to form in recent weeks, finishing eighth in her last start at the Marathon Classic. Jang enters the final round at nine-under par after making bogey on two of her last three holes on Friday to fall out of a share of the lead with Mirim Lee.
Group 38 – 2:25 p.m.
Mirim Lee and Shanshan Feng
36-hole leader Mirim Lee is paired with Shanshan Feng on moving day at the RICOH Women’s British Open. Lee will look to achieve what she has been unable to do yet this season in continuing the momentum she’s found in the early rounds of a major championship. Lee held a share of the 36-hole lead and the first round lead at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and U.S. Women’s Open respectively. Lee has held both the first and second round lead this week at Woburn in search of her first major title.
Feng enters moving day at 10-under par, just one stroke back of Lee. Feng knows what it takes to win a major victory, having won her first event on the LPGA Tour at the 2012 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She has three more wins on Tour, her last victory coming in 2014 at Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia. Her best finish in the majors this season came in a T-17 at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
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