Annabel Dimmock moved into competition for a primary Girls European Tour victory in 5 years after grabbing a two-shot lead after three rounds on the KPMG Girls’s Irish Open.
Dimmock adopted a second-round 66 with a sensational bogey-free 65 on Saturday on the O’Meara Course at Carlton Home, carding eight birdies to register the bottom spherical of the week and head into the ultimate day on 16 beneath.
The Englishwoman took benefit of the primary two par-fives on the entrance 9 and adopted a birdie on the seventh with back-to-back beneficial properties across the flip, earlier than three birdies over the ultimate 4 holes lifted her high of the leaderboard.
Dimmock’s whole noticed her break the course document for the second successive day and depart her two forward of midway chief Ursula Wikstrom, with Alessandra Fanali and Spain’s Luna Sobron Galmes an extra two strokes again and tied-third on 12 beneath.
“No matter what happens tomorrow [Sunday], this week has been huge for me,” mentioned Dimmock, who has performed a restricted schedule since thumb surgical procedure final yr. “To know that I am nonetheless there, do not forget about me. It has been a extremely tough eight months that I used to be out.
“I will go out there and stick to my game plan and I said to my dad at the start of the week that if I can swing in this good tempo all week, we’ve won this week. That’s what I’m going to go out there and do tomorrow.”
Over 12,000 followers have been in attendance on Saturday, a document because it returned to the Girls European Tour schedule in 2022, with Wikstrom nonetheless in competition after a four-under 69 lifted her to 14 beneath.
Ursula Wikstrom had held the midway lead after back-to-back 68s over the primary two days
“Today was a little bit tougher out there,” Wikstrom mentioned. “The wind was much tougher, so it made it not that easy to get it close to the pins. My putter was not as hot, but luckily towards the end it was getting a bit better.”
Fanali and Sobron carded third-round 70s to stay inside 4 of the lead, whereas France’s Pauline Roussin-Bouchard is in outright fifth place on 11 beneath.
Sweden’s Corinne Viden and Australia’s Kirsten Rudgeley are only one shot additional again in tied-sixth, whereas Slovenia’s Pia Babnik, Belgium’s Manon De Roey, Sweden’s Linnea Johansson and Switzerland’s Chiara Tamburlini all sit inside the highest 10.
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Solheim Cup stars Leona Maguire and Georgia Corridor each head into the ultimate day 11 again and in tied-Twenty seventh, having each carded one-under 72s on Saturday.
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