As Minjee Lee took over women’s PGA control, three holes told stories

Frisco, Texas – As the players stumbled Ranch East fields in PGA Frisco The following Saturday a third round of six-hour exhaustion From the 2025 KPMG women’s PGA Championship, mental and physical exhaustion was obvious. The combination of smells, heat, strong greens and configuration had beaten and bruised the best in the world. All they could do was try to hang.

“Believe me, it’s so brutal here,” the World No.1 Nelly Korda said in her television interview after the round after shooting an equal 72.

“Undoubtedly testing you. I thought Erin Hills was a mental test, but Jeez, this is a real mental test.”

Added Ruoning Yin after her 72: “It was brutal there.”

Yeahlimi Noh, who shot 74 with two eagles, could smile and shake his head. “Crazy day,” Noh said.

If the big rounds are price fighting, PGA Frisco delivered Haymaker after Haymaker to the best in the world.

Cord opened with back-back bogeys. Lexi Thompson topped her second shot and torn her third in the penalty area along the way to a triple open.

As the fried nerves and contenders continued steep, a player was uncontrolled by all-by the strange winds, the rhythm of the glaciers of the game, the rock greens and the diabolic pin settings.

The driver’s border moved like a card deck while Bogey after Bogey climbed, but Minjee Lee did not turn on.

Starting on the day of the three shots of the leader of 36 holes Jeeno Thitikul, Lee faced the PGA Frisco’s “brutal” test with the patience of someone who has experience in Kazan-someone who can find peace in chaos.

She made a slight principle in the first PAR-5 hole, which played 0.60 shots on Saturday with Saturday with the wind bursting directly on the faces of the players, and followed her with other seven pars before making her first Bird in the PAR-5 ninth.

As the thiticul rode on the main rotation, Lee was stable. She didn’t force her, took her medicine when she hit a stroke and left her short game and cost her on a condition when she was asked.

By the time Lee and Thitikul reached the 14th, Lee had turned a three-stroke deficit into a lead with a blow to world no. 2. She had a pillow with five strokes over third place. This is when Lee received control of the tournament.

In Par-5 14, Lee hit three pure shots in green before rolling into an 18-foot bird blow. Thitikul made a clumsy trick and the supremacy was three. Next came par-4 15, where Lee’s shot struck the right green edge and bordered to the bunker. That was not a matter either. Lee executed a brilliant long bunker blow, exploding it in the wind and stopping it 14 inch from the hole for another bird. Finally, at Par-4 16, the second of Lee came out of the green and settled near the penalty area. But once again, Australian displayed a brilliant short game while her long step was set six meters from the hole and she rolled into the party of Pare while Thiticul made another Bogey.

The direction was now four years old.

Lee finished the day with pars at 17 and 18 to post a 69 without Bogey, beating the field average for more than seven strokes.

“She played absolutely a-game, surely,” Thiticul told Lee’s stellar game. “I mean, I never saw that miss today, at all.”

All said, Lee hit 66 percent of its roads, hit 12 greens in the regulation, chose 2.201 tee-to-green strokes and 3,534 placement. It was a main class of the championship on a day when Era surprised and irritated the rest of the field.

“I think I played really well within myself today,” Lee said. “I got the birds when I beat and made really great and uplifting when I was out of position. I think I’ll try to stay on the same game plan and take it in line tomorrow.”

This is not a new territory for Lee. She led the US 2022 women with three to 54 holes and closed with a 74 to win with four. In 2021 Evian, she rode a sizzling 64 to force a play off that won for her first big title. She also had last year’s Open Open, where she entered Sunday linked to the lead, but shot one last round 78 while Yuka Saso occupied the Lancaster Country Country Club.

Minjee Lee knows what awaits it Sunday in PGA Frisco. Pressure. Chaos. Cauldron of the main championship.

“I mean, the main Sunday is like no one else,” Lee said. “So no matter where you are, I don’t think you’re really in a comfortable position until you hold that trophy. I’ve had both experiences, and I’m sure both will help me tomorrow.”

On Saturday in North Texas, a step of American women exploded in PGA Frisco. The wind screaming, the nerves disintegrated and the contenders evacuated the steering board.

Cord fought again to post par and gave himself a chance. Thompson remained alive despite a catastrophic beginning. Thitikul is still one of only two players under the par. But all of them left on Saturday in PGA Frisco exhausted and bloodied by a six-hour attack in accurate conditions.

All except Lee, who never looked at a steering chart and never came out of its process. She just put her head down, softened the brutal conditions and marched through the scaming of the main championship that devoured everyone else, placing a 2025 kpmg women’s drowning.

One more stroll in the brutal conditions of Texas stands between Mina Lee and Major no. 3. Eighteen holes until the carving begins. Of course, Lee knows that many can happen in 18 holes. The task forward is monumental. There is a more “brutal” mountain to climb.

“We still have tomorrow to go,” Lee said with a smile before leaving to sleep in her four -stroke lead.