Only Stacy Lewis, three shots behind,  can stop 

Amy Yang winning US Women's Open

FROM GOLF.COM
By RANDALL MELL
LANCASTER, Pennsylvania – As busy as he was Saturday in the middle of a moving stage they call the U.S. Women’s Open, Travis Wilson enjoyed the show.
While Stacy Lewis and Amy Yang didn’t make a lot of birdie putts storming their way around Lancaster Country Club, they took turns hurling golf shots like thunderbolts at flagsticks to the delight of the giant galleries jockeying for position to see. They put on a ball-striking exhibition.
Wilson is Lewis’s long-time caddie.
“Listening to the way it was out there, the back and forth, two great golfers going at it,” Wilson said. “There was no let-up in either one.”
Yang and Lewis couldn’t shake each other in the third round. Yang shot a 1-under-par 69, giving her three consecutive rounds in the 60s to move to 8-under 202, one stroke shy the 54-hole U.S. Women’s Open record. 
Lewis matched her with a 69. She also matched Yang with three consecutive rounds in the 60s to stay three shots back going into the final round.
With Yang and Lewis paired together again in the final round, this might already be a two-woman event.
In Gee Chun (68) is four shots back. Shiho Oyama (71) is five back.
If history’s any indicator, nobody else has a chance on Sunday. In the 69-year history of the U.S. Women’s Open, nobody has come from six shots or more behind in the final round to win. 
Lewis almost did it last year, charging from six back with a 66 at Pinehurst, but she ultimately finished second to Michelle Wie by two shots.
“I think it’s is playing even harder than Pinehurst was last year,” Lewis said. “It's a little bit comparable to the Kraft Nabisco in 2011, when I was playing with Yani Tseng, where the two of us kind of separated ourselves from the field. It kind of became a two-man show there at the end. It's similar to that.”

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Lewis came from two behind Tseng at Kraft to win the first of her two major championships.
“I think I've always played better coming from behind,” Lewis said. “So I like where I am going into tomorrow.”
Yang and Lewis are both looking to script better finishes than they endured last year Pinehurst. They were both within reach of the Harton S. Semple Trophy on Sunday, only to see Wie hoisting it in the end.
Yang, 25, was tied with Wie for the lead going into the final round but shot 74. Yang, who has won seven times around the world, twice in LPGA events, keeps showing she has a game built for the U.S. Women’s Open. She just hasn’t been able to win one. 
She has finished among the top 10 in four of the last five U.S. Women’s Open. This marks the third time Yang has played in a final Sunday pairing in one. She was with Na Yeon Choi in 2012 when Choi won at Blackwolf Run. Yang believes those experiences will prove valuable Sunday.
“It was good experience, the last two,” Yang said. “I’ll go out there and just do my best.”
Yang and Lewis got off to a dizzying start, taking turns on different ends of two-shot swings over the first two holes. Yang opened with a birdie, Lewis with a bogey. Lewis followed with a birdie at the second hole and Yang bogeyed.
There was another two-shot swing at the 14^th with Lewis going from four shots back to within two.
All the while, nobody else back in the pack made a move at them.
“I was watching the leaderboards today, waiting for someone to jump up there,” Lewis said. “It just never happened.”
Lewis, 30, ranks second for the week hitting greens in regulation (44/54). Only Chun has hit more. Yang is right behind Lewis, having hit one less green in regulation.
“I felt like I hit some great shots that put a lot of pressure on her,” Lewis said. “And then she just would respond and hit it right in there with me.
“There were multiple times today that it was iffy who was away. We were hitting shots on top of each other. In a sense, it's frustrating, because you're trying to get closer but you really can't get any closer. But it's also what you want to see. I think it's great golf.”
Yang’s caddie, David Poitevent, was also on the bag at last year’s U.S. Women’s Open.
“We started poorly last year, 4 over after four holes, but one of the things I really like about Amy is her attitude,” Poitevent said. “She has a great attitude. She doesn’t get frustrated. She bounces back. She can handle adversity.”
As good as Lewis has been the last year, she has endured her own share of adversity in a year of almosts. She hasn’t won in more than a year, but she has battled into Sunday contention countless times, recording six second-place finishes and two thirds since her last victory. She lost the year’s first major in a playoff with Brittany Lincicome at the ANA Inspiration.
Lewis feels good about her swing, and so does Yang. It bodes well for another shot-making show.
“I expect more of it tomorrow,” Lewis said.
Earlier in the day Chella Choi fired a record-setting front nine of 29 on her way to narrowly missing out on the all-time tournament low round.
The South Korean struck nine birdies in a six-under 64, but missed the chance to move closer to the leaders with a three-putt bogey from 30 feet at the last.
A par on the 18th would have seen Choi tie the championship scoring record of 63 set by Helen Alfredsson in 1994, but she saw her three-foot putt curl wide.

"I made birdies a lot today, so my putting is good,” Choi said. “I’ve played really good in the last couple of weeks but I wasn’t making a lot of putts, so I changed  my putter. It feels different.”
Choi is one of four players tied on two under, including defending champion Wie and world No 1 Inbee Park, who closed a second successive 70 after completing 16 of the 18 holes in regulation. 
World No 2 Lydia Ko is in a tie for 18th after posting a one-under 69. while England's Charley Hull dropped three shots on the final five holes to slip four over for the tournament. 

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THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
 Par 210 (3x70)

1	Amy Yang	67	66	69	.				202
2	Stacy Lewis	69	67	69					205
3	In Gee Chun	68	70	68					206
4	Shiho Oyama	70	66	71					207
T5	Mi Hyang Lee	68	72	68					208
T5	Inbee Park	68	70	70					208
T5	Chella Choi	71	73	64					208
T5	Michelle Wie	72	68	68					208
T9	Jane Park	66	72	71					209
T9	Min Lee	71	68	70					209
T9	Morgan Pressel	68	70	71					209
T12	Rumi Yoshiba	70	68	72					210
T12	Pernilla Lindberg	70	70	70					210
T12	So Yeon Ryu	72	68	70					210
T12	Ryann O'Toole	71	70	69					210
T12	Ai Suzuki	70	71	69					210
T12	Kris Tamulis	72	69	69					210
T18	Marina Alex	66	71	74					211
T18	Na Yeon Choi	67	74	70					211
T18	Karrie Webb	66	72	73					211
T18	Lydia Ko	70	72	69					211
T18	Jung-Min Lee	70	71	70					211
T18	Sydnee Michaels	68	74	69					211
T18	Jenny Shin	74	68	69					211
T18	Brooke Henderson	70	73	68					211
T18	Lexi Thompson	71	72	68					211
T18	Sakura Yokomine	71	73	67					211
T28	Lizette Salas	71	69	72					212
T28	Angela Stanford	71	69	72					212
T28	Q Baek	70	71	71					212
T28	Brittany Lang	70	70	72					212
T28	Laura Davies	70	72	70					212
T28	Azahara Munoz	69	72	71					212
T28	Teresa Lu	71	71	70					212
T35	Candie Kung	71	70	72					213
T35	Lee Lopez	71	70	72					213
T37	Ayako Uehara	71	70	73					214
T37	Megan Khang	71	70	73					214
T37	Erika Kikuchi	71	71	72					214
T37	Austin Ernst	68	74	72					214
T37	Charley Hull	71	72	71					214
T42	Paula Creamer	69	73	73					215
T42	Sei-Young Kim	73	67	75					215
T42	Muni He	68	74	73					215
T42	I.K. Kim	74	69	72					215
T42	Mo Martin	71	72	72					215
T42	Gerina Piller	71	72	72					215
T42	Karine Icher	73	71	71					215
T42	Kim Kaufman	72	72	71					215
T42	Mariel Galdiano	70	74	71					215
T42	Ha Na Jang	72	72	71					215
T42	Danielle Kang	71	73	71					215
T53	Lala Anai	71	70	75					216
T53	Maria Balikoeva	74	69	73					216
T53	Emma Talley	70	72	74					216
T53	Jaye Marie Green	71	73	72					216
T53	Mirim Lee	71	73	72					216
T58	Hannah O'Sullivan	72	71	74					217
T58	Alison Lee	70	73	74					217
60	M.J. Hur	73	69	76					218
T61	Haruka Morita-Wanyaolu	71	73	75					219
T61	Lee-Anne Pace	73	69	77					219
63	Elizabeth Nagel	68	75	83					226