Ashok moved to 22-under for the event and has a seven-shot cushion over Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol, who’s 15-under after a third-round 69.

The world quantity 47 Ashok, who agonisingly missed a medal on the Tokyo Olympics by one stroke, carded 9 birdies and an eagle two, spectacularly holing her strategy shot on the par-four ninth.

But the top-ranked participant within the subject, China’s Yin, slumped to a two-over par spherical and gold seems a forlorn hope for the US PGA Champion.

She tumbled down the leaderboard right into a tie for ninth, an enormous 13 photographs behind runaway chief Ashok.

Instead it was world quantity 13 Lin Xiyu who seems more likely to get on the rostrum on dwelling soil, after her third-round 68 took her to 14-under and into bronze medal place with one spherical to play.

She has a three-shot buffer to Japanese novice Saki Baba, who’s in fourth place on 11-under after a 68.

In the boys’s, rookie professional Kho moved to 24-under par and nonetheless in a robust place.

But Hung Chien-yao’s 67 halved the deficit with a spherical containing six birdies and only one dropped shot for the Taiwanese participant, on the par-three seventh.

South Korean novice Jang Yu-bin is in bronze place on 20-under after a 68 along with his US PGA Tour star teammate Im Sung-jae lurking ominously one-stroke again in fourth after a 66.

Im, the world quantity 27, moved to 19-under however may have actually turned the screws and was heading for a spherical of 64 till a double-bogey on the final noticed him slip out of the highest three.

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