{"id":48964,"date":"2026-06-20T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/jing-yan-maintains-lead-in-windy-meyer-lpga-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:22:09","slug":"jing-yan-maintains-lead-in-windy-meyer-lpga-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/jing-yan-maintains-lead-in-windy-meyer-lpga-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Jing Yan maintains lead in windy Meyer LPGA Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BELMONT, Mich. (AP) &#8211; Jin Yan shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to maintain a one-shot lead at the wind-swept Meyer LPGA Classic, the final event before the major KPMG Women&#8217;s PGA Championship in Hazeltine next week.<\/p>\n<p>Yang made birdie on the par-5 18th to end his second straight bogey-free round at Brisefield Country Club. The 30-year-old American, who has never won on the LPGA Tour, posted a total of 14-under 202.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just tried to have fun with it,\u201d Yang said. &#8220;I knew it was going to be a little bit nerve-wracking because I&#8217;ve never been in this position before, but there were times when I was having late tee times and not being able to handle it very well. So I&#8217;m just trying to figure out what really works for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2nd place goes to England&#8217;s Lottie Ward. He also got a birdie on the 18th with a 68.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m just trying to get off to a good start,&#8221; Ward said of the final round. &#8220;That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re trying to do is get back in front and push early and keep the pressure on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Kathy Porter shot a 69 and was two strokes behind.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greens started to firm up on the back nine,&#8221; Porter said.<\/p>\n<p>Ying Zhi Chun shot a 65 to reach 10 under par. Su Weiling (68) and first round leader Yang Liu (70) were also at 10 under.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP Golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELMONT, Mich. (AP) &#8211; Jin Yan shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to maintain a one-shot lead at the wind-swept Meyer LPGA Classic, the final event before the major KPMG Women&#8217;s PGA Championship in Hazeltine next week. Yang made birdie on the par-5 18th to end his second straight bogey-free round at Brisefield Country Club. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-48964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}