Golf: Ko still in touch at Swinging Skirts event

Lydia Ko. Photo / Getty Images.

Lydia Ko is three strokes back from the leader heading in to tomorrow's final round of the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic in San Francisco.

The Kiwi fired a one-under 71 during her third round today which has taken her to six-under for the week, three behind Brooke Henderson who leads the event at nine-under. Ko holds fourth place.

Henderson, 17, has a one-stroke advantage over Morgan Pressel and Min Seo Kwak who are in a tie for second at eight-under.

Ko, the world No 1, celebrated her 18th birthday at the tournament this week and is in the mix to defend her Swinging Skirts title.

Meanwhile, on the PGA Tour, Danny Lee is in touch with the leaders at the weather-affected Zurich Classic in Louisiana.

Lee was even through five holes of his third round and remained at 10-under for the week, three back from American Erik Compton and Australian Jason Day who have a share of first.

Compton and Day were at 13-under, a shot ahead of Justin Rose, Blayne Barber, Jerry Kelly and David Hearn at TPC Louisiana when play was suspended because of darkness. Compton finished six holes, and Day played three.

The third round will resume tomorrow and Manawatu's Tim Wilkinson was in a tie for 37th at seven-under. The left-hander had played 12 holes of his third round. Hamilton's Steven Alker missed the cut.

On the European Tour, Michael Hendry was due to begin today's final round of the China Open six strokes back from the leaders.

The North Shore professional was at two-under for the week in a share of 21st and four players - Alexander Levy, Ashun Wu, David Howell and Hao-tong Li - were at eight-under.

Hendry registered his maiden win on the Japan Tour last weekend and could earn a nice result with a solid final effort today.

Kiwis Ryan Fox and Mark Brown missed the cut.