Angel Yin and Allisen Corpuz Tied for Lead at Chevron Championship

The first winner at the Chevron Championship’s new Houston home will be determined tomorrow afternoon and two young LPGA stars—Angel Yin and Allisen Corpuz—are in prime position at the top of a stacked leaderboard.

Seven players sit within just two shots of the leaders, including world No. 2 Nelly Korda at 8-under and Amy Yang, who has 19 top-10 finishes in major championships, at 9-under.

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Yin, known for her bubbly and brutally honest personality, started the day three shots back of Round 2 leader A Lim Kim, but fired a 5-under 67 to take a share of the lead heading into Sunday’s round.

The Los Angeles, Calif. native carded six birdies and one bogey at The Club at Carlton Woods’s Nicklaus course, including a birdie on the par-5 18th to join Corpuz atop the leaderboard. Yin is one of the longer hitters on the LPGA Tour and that asset has been key to her performance on the lengthy 6,824 yard set-up.

After hitting her approach into her final hole of the day, Yin was caught light-heartedly expressing her exhaustion after the third round of the tough major championship test: “I’m seeing stars right now, I’m so tired right now.”

"I'm seeing stars. I'm so tired"

Angel Yin is feeling it after another great approach in Texas

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Yin and Corpuz, who have known each other for more than 10 years, were paired in the same grouping on Saturday. Like Yin, Corpuz started the day three shots back of the lead, but put together a bogey-free card to grab a share of the lead.

Hailing from Honolulu, Corpuz came out of the gates hot on Saturday afternoon, making three straight birdies on her opening holes and another on the par-4 5th. Corpuz’s round was steady from there on out—she made 12 pars and one more birdie on the par-5 13th to cap off the stellar day.

Both Yin and Corpuz have yet to capture their first LPGA victories. Corpuz, 25, graduated from USC in 2021 and is in the midst of her second year on Tour. Justin Silverstein, the head coach of the USC women’s golf program, has said that Corpuz is one of the best iron players he’s ever seen.

Yin, 24, was a junior golf phenom and turned professional back in 2016, choosing to forgo college. She made the 2017 Solheim Cup team as a captain’s pick after posting five top-5 finishes that season.

Megan Khang, a two-time Solheim Cup Team USA member, sits one shot back of Corpuz and Yin. She is joined by Yang and Albane Valenzuela, a Stanford University product from Switzerland.