Leaderboard: -8 A Iwai (Jpn); -6 P Delacour (Fra); -5 C Hull (Eng), M Stark (Swe), R Haeran (Kor), I Jin Hee (Kor); -4 C Gainer (Eng), L Woad (Eng), J Yan (US), R Yin (Chn), B Henderson (Can), E Hara (Jpn), M Kang (Kor)
Selected others: E L Maguire (Ire); +2 L Walsh (Ire); +3 N Korda (US); +5 M Rhodes (Eng)
Charley Hull laughed disconnected suggestions her caddie's crystal pick helped occurrence her to 3rd spot aft time 1 of the Evian Championship successful confederate France.
The 30-year-old was spotted holding the saccharine dainty connected the 15th spread earlier closing with 2 birdies and an eagle to adjacent astatine 5 nether par, 3 shots down Aki Iwai of Japan's lead.
"I didn't devour it," she said. "My fellow got it for my caddie, truthful I held it for a infinitesimal erstwhile helium was putting my nine successful the bag!"
In sweltering conditions, Hull was 2 implicit par aft six holes but recovered to find 5 birdies implicit her adjacent 11 holes earlier picking up 2 shots astatine the par-five 18th.
Her people of 66 is her joint-lowest archetypal circular successful a major.
At the apical of the pack, Iwai went bogey-free successful her good circular of 8 nether par and is 2 wide of Perrine Delacour from France.
Hull shares 3rd spot with 3 different players, portion compatriots Lottie Woad and Cara Gainer are a further changeable backmost astatine 4 under.
World fig 1 Nelly Korda, who won the archetypal 2 majors of the 2026 season, has enactment to bash connected Friday aft shooting a three-over 74 to languish successful a stock of 99th place.
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