LPGA Championship 2014: Day 3 Leaderboard Scores, Analysis, Reaction

Moving day at Monroe Golf Club in Pittsford, New York, at the 2014 LPGA Championship lived up to its name as the leaderboard took one last significant shuffle before Sunday's final round.

Brittany Lincicome was able to fend off the rest of the field and sits alone in the lead. She should in no way feel safe, though, as last year's winner, Inbee Park, and a red-hot Suzann Pettersen sit one shot back and have enough momentum to steal the show.

It was a rough day on the course all around, but the leaderboard is in no way ready to crown a winner just yet.

Let's take a look at the leaderboard to date as Sunday's final round nears, with a breakdown of the most notable results to boot.

Day 3 Leaderboard

Pos.	Golfer	To Par	R1	R2	R3
1	Brittany Lincicome	-10	67	68	71
T2	Suzann Pettersen	-9	71	69	67
T2	Inbee Park	-9	72	66	69
4	Mirim Lee	-7	69	71	69
T5	Gerina Piller	-6	72	69	69
T5	Meena Lee	-6	66	73	71
T5	Lydia Ko	-6	70	69	71
T8	Anna Nordqvist	-5	69	73	69
T8	Shanshan Feng	-5	68	72	71
T8	Jane Park	-5	70	69	-
T11	Tiffany Joh	-4	70	72	70

The No. 3 player in the world continued her resurgent form Saturday, to say the least. Park shot two birdies on the front nine and two birdies and a bogey on the back end to rest at nine under and just one shot off the lead.

As GolfChannel.com's Randall Mell notes, both Park and Lincicome are scary names to have near the top because of their very different strengths:

For the astute readers, this also sets up one heck of a fascinating final day that should present a war of contrasting styles.

Lincicome had some wiggle room Saturday for error as she entered with a three-shot lead, and she needed it. She shot a bogey and two birdies on the front nine and a pair of bogeys and birdies on the back half despite once again surging off the tee for an average driving distance of 277.5 yards and connecting on 11 of 14 fairways.

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Fans know that this was somewhat to be expected from Lincicome, though. Even she admitted before the third round that inconsistency had marred her recent performances.

"I feel like I've been doing a lot of really good things," Lincicome said, per The Associated Press, via USA Today. "I feel like I've been playing really well, driving it far, which is awesome. But it's just not coming together."

It is getting a bit suffocating at the top, though.

After a 71 and 69 on Thursday and Friday, respectively, Pettersen freed herself from the pack and shot a 67 on the day. Things looked drab at first thanks to a bogey on the par-three No. 1, but she then rattled off six straight birdies.

As Mell points out, Pettersen's recent results suggest she is due for a win, too:

It was not all good news for some of the more recognizable names Saturday.

Lexi Thompson, who was tied for the lead after Thursday and three shots behind after Friday, bogeyed her first two holes before recovering with a birdie on the par-five third. She then hit one birdie and two bogeys on the back nine and finished with a 74 on the day to sit six shots off the lead. 

Thompson's cohort at the top of the Day 1 leaderboard, Meena Lee, had an up-and-down day. Just when it seemed she was going to make a dash to the very top, an untimely bogey put her back. She finished the day with four birdies to three bogeys and rests just four shots back.

The good news is that Sunday's final round is anything but predictable, as one can glean from a glance at the leaderboard. Two players sit just a single shot off the lead, and one is three shots off. Three more are four off. As the wild three days so far have shown fans, any number of moves can happen to crown an unexpected leader by the time another 18 holes are complete.

In other words, don't miss out. There are individual storylines at stake—Park is the defending champ with plenty to lose—and even group storylines—Americans have not won each major in a season since 1992.

Sunday decides a lot outside of an overall winner.

Note: All statistics courtesy of LPGAScoring.com.