It just has not really been Nelly Korda's week or weekend has it?

You have to wonder whether, after such a stellar year with the Women's LPGA Championship and a shiny Olympic gold medal to boot, the final major of the year has proved to be a step too far.

A frustrating dropped shot at the fifth ... and even though both birdie the sixth, Korda remains off the pace - and could Brooke Henderson make a charge?

Sophie Powell
Ladies European Tour player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

I think it has been a good set-up in terms of the course and the length of the rough. They haven't played it too long. Sometimes that happens in the women's game, but scoring has been able to happen.

Louise Duncan got into the rough on the fourth and she's a wispy thing but got it out and onto the front of the green with a lot of ease.

It is playable.

It's 'just' a par for Duncan, but there have only been four birdies on the fifth hole today so it's not a bad score and still plenty of mileage left in this tournament yet.

Just the one birdie for Louise Duncan today but she's looking dialled in as she fires a dart into the fifth green and sets up a birdie putt that could see he join the leaders....

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Well it is where the cool kids all want to be!

Georgia Hall has brushed away all that pensiveness of yesterday's round - and she follows up that eagle on the sixth with a birdie.

Welcome to the top of the leaderboard as we now have a SIX-way tie at the top!

Anymore for anymore?

Elbow room only at the top of the pile. It is now a FIVE-WAY share of the lead...

-9 S Kyriacou (12), M Lee (11), L Salas (2), A Nordqvist (2), N Koerstz Madsen (2)

-8 G Hall (6), L Duncan (2)

-7 M Castren (13), M Jutanugarn (5), B Henderson (5), A Jutanugarn (4), M Sagstrom (4)

Selected others:

-6 A Hewson (16), SY Kim (6), L Thompson (4)

-5 N Korda (6)

-3 L Maguire (9)

A par-par start for our Scandinavian pair, who just need to keep their cool a bit with now three other players joining them at the top of the leaderboard.

Nordqvist comes up short with her birdie try but she's started off playing solid enough golf and should give herself a few more looks at birdie today.

It's a birdie fest at Carnoustie today, as Minjee Lee adds her fifth of the day to join the group of five now sharing the lead on nine under.

Strap in folks, this is going to get very, very interesting....

Eagles are like buses at the moment. Wait ages for one... and then two come along in a row.

Georgia Hall has been steady so far at level par this morning, but a lovely eagle on the sixth hauls her right up to one behind a four-way split at the top of the leaderboard.

More of those please!

Well come on, who doesn't like a chance to get the phrase 'the eagle has landed'?

The Aussie has had an absolutely cracking round this morning with four birdies already on the front nine, and so why not card youself an eagle on the 12th?

We now have a four-way tie at the top.

Sophie Powell
Ladies European Tour player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

Who is going to win? I think it's hard to look past Anna Nordqvist with all the experience she has. But what a story it'd be if Louise Duncan wins. And I also fancy Madelene Sagstrom to do well.

That's a superb putt from Louise Duncan on the third - from miles away and up over a ridge it's proper three-putt territory but the Scottish amateur is no stranger to links greens and shows it by nearly holing the thing!

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Ouch! Anna Nordqvist's birdie putt on the first gets the full horseshoe treatment as it catches the left edge of the hole but does a full 360 and pops back up right in front of the cup.

They're so annoying but on the first hole of the final round at a major I imagine that counts at least double!

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Blimey, what a charge from England's Alice Hewson! She's seen more birdies than an ornithologist today.

A FOURTH on the bounce at the 14 moves her to six under.

More than likely to be too little too late, but she is on course for a brilliant final day nevertheless.

And that could cement her place in Europe's Solheim Cup team, which will be announced tomorrow morning at 08:30 BST.

Well yesterday the weather could have played a part in that for Nelly Korda, but she looks in disbelief as a well paced potential birdie putt rolls alongside and stubbornly stays put for another comfortable par.

She still trails her playing partner Brooke Henderson, who snuck a cheeky birdie on the third.

-9 L Salas (1), A Nordqvist (14:45), N Koerstz Madsen (14:45)

-8 M Lee (9), L Duncan (2)

-7 S Kyriacou (11), Y Noh (4), M Jutanugarn (4), B Henderson (4), A Jutanugarn (3), M Sagstrom (2), S Nuutinen (1)

Selected others:

-6 A Hewson (14), G Hall (5), SY Kim (5), N Korda (5), L Thompson (3)

-4 L Ko (17), L Maguire (6)

We have a three-way share at the top of the tree, ladies and gentlemen.

We said Lizette Salas was one to watch this afternoon, as she starts her round with an opening birdie, to put herself in the running with Anna Nordqvist and Nanna Koerstz Madsen, who have just teed off.

2019 Women's Open champion Hinako Shibuno started brightly today with two opening birdies, but it's all gone downhill from there with two bogeys and two doubles to shoot a four-over 40 for the front nine...