England's Holly Clyburn will carry a one-shot lead into the final round of the NSW Women's Open at Sydney's Oatlands Golf Club.
Clyburn shot a six-under 66 to vault into the lead, but the Brit will be pursued by a host of chasers with Australian Breanna Elliott just one shot back at minus eight ahead of a group of three at seven-under the card.
That group has Australia's Nikki Garrett (65), Swiss player Fabienne In-Albon (68) and defending champion, France's Joanna Klatten (68) in it.
The main highlight of Clyburn's round was her five-straight birdies on the front nine.
The Englishwoman reeling them off on holes three to seven, and the round could have been even better if not for back-to-back bogeys on par-four holes 10 and 11.
"I got off to a nice start, I had five back-to-back birdies," Clyburn said before remembering the last time she achieved the feat.
"Couple of years ago, I remember when I was 15 playing in an English strokeplay event and I had a bit of a birdie blitz, and my mum surprised me with new golf shoes with 'birdie blitz'."
For Elliott her score was a day late,
"Yeah, I am really happy, I thought it could have happened yesterday but I couldn't get the putter going, then today it was really consistent and I didn't get into too much trouble".
Sharing sixth place at six-under-par and still well within range is first round leader Rebecca Artis and Sydney player, Sarah Kemp.
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