In-Kyung Kim, Becky Brewerton and Sophie Gustafson are tied for the lead at the Evian Masters.  Cristie Kerr and Ai Miyazato are tied for fourth one shot back at -11 while Karrie Webb is in sixth place at -10.

All three leaders played solidly to climb their way to -12.  Gustafson was bogey-free en route to a 67, which featured an eagle at the par-5 7^th and a birdie at 17 to tie for the lead.  Kim bogeyed 2 to drop to -7 but a run of four straight birdies at the turn moved her to -11 and her own birdie at 17 made for -12.  Brewerton bogeyed 3 to go -8 but immediately turned it around with three birdies in four holes.  Another at 10 put her in the lead at -12 and she parred out from there.  Miyazato rode the rollercoaster Saturday with four bogeys and six birdies - she would have had a share of the lead too if not for the final bogey at 18.  Kerr's five-birdie zero-bogey 67 drew her to within one while Webb fought off an early double to get home in 68.

Na Yeon Choi took the lead at -11 early in the day after birdies at 3 and 4 but four bogeys over the last 11 holes saddled her with a 72 to stand -9.  Paula Creamer reached -10 when she birdied 10 but her final eight holes saw seven pars and one bogey (at 16).  Defending champion Helen Alfredsson rallied from two early bogeys (which left her at -3) to play her last 12 holes in -6.  Helen is tied for seventh with Choi and Creamer at -9.  Yuko Mitsuka was heading south (mainly due to a double-bogey at 12) until she eagled the par-5 18^th to finish alone in tenth at -8.  The bubble burst for Karine Icher - she carded 77 to fall to -2 T31.

The Golf Channel coverage begins at 1pm EDT.  I'll update with any pertinent info afterwards.  TC fills in some of my gaps with this morning's Mostly Harmless live-blog.

Post TV Update:  If you often tire of American golf coverage showing too many shots of the same American players, you have to love the coverage of the Evian Masters.  Knowing he can't see GC, I feel sorry for TC - he would have thought he was watching Japanese TV as much as Miyazato was shown today (and she got a lengthy post-round interview to boot).  Lots of Brewerton, Gustafson, Inky and Choi too.  We saw Creamer a few times but I got the impression that Cristie Kerr was being deliberately ignored by Canal Plus.  Cristie's chip-in for birdie at 14 and eagle attempt at 18 (which missed) was all there was for Kerr fans.  Brian Hammons is noticeably bothered by the second-hand (and rather second-rate) French feed.  Several times over the first three rounds he has corrected the leaderboard or player graphics and immediately pointed out that another party is responsible.  Canal Plus didn't make all the mistakes today, though - the final group finished up and GC still had over 30 minutes of airtime remaining.  Bad tape-delay planning there, guys.  The lengthy post-round interviews were nice.

Brewerton played solidly down the stretch - no mistakes but no real birdie opps either.  Gustafson missed birdie chances of less than 10 feet at 14 and 15 but got a real break at 17 when her mis-hit tee shot ricocheted off the bank in front of the green and rolled up to five feet, setting up her birdie to go -12.  Miyazato had some missed chances too - at 11 and 14 putts of less than 10 feet didn't go - but she made an 18-footer at 12 and a 30-footer at 15.  A nine-footer at 16 created a four-way tie for the lead, which Ai fell out of when she three-putted from 15 feet at 18.  In-Kyung Kim birdied 17 from six feet and had about 10 feet at 18 to take the solo lead but missed it to the right.  Choi missed a six-footer for birdie at 16, made one from four feet at 17 but bogeyed 18 when she missed the green left with her third and chipped 15 feet past the hole.  Yuko Mitsuka's double at 12 was caused by going OB with her second shot and her eagle at 18 was from the fairway - she flew it past the hole and spun it back in.

I neglected to mention earlier that 18 players are within six shots of the lead so you know what that means...Sunday Free-For-All!  I would probably live-blog it but I have an appointment with futility tomorrow morning (some would call it a "tee time") so I'll leave that to TC and I'll do my recap thing in the afternoon.