South Korea's In-Kyung Kim remained in position for her first LPGA Tour victory, shooting a three-under 69 in windy conditions to take a one-stroke lead over Angela Stanford in the Longs Drugs Challenge.

Kim had an 11-under 205 total at Blackhawk Country Club.

"I think I have to keep going, do what I need to do, calm myself down a little bit," said Kim, the 2005 US Girls Junior winner.

Stanford shot a 67, the best round of the day. She birdied her final three holes, chipping in on the 16th.

LPGA Championship winner Yani Tseng (70) and Mollie Fankhauser (73) were tied for third at six-under, and Kristy McPherson (71) was five-under.

Lorena Ochoa, a seven-time winner this season who lost a play-off to Suzann Pettersen last year at Blackhawk, shot a 74 to fall to four-under, equal with Australia's best, Sarah Kemp (71).

Although Kim hasn't won on the tour, she has come close. Last year, she lost a play-off to Ochoa at the Wegmans LPGA. That's the last time she played in the final group in the final round. This year, she tied for third at the US Women's Open and tied for ninth at the Women's British Open, her past two majors.

Kim said she's better prepared to deal with the final-round pressure after learning a lesson as a rookie.

"I just learned golf is what I do not who I am," Kim said. "It really helped me out."

Kim spent much of the day making pars and watching most of the field fall back. Kim opened with four straight pars, birdied the fifth, then strung together five more pars before getting up and down from a greenside bunker for a birdie on No.11.

Then on the par-three 12th hole, Kim holed her 40-foot birdie putt to go 11-under.

Stanford is playing some of the best golf of her career despite a painful left shoulder that forced her to withdraw from the Navistar LPGA Classic a week after her victory in Mobile.

"You know, sometimes it's good for me to be preoccupied," Stanford said. "I've been so preoccupied with the shoulder and everything that maybe it's good, because I've really had to rest more than normal."