Maja Stark leads chaotic US Women’s Open as contenders falter

• Stark shoots 70 to take solo lead at 7-under overall

• Lopez Ramirez surges with 68 after recent surgery

• Tricky greens trigger triple bogeys across the field

Maja Stark could tell pretty early Saturday that Erin Hills would provide much more of a challenge than it had in the first two days of the US Women's Open.

Yet she found a way to avoid the mistakes that befell so many other competitors during a brutal third round. Now the 25-year-old from Sweden is in position to earn the $2.4m prize in the biggest event of the women's golf season.