FINAL DAY: Park Enters Final Round of Kraft Nabisco with Three-Stroke Lead

 Inbee Park held a three-stroke lead over Lizette Salas entering Sunday's final round of the $2 million Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major of the LPGA season.

Park shot her second consecutive five-under-par 67 Saturday at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, adding two shots to her lead. She birdied the first, fifth, 10th, 12 and 17th holes to go to 12-under-par 204 for the tournament.

Salas birdied each of the first two holes, three-putted the eighth for a bogey, then birdied the ninth and 13th holes for a three-under-par 69.

Tied for third at six-under-par 210, six strokes behind Park, are Angela Stanford, Karrie Webb, Karine Icher, Suzann Pettersen, Jessica Korda and Pornanong Phatlum.

Park will be seeking her second major championship. The winner will receive $300,000.

"Anything can happen on this golf course," said Park, the 2008 U.S. Women's Open champion. "I think everybody within maybe six, seven shots of the lead is still in the mix."

Park said the final round of a major championship is different from a final round of other tournaments.

"You feel a lot more pressure and you seen a lot more people, especially playing in the last group," said Park, a 24-year-old from South Korea who stays at the Murrieta home of a former coach when she has a week off.

"You've just got to handle yourself really good under pressure."

Salas said she had a "pretty good day, considering I didn't hit the ball well."

"I kept putting myself in good position, hit some good shots out of the rough and hit a great bunker shot on 17 to get up-and-down for par," said Salas, a 23-year-old from Azusa in her second year on the LPGA Tour and seeking her first professional victory. "Obviously, you want to end with a birdie and didn't quite drop."

Salas asked her fans to wear cardinal and gold, her alma mater USC's colors, today and to keep "cheering me on."

"That's what keeps the adrenaline going and keeps the momentum up for me," Salas said. "I feed off the crowd and to have my fans out here, my family here, it just helps me stay calm."

"I said yesterday other players would feel more pressure if they had more fans out. To me, that's the opposite. I welcome more cheers. I heard lots of 'fight ons' today and lots of 'Lilies' and that's very heartwarming."

Salas has also received support on Twitter from the retired boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya, who played with her Wednesday during the tournament's pro-am, and USC athletic director Pat Haden.

"(You) are heading into the championship rounds," De La Hoya wrote. "It's time to dig down and fight hard and smart."

Haden congratulated Salas "for some recent great play" and called her "one of my favorite golfers."   Salas' best finish on the LPGA Tour was a tie for fourth in the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup last month and best finish in a major was a tie for 15th in the 2011 U.S. Women's Open when she was still an amateur.

"This is all a learning experience for me and I'm just trying to have fun with it," Salas said.

"This is what I live for. This is what I dreamed about my entire life is to be in contention at a major championship and hopefully get my first victory here in Southern Cal."