England’s Lottie Woad moved into joint high place at Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Newbie when she shot 70 within the second spherical to face at nine-under-par alongside Kiara Romero.
Woad, a junior at Florida State and the No 1 participant within the girls’s beginner rating, gained this occasion final 12 months.
She is now trying to turn out to be the primary back-to-back winner of the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Newbie.
The complete subject will get to play a observe spherical at Augusta Nationwide on Friday, earlier than the highest 30 and ties who made the reduce then play the ultimate spherical on Saturday.
“I’ve got all the experience from last year of the 48 hours between,” Woad stated. “It’s pretty positive to me.”
She added: “I knew I used to be going off sooner than Megha [Ganne, leader after first round], so I simply thought if I might possibly get just a few birdies to start out I might type of present that I might catch her, and managed to try this.
“I feel I can undoubtedly use final 12 months. I had the lead after which misplaced it. If that occurs once more, then I would know that I’ve come again from there earlier than. So I suppose they’re optimistic recollections.
“I think the pins were definitely a lot harder, so I had to adjust a little bit on that. Some holes you kind of had to play away from a little bit whereas yesterday I feel like I could really attack every pin. So I had to be a bit more patient today.”
Romero tumbled down the leaderboard with a double bogey on the fourth gap and a bogey on the fifth, however landed three consecutive birdies to attain 68.
She stated: “I feel like I have a lot more control over the mental side of it. I had a double and a bogey back-to-back on four and five, so I didn’t let that get to me at all. I actually ended up with birdieing the last three holes. So I feel like that kind of shows the way my game has matured from last year.
“[I’m] simply going to attempt to do my finest to take notes of the course and see the place are the nice spots and create a very good sport plan for Saturday.”
Going into the final round, five players are within two shots of the lead.
Spain’s Carla Bernat Escuder is one shot behind Woad and Romero, along with Andre Revuelta and Megha Ganne. Ganne shot 73, 10 worse than her opening round, but remains in contention.
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