England’s Georgia Corridor is simply 4 strokes off the lead whereas Nelly Korda moved contained in the minimize after two rounds of the Chevron Championship.
Corridor adopted her opening 69 with a 72 to sit down 4 strokes off the lead, however Charley Hull dropped to four-over par, one behind Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh.
The minimize is projected to come back at two-over with 9 gamers nonetheless to complete their second rounds after thick fog delayed the beginning of play.
World No 1 Nelly Korda, the defending champion, moved contained in the minimize line with a 68 – 9 strokes higher than her opening spherical after altering her putter.
Yan Liu struck an albatross to offset three front-nine bogeys and rebounded from a late bogey for an even-par 72 and a one-stroke lead on the first girls’s main match of the yr.
Liu holed her second shot on the par 5 eighth. She mentioned: “I take my seven-iron and I see the ball (went) in, in order that’s a extremely cool factor. However I believe (the TV crew would not) have video for that gap.
“I think I jump twice on the fairway. Just very happy and so excited. Players in (my) group said congrats to me, so that’s very nice.”
Her solely birdie of the day on the final gave her the lead on seven-under-par after 4 bogeys in a spherical of 72.
She leads by one stroke from Individuals Sarah Schmelzel and Lindy Duncan, who carded a finest spherical of the day 66, Japan’s Mao Saigo and Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea.
The 27-year-old Liu, who has but to win an LPGA occasion, admitted she is going to really feel some strain coming into the weekend because the chief.
“I think definitely I will feel a little bit, because this – well, this is major,” she mentioned. “I know the course going to be harder, harder, so I think just I just stay… patient, calm. Because I’m very emotional person, yes.”
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