Eire’s Leona Maguire and 21-year-old English beginner Lottie Woad stay in competition on the midway level of the 12 months’s fourth girls’s main on the Evian Championship in France.
With South Korea’s Somi Lee setting the tempo on 10 below after a second-round 65, Maguire’s level-par 71 and Woad’s two-under 69 go away them 4 and 5 pictures adrift of the chief, respectively.
Maguire had began the day in a share of the lead however ended up tied seventh after birdies on two, 15 and 17 had been cancelled out by bogeys at eight, 16 and 18.
Woad, in the meantime, completed strongly with birdies on the sixteenth and 18th to finish two below for her day, comfortably making the reduce for the fourth time in her seven main appearances as an beginner.
The 21-year-old is in fantastic kind, having final week claimed her first skilled win on the KPMG Girls’s Irish Open, and mentioned of her place within the high 12 on the main leaderboard: “Positively a bit nervous, however it’s additionally thrilling on the identical time.
“I’m only, like, five back. Yeah, just trying to play well tomorrow and see what happens.”
Woads is joined on 5 below total by Nelly Korda after the world No 1 posted a second-round 70, with rankings rival Jeeno Thitikul additionally within the combine at six below after back-to-back 68s.
However Friday belonged to Lee, who made six birdies and an eagle to maneuver right into a one-shot lead over Australia’s Grace Kim.
Lee sunk two birdies and an eagle earlier than having fun with a robust end to the spherical on the again 9, with birdies on the eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth and 18th holes.
“Tee shots are really important on this course, but mine weren’t great today,” Lee informed LPGA. “But I managed to make up for it with some solid putting.
“Proper now, I am concentrating on my putter and driver, holding my rhythm – and we’ll see the place that takes me.”
Second-placed Kim carded a 9 below 68, whereas American Jennifer Kupcho, one among 4 in a single day co-leaders, ended the day two again in third.
Lydia Ko and Ruoning Yin, ranked third and fourth on the earth respectively, missed the two-over reduce, as did US Girls’s Open winner Maja Stark.
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