AIG Girls’s Open
-7 H Ryu (Kor); -6 S Kuwaki (Jpn); -5 Y Noh (US), A Thitikul (Tha); -3 S Joo (Kor); -2 L Woad (Eng), C Hull (Eng), C Wannasaen (Tha), L Li (US), J Yan (US), L Coughlin (US), P Martin (Esp), M Katsu (Jpn)
Chosen others: -1 L Ko (NZ), N Korda (US), M Rhodes (Eng); +2 A Hewson (Eng), +6 G Corridor (Eng), +7 M Yamashita (Jpn)
South Korea’s Haeran Ryu birdied the 18th to bounce again from a poor begin and finish the second spherical as chief of the AIG Girls’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
The 25-year-old, aiming to develop into solely the fifth girl in historical past to say three majors in a calendar yr, is one shot away from Japan’s Shiho Kuwaki.
Earlier this month, Ryu claimed her second main within the house of two weeks on the Evian Championship, and her outstanding main kind has continued on the Open.
Regardless of being three over for the day by means of 5 holes, she sank 5 birdies to shoot two below par and construct on her opening-round rating of 66.
“The final gap is so vital as it’s all the time good for tomorrow, I all the time wish to make a very good rating on the final gap,” Ryu instructed BBC Sport.
“I’ve had two birdies on it, which is an efficient factor.
“I simply stayed affected person after that [the tough start] and I made some birdies to complete below par. I’m so joyful now.”
Kuwaki, who completed Thursday two photographs behind chief Jeeno Thitikul, carded a one-under-par spherical to make the most of Thitikul’s dropped photographs.
Following a spectacular seven-under-par 64, Thailand’s Thitikul shot a two-over-par 73.
American Yealimi Noh joins world quantity two Thitikul on 5 below par after taking pictures 70.
England’s Lottie Woad is in a robust place to compete for a primary main title regardless of a disappointing finish to her second spherical.
The 22-year-old, who arrived as one of many favourites, ended the day on two below par.
Woad’s bogey-free opening spherical of 69 was adopted up by a rating of 71, which included three birdies on the entrance 9.
Nonetheless, two dropped photographs on the again 9 – one on 17 – leaves her 5 photographs again.
England’s Charley Hull went spherical in even par to stay on two below par, whereas world primary Nelly Korda shot 68 to get better from an opening-round two-over-par 73.
Three-time main champion Lydia Ko can also be effectively positioned to make a transfer from one below par, as is England’s Mimi Rhodes, who recovered from two early bogeys to sink three birdies.
