She won the 2015 Evian Championship last September and then the ANA Inspiration in April.
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“Definitely growing up, springtime, fall time weather was very similar to this”, Henderson said.
“But I just regrouped a little bit and started to hit to the middle of the greens, which helped me score on the back nine”.
“I was one under through four, I guess, and was feeling pretty good”, said Henderson. “Maybe it runs in my favour a little bit”. After six consecutive pars, Henderson birdied the par-3 17th, but the 18-year-old Canadian bogeyed the 18th for a 2-over-par 73 that dropped her into a tie with Lee at 2-under 140.
Cooler temperatures and a brief rainstorm made it hard for anyone to catch fire on Friday, and the result is a tight cluster atop the leaderboard through two rounds of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
“This course is tough enough without the wind and everything that was going on out there”, Ko said.
She says she did a lot of scrambling on the back nine and wouldn’t be in this position if it weren’t for her putter.
The real victor early in the second round was the towering trees of Sahalee. Cut between the towering pine and cedar trees the course was unrelenting in its difficulty.
Japan’s Ai Miyazato shot a one-under 70 playing alongside Henderson and is two shots back at even-par with Tiffany Joh, Australian Su Oh and South Koreans Ryu So-yeon and Kim In-kyung.
“It has some teeth”, Piller said. It was just the seventh birdie on the long, uphill par 4. Her Friday round included three birdies and two bogeys.Joining Ko at 141 are Brittany Lincicome and Piller, with the latter capping her round with a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole.Making a move on Friday was a player with a familiar golf surname. Wie shot an 80 today with nine bogeys to finish tied for 132nd at 16 over. She finished at 7 over along with Stacy Lewis (76), both barely making the cut and staying around for the weekend.
A day after wrapping up an LPGA Hall of Fame spot, the South Korean star shot an 8-over 79 on Friday to drop to 9 over and put the seven-time major champion on the verge of an early departure.
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Langer had three front-nine birdies to make the turn in 32, dropped a stroke on the par-4 10th and parred the final eight holes. She has been dealing with inflammation in the tendons and ligaments around her left thumb. She shot a 72 on Thursday, the round she needed to complete the 10-year requirement for the LPGA Hall of Fame. She is one of several players knotted at 149, the last group of players to slip in under the second-round cut. “I think now having tried it three or four (weeks) with the injury”.
