Beginning her second round two shots behind Karine Icher, Ko moved level with the Frenchwoman courtesy of a flawless four-under 68 but couldn’t match the 64 of Taiwan leader Candie Kung, who is 11-under.
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Winless in 253 career LPGA Tour starts, Icher birdied Nos.
“It’s always nice to have some rounds like that where you don’t have so much questions”.
Starting her round in the afternoon, Icher was five-under par through her opening nine holes and finished with two birdies on the back nine to close out her round.
“I got maybe in trouble a couple of times but was able to recover well”, said Ko, who was 15 when she won her first tournament on this course in 2012 as an amateur. She was a 15-year-old amateur when she won her first title on this same course.
Not exactly Groundhog Day, but the sight of New Zealand’s Lydia Ko near the top of the Canadian Women’s Open leaderbaord is not exactly an unfamilar one.
The 18-year-old Kiwi shot seven birdies to be two strokes behind Icher and one ahead of four golfers, including third-ranked Stacy Lewis of the United States. “Having someone that tells me what to do when I am not playing very well and and tells me what to do when I am on a roll is important”.
“I just knew I needed to hit a good shot in there and unfortunately I didn’t”, she said.
“It makes it exciting being able to play in front of your home crowd”. “Sometimes you have days like that where everything works, so I’m quite happy with this one”. “I had the same score the last time I was here”. “I hit a lot of good drives when I needed too”. “I didn’t really have that many really tough positions”.
Canadian Brooke Henderson had a disappointing day at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open Friday.
Brittany Henderson, of Canada, tees off during the first round of… “Wasn’t a great day out there, but I grinded it out pretty well”.
“My goal was to shoot a number around 4 under today”.
She has four LPGA Tour victories, winning three times in 2003 and once in 2008. Struggling with a left ankle injury, she was playing her first tournament since withdrawing during the second round of the Women’s British Open after slipping walking off a tee box.
If there were nerves, she didn’t show any on the first hole, draining a lengthy birdie putt. “I guess it was a slump that I had back [in] 2010, 2011, I just got caught up in life a little bit”.
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Inbee Park, of South Korea, waits to tee off on the seventh hole during the second round of the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open golf tournament, Friday, August 21, 2015, in Coquitlam, British Columbia.
