“So I think this is hopefully a trend in the right direction”. Then, she shifted her focus quickly to the second round, which she started an hour after finishing the first.
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The Australian said her change of coach – from Ian Triggs to American Mike McKedrick – was also starting to register. “I am good under the pressure”.
She hit driver, 3-wood and still couldn’t get her ball close to the hole.
She took control on her inward nine with birdies on the 11th, 12th, 13th.
“I was probably about 15 yards short of the green”. But with just two par-5s, the long hitters may not have such a pronounced edge.
Notes: Masters and U.S. Open champion Jordan Spieth is in the field. New Zealand prodigy Lydia Ko remains firmly in the hunt, four shots off the lead after an even par 70, grouped with seven other players including English veteran Laura Davies.
Alex said she felt comfortable playing Lancaster, which reminds her of classic parkland courses back home. Two players on the course were also at 3 under. The wind kicked up in the afternoon prior to the arrival of the storms, and so did the scores.
The South Korean was one shot off the lead after an opening 67 but went one better than that with five birdies and a bogey to sit seven under and three clear of American Stacy Lewis and Japan’s Shiho Oyama. The combination accounted for eight of the top nine completed rounds on the day. She wound up blistering the final nine holes in 31. “I didn’t play well the last couple of weeks, but it was great to finish with a low score on Sunday in Arkansas”.
“I definitely feel like I m in there”. I played very well.
World No. 1 Inbee Park of South Korea stood at two-under through 14 holes when the weather delay struck, along with 16-year-old Chinese amateur He Mu-ni, who had completed 11 holes. She found a fairway bunker on her last hole and bogeyed. “Visually off the tee, it’s a handsome golf course”. It’s a little bit disappointing.
“I’m not a frontrunner for this tournament, really”.
“You can t win the tournament on the first day, but you definitely can lose it”, she told reporters. “””(It allowed me to) go for the pin and stuff like that”.
After a two-hour wait, play was called off with more than 50 players yet to finish the first round.
Morgan Pressel, who shared second place as an amateur at this championship in 2005, opened with a 2-under 68. I’ve worked really hard over the previous year, because I changed coaches.
Inbee Park and Jane Park were among the players forced to finish their first rounds early Friday.
First round co-leaders Webb and Alex weren’t due to tee off in the second round until later Friday. Now I have been out here my second year.
“We have the largest purse in women’s golf”, Lance said.
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Sei Young Kim started the U.S. Women’s Open sluggishly after learning Wednesday that her regular caddie, Paul Fusco, had been banished from the championship, but she got herself back in the mix Friday.
