July 26, 2024; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Megan Khang hits the ball from the 14th tee throughout the second spherical of the CPKC Girls’s Golf Open. Necessary Credit score: Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports activities Megan Khang joined Australia’s Minjee Lee on the prime of the 36-hole leaderboard on the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open in Ayrshire, Scotland on Friday as a handful of gamers started to face out.
Kang shot a 68 for the second straight spherical and Lee shot a 69 to achieve 8-under 136. They had been two strokes forward of Lauren Coughlin (69), New Zealander Lydia Ko (69) and Nice Britain’s Charley Hull (68).
No different participant completed 3 underneath par (Germany’s Esther Henseleit and China’s Mary Liu).
Kang, the 26-year-old from Massachusetts, has only one LPGA victory however ranks twenty seventh in factors this week on the CME International Collection all season lengthy. Kang had six birdies and two bogeys on Friday at Dundonald Hyperlinks.
That included a second consecutive day of birdies. On Friday’s match on the par-5 third gap, Kang helped her put some backspin on the ball, sending it straight into the outlet.
“My thought was, ‘Let’s attempt to hit it shut and make par,'” Kang mentioned. “Once more, you realize, hitting a extremely good chip shot and it bounces again and spins a bit bit again into the outlet. So one thing like that helps you keep in your zone and never get too annoyed within the sport. .
Lee began on the again 9 and flexed his muscular tissues halfway by the spherical, making all 4 birdies between Nos. 17 and three.
“I actually need to win, that is what we try for as gamers,” Lee mentioned. “However you realize, I am solely going to do what I can management, clearly I am unable to management what different persons are doing. I will attempt my greatest and if that occurs to be a win, that is nice but when not, that is a part of my course of.
Two of the gamers tied for third place are among the many prime six within the CME Globe standings. Coughlin is fifth in factors after incomes her first profession LPGA win on the CPKC Girls’s Open final month. On Friday, she posted a bogey-free end after making pars on your entire entrance 9 (and again 9).
“I felt clearly nice after the win,” Coughlin mentioned. “However I really feel like I nonetheless need to do it once more, so I am interested by larger targets and actually I really feel very grateful and simply making an attempt to maintain doing what I am doing and clearly it is working. So I am simply probably not Modified every thing.
Winner in January, received gold on the Olympics final week and is at the moment ranked sixth in CME Globe factors. She had 4 birdies and just one bogey for her second straight 69.
“When the wind is that sturdy, it takes lots of creativity as a result of I’ve to hit the 3-wood from 175 (yards), which is often the space of a 5-iron,” Ko mentioned. “I feel it is a bit uncommon, however it’s important to get used to it fairly rapidly.”
Hull’s card is far busier than her counterparts. She eagled the par-5 18th (her ninth gap of the day) and had six birdies and 4 bogeys.
Notable names who missed the lower embody Ally Ewing (6-over), Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn (6-over) and Sweden’s Maja Stark (7-over).
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