July 26, 2024; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Megan Khang hits the ball from the 14th tee in the course of the second spherical of the CPKC Girls’s Golf Open. Obligatory Credit score: Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports activities Megan Khang joins Australian Minjee Lee on the high of the 36-hole leaderboard as a handful of gamers begin to stand out on the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open in Ayrshire, Scotland on Friday .
Kang shot a 68 for the second consecutive spherical and Lee shot a 69 to achieve 8-under 136. They have 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 beneath 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 Sequence 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 cup.
“My thought was, ‘Let’s attempt to hit it shut and make par,'” Kang stated. “Once more, you already know, hitting a extremely good chip shot and it bounces again and spins somewhat bit again into the opening. So one thing like that helps you keep in your zone and never get too pissed off within the recreation. .
Lee began on the again 9 and flexed his muscle groups halfway by way of the spherical, making all 4 birdies between Nos. 17 and three.
“I actually wish to win, that is what we try for as gamers,” Lee stated. “However you already know, I am solely going to do what I can management, clearly I am unable to management what different individuals are doing. I will strive my finest 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 high 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 all the entrance 9 (and again 9).
“I felt clearly nice after the win,” Coughlin stated. “However I really feel like I nonetheless wish to do it once more, so I am interested by larger objectives and truthfully 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 part.
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 robust, 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 stated. “I believe it is somewhat uncommon, however it’s important to get used to it fairly shortly.”
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 minimize embody Ally Ewing (6-over), Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn (6-over) and Sweden’s Maja Stark (7-over).
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