Golf by the sea can mingle the most patient of characters. Lottie Woad had firmly played in the second round mixture at this female open to Five Under PA, but the 16th at Royal Porthcawl was to retaliate to Golden Girl from English.
The second blow of Woad found problems – it took Lydia Ko, one of Woad’s game partners, to find the ball – and her third swing barely caused a movement. Woad called for a referee, plus a second opinion, in his conviction that his ball was now anchored and worthy of relief. The complaints refused, she had to declare the unplayable ball. This macabre affair finally culminated in a triple sept-bogy and a round of 70 which, for so long, had demonstrated more the rapid ascent of Woad at the top of his sport.
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“There was much more good than bad,” said Woad. “I played very well for 17 holes, just this hole cost me a little.
“I think it’s probably the most difficult hole on the course. The tee is difficult to hit the fairway, then you have three woods in a very strong wind. Everything that is missing the target will be exaggerated. So I pushed it and I had a fairly unlucky lie. It was not too thick there from where I am. So I couldn’t really do much with that.”
Woad admitted that she was disappointed that Officialdom said her ball was not integrated. “I just had to forget it as quickly as possible,” she added. Woad missed four feet for a birdie at the last, which means that it remains at nine heads. Due to its own admission, and even for the whims of links, it can already be too far.
The wider problem for Woad and all the others is that Miyu Yamashita has taken a lot on this tournament. The Japanese player 65 launched it at 11 sous, which means a three -stroke advance on his compatriot Rio Takeda. The round without Bogey from Yamashita included an amazing nine of 32.
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An in -depth inspection of the form of Yamashita indicates that its importance in Wales should not be a real surprise. Although the terrain can be somewhat different from what the 23 -year -old is used to, the game at the top of the rankings appears second nature. She won 13 times on the Japanese tour and had 43 top three since April 2021. Yamashita has shared his name with a Japanese wrestler, who has to lead to interesting moments when observers hit letters in Google. Yamashita golf missed the women’s Open last year. She appears on a mission to compensate for this.
The 70 of Lindy Duncan moved her to four sous, where she pajaree Anannarukarn and Chiara Tamburlini for company. Madelene Sagström moved to a touching distance from the group behind Yamashita, the 69 of the Swedish meaning a total of three under 36 holes.
In Two Under, the member of Porthcawl, Darcey Harry, survived comfortably for the weekend. “I do not forget that it is in fact my career at home and I have already played it,” she said. “I must continue to remember that I know the course, so I don’t know why I’m stressed. I just have to try to enjoy the atmosphere.
“I think the first two days are usually the most zero because you want to cut. Anything can happen on this course. You may be in trouble, big troubles at any time. I really think that today was a day stressful enough for everyone because the cup is at stake. I can reset for tomorrow. ” The world n ° 1, Nelly Korda, like Woad and Harry, is less than two.
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There was a golden moment for Steph Kyriacou, who made a hole in one with his corner of the gap in the 8th. “I haven’t seen him in, which has null, but the crowd has gone mad,” said the Australian. “It didn’t damage the hole, which was surprising, so it was quite clean. My first official hole in an asterisk. Quite excited. I had a hole in one in a front training round. There were witnesses, a first ball, but it is not really the real deal, that is to say that my team is a sequence, people, the tournament, major, that counts.
Lilia Vu was among those to crash this major halfway. Carlota Ciganda, Jennifer Kupcho and Sophia Popov, who won this championship five years ago, did the same.
