Lottie Woad was hurrying up the leaderboard Friday within the AIG Girls’s Open till one unhealthy gap despatched her in reverse.
Woad, who opened with an even-par 72 at Royal Porthcawl, made six birdies and one bogey over her first 15 holes in Spherical 2, shifting right into a tie for fourth.
Within the fairway off the tee on the par-4 16th, Woad hit a unfastened fairway metallic on her second shot. Although she was capable of find her ball, it was “buried within the brambles,” in accordance with the on-course reporter, and Woad all-but whiffed on her try to punch-out backwards.
The 21-year-old, who received in her skilled debut final week in Scotland, opted to take an unplayable-lie penalty and dropped on the hardpan cart path. She hit the inexperienced from there and two-putted for triple bogey.
“I feel it’s most likely the hardest gap on the course. The tee shot is tough to hit the golf green, and then you definately’ve bought 3-wood into a really sturdy wind. Something that’s lacking the goal goes to be exaggerated,” she stated. ”So pushed it and bought a reasonably unfortunate lie. Wasn’t too thick round there other than the place I used to be. So couldn’t actually do a lot with that.”
Woad completed par-par to shoot 70 and conclude 36 holes at 2 underneath, 9 again of chief Miyu Yamashita (65).
“There was much more good in it than unhealthy,” she stated. “Performed rather well for 17 holes, simply that one gap price me a bit.”
That is Woad’s second begin since turning skilled. She concluded her standout beginner profession with a victory within the LET’s Girls’s Irish Open and practically captured the season’s fourth main, the Amundi Evian Championship, tying for third.
After incomes her LPGA card by way of its LEAP program, she received final week’s Girls’s Scottish.
World No. 1 Nelly Korda, who continues to be in search of her first victory of the season, can be at 2 underneath after a Friday 72 that included 4 birdies and 4 bogeys.
“Actually, didn’t actually capitalize on something within the calmer circumstances on the entrance 9, then sort of bought actually windy on the again,” Korda stated. “Made a number of extra errors, however bounced again with some birdies. General, I’m not going to complain with even par.”
Defending champion Lydia Ko was one shot larger, taking pictures 73. That would price her the weekend as she posted 2 over par, one exterior the projected cutline with the afternoon wave in motion.
