The South Koreans were among only six teams who broke par on Saturday (Sunday AEST), posting a 1-under 69 in foursomes to build their advantage.<\/p>\n
After a terrific start to the tournament, double major winner Nelly Korda and German Olivia Cowan made only one birdie, had a bogey on both par-5s at Midland Country Club and shot 76 to fall six shots behind.<\/p>\n
Korda and Cowan were tied for 13th. It will be only the second time this year on the LPGA that Korda is not in the final group.<\/p>\n
Kim and Choi, the South Korean duo who are both among the top 20 in the women’s world ranking, were at 10-under (200).<\/p>\n
“The wind was obviously very strong today, so that was a big factor that was different than the first round,” Kim said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They also shot 69 in foursomes in the opening round.<\/p>\n
Hira Naveed is the best-placed Australian and is in a tie for seventh with her American partner Gurleen Kaur.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gina Kim and LPGA rookie Yana Wilson managed a birdie on the par-3 closing hole, which was playing downwind to a front pin over the water. That gave them a 70 and left them one shot back.<\/p>\n
Alison Lee and Lilia Vu, former college team-mates at UCLA, had the lead until they made a triple bogey on the 16th hole when Vu hit the tee shot out-of-bounds. They had to settle for a 69 and were in third place at 8-under 202.<\/p>\n
“It’s a pretty meaty hole. I have been kind of leaking my drives out right, so just wanted to make sure I had a draw, but it was a pulled draw instead,” Vu said.<\/p>\n
Juli Inkster, who at 66 became the oldest player in LPGA history to make the cut in an official event, teamed with Angel Yin for a 70. They were tied for 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Koreans were among only six teams who broke par on Saturday (Sunday AEST), posting a 1-under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-735236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}