July 11th, 2026 <\/p>\n
\n By Australian Golf Digest <\/p>\n
[Photo: Stuart Franklin\/Getty Images]<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s hopes of consecutive wins at The Amundi Evian Championship now rest with two players after three Aussie major winners missed the cut at Evian Resort Golf Club.<\/p>\n
Reigning champion Grace Kim\u2019s title defence came to an end two days early as she followed up an opening round of 2-over 73 with a 1-over 72 on Friday to fall three shots short of the cut-line.<\/p>\n
Two double-bogeys on her back nine saw Hannah Green miss the weekend for the second straight major while 2021 champion Minjee Lee also made two doubles on her back nine in her round of 6-over 77 and a disappointing showing.<\/p>\n
On the back of consecutive best major finishes at the US Women\u2019s Open and KPMG Women\u2019s PGA, Karis Davidson made two birdies in her final four holes to make the cut at 1-under, fellow Queenslander Cassie Porter making a birdie at the par-5 ninth \u2013 her final hole \u2013 to guarantee herself two additional rounds.<\/p>\n
England\u2019s Lottie Woad surged to the outright lead with a superb 7-under 64 on day two to be 11-under at the halfway mark, one clear of Round 1 leader Aki Iwai (69).<\/p>\n
Starting Round 2 four shots back of Iwai, the two-time Ladies European Tour winner rolled in her first birdie of the day on the third before adding further birdies on seven and nine.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old dropped her only shot of the day on the 10th but bounced back with three birdies on the trot on holes 11 to 13.<\/p>\n
Another birdie on 15 saw her Woad go into a share of the lead before her birdie on 18 put her in the outright lead at the 36-hole mark.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit a lot of fairways and greens, which is definitely the key around here,\u201d said Woad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you get in trouble off the tee, it can be pretty difficult, so I\u2019ve just been trying to hit my lines and know how important that is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three-time major champion Lydia Ko is the best of the Australasians to make the cut, making it successive rounds of 2-under 69 to sit in a share of 18th.<\/p>\n
Eleven years since her victory as an 18-year-old, Ko was 2-over on her round through eight holes on Friday, storming home with four birdies in her final seven holes to go into the weekend at 4-under par and seven strokes off the lead.<\/p>\n
Round 2 Australasian scores<\/p>\n
T18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lydia Ko (NZ)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 69-69\u2014138
T46\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karis Davidson 70-71\u2014141
T46\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cassie Porter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 69-72\u2014141
MC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hannah Green\u00a0 70-73\u2014143
MC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kelsey Bennett 74-70\u2014144
MC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robyn Choi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 73-71\u2014144
MC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grace Kim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 73-72\u2014145
MC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Minjee Lee\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 77-77\u2014154
MC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriela Ruffels\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 78-77\u2014155<\/p>\n
Round 3 tee times AEST<\/p>\n
5:28pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lydia Ko (NZ)
5:40pm*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karis Davidson
5:52pm*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cassie Porter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 11th, 2026 By Australian Golf Digest [Photo: Stuart Franklin\/Getty Images] Australia\u2019s hopes of consecutive wins at The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[204889,64,63,29976,29756,755,29528,29527,29744,24139,58251,30658,20776,85,39133],"class_list":["post-793146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-amundi-evian-championship","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-golf","tag-cassie-porter","tag-golf","tag-grace-kim","tag-hannah-green","tag-karis-davidson","tag-lottie-woad","tag-lpga","tag-lydia-ko","tag-minjee-lee","tag-sports","tag-womens-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793146","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=793146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}