Scheffler\u2019s crazy four-year streak comes to bitter end as Rory, Aussie star fire<\/a><\/p>\nIn the fourth of the women\u2019s season\u2019s five majors, overnight leader Aki Iwai, who at one stage had increased her lead to five strokes, ended the round one behind in second.<\/p>\n
A second Japanese golfer, Mao Saigo, and South Korean Ryu Hae-ran, winner of the PGA in June, were two shots further back tied for third, with four more players tied for fifth another two shots back.<\/p>\n
American Korda, who won the other two women\u2019s majors this season, missed the cut by one stroke as she followed a three-over first round with a one-under par 69.<\/p>\n
As temperatures soared into the mid-30s again on the shores of Lake Geneva, Woad kept her ball in play as she made three birdies on the outward line and responded to her only bogey, on the 10th, with birdies at the next three holes on her way to a 64.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit a lot of fairways and greens, which is definitely the key round here,\u201d she said.<\/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 The 22-year-old Englishwoman was runner up at the Evian last season. \u201cI\u2019ve got obviously nice memories from last year here and I like the golf course, so I think that definitely helps,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Iwai opened the day with birdies on the first two holes. She had boosted her lead to five strokes when she made a double-bogey on sixth.<\/p>\n
She steadied with three birdies on the back nine before a bogey on 17 handed Woad the lead.<\/p>\n
Iwai finished with a two-under 69 but took the positives from her round. \u201cToday also I gave (myself) many birdie chances,\u201d said Awai. \u201cI got five birdies, and then my swing was smooth. Yep, pretty good.\u201d The day ended with four Japanese women in the top 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis course is not that long, I think the player who has a good skill could make a very good round,\u201d said Saigo by way of explanation after her round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s three major champions and world No.1 Nelly Korda have sensationally missed the cut as England\u2019s Lottie Woad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-793476","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\/793476","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=793476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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