{"id":89042,"date":"2025-08-23T03:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89042\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T03:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:19:09","slug":"morgan-atop-u-s-senior-womens-open-sorenstam-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89042\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan atop U.S. Senior Women&#8217;s Open; Sorenstam fades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHULA VISTA, Calif. &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"527815a6-014c-6f55-b6ff-d7943f84ab90\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/8230\/becky-morgan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Becky Morgan<\/a> of Wales shot a 5-under 68 on Friday to take the second-round lead in the U.S. Senior Women&#8217;s Open, while first-round leader Annika Sorenstam had a 78 to drop six strokes behind.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan had one of two rounds in the 60s in the first two days at San Diego Country Club. She had a 4-under 142 total after opening with a 74.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my first one, having turned 50 last September,&#8221; Morgan said of playing the event. &#8220;But I like the course. It&#8217;s quite tricky. You&#8217;ve really got to hit the fairways, sort of get it in the right part of the greens, and today my putter was working, so it was good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maria McBride of Sweden and Corina Kelepouris of Canada were a stroke back. McBride shot 70, and Kelepouris had a 71.<\/p>\n<p>Liselotte Neumann (71) was 2 under with Ashli Bunch (69) and Moira Dunn-Bohls (73). Neumann won the 1988 U.S. Women&#8217;s Open.<\/p>\n<p>Juli Inkster followed an opening 75 with a 73 to join Sorenstam in a tie for 10th at 2 over.<\/p>\n<p>Karrie Webb was 3 over after rounds of 73 and 76 in her first start in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHULA VISTA, Calif. &#8212; Becky Morgan of Wales shot a 5-under 68 on Friday to take the second-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-89042","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\/89042","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=89042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}