{"id":89223,"date":"2025-08-23T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89223\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:07:07","slug":"akie-iwai-holds-3-shot-lead-at-midway-point-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89223\/","title":{"rendered":"Akie Iwai holds 3-shot lead at midway point in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MISSISSAUGA, Canada &#8211; Japanese golfer Akie Iwai shot a 2-under 69 on Friday to increase her lead to three strokes after the second round of the CPKC Women&#8217;s Open in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old rookie, fresh off her first career victory on the U.S. LPGA Tour last week, had a 9-under 133 total at Mississauga Golf and Country Club in the province of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Iwai carded four birdies and a pair of bogeys after starting the day with a two-shot lead.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing second place were Australia&#8217;s Minjee Lee (67), Ireland&#8217;s Leona Maguire (70) and Thailand&#8217;s Jeeno Thitikul (70).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My shots were good, but I left a lot of putts a bit short, so that was a shame,&#8221; Iwai said. &#8220;I&#8217;m in a good position to start the weekend again. I&#8217;ll try to enjoy my game and keep going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minami Katsu was another Japanese player in the top 10, shooting a 67 to tie for ninth at 4 under for the 72-hole event.<\/p>\n<p>Iwai&#8217;s twin sister Chisato missed the cut by one stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday at the Standard Portland Classic in Oregon, Akie Iwai joined Chisato as a rookie winner, making them the first twins in history to each win on the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISSISSAUGA, Canada &#8211; Japanese golfer Akie Iwai shot a 2-under 69 on Friday to increase her lead to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-89223","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\/89223","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=89223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}