{"id":937988,"date":"2026-10-23T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937988\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:06:15","slug":"aussie-davidson-fourth-halfway-through-bmw-championship-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937988\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Davidson fourth halfway through BMW Championship \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karis Davidson has finished with a flurry to remain firmly in contention at the halfway mark of the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea.<\/p>\n

Australian golf\u2019s form player birdied two of her last three holes in a second-round four-under-par 68 at the picturesque Pine Beach Golf Links, southwest of Gwangju.<\/p>\n

The first-round co-leader, Davidson moved to 10 under par for the championship as world No.3 Haeran Ryu delighted home fans in bursting from the pack to be the solo front-runner.<\/p>\n

Producing some majestic ball striking, Ryu eagled both par-5s on the front nine and collected four more birdies in a flawless eight-under 64.<\/p>\n

In backing up an opening round of 67, the 25-year-old remains bogey free through 36 holes and 13 under par as she looks to add another trophy to a splendid 2026 season that has already yielded two major championships.<\/p>\n

\"SouthHaeran Ryu hit a stunning 64, including two eagles, in the second round in South Korea. (AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Fellow South Korean Minsun7 Kim matched Ryu\u2019s 64 to surge into a share of second, two shots behind, with American Lauren Coughlin, who fired a second-round 66.<\/p>\n

Davidson is three strokes behind in a tie for fourth with Spaniard Julia Lopez Ramirez (67). <\/p>\n

With three front-nine birdies, Davidson retained a share of the lead before Ryu kicked clear as the Victorian dropped shots on the 10th and 15th holes.<\/p>\n

But Davidson steadied down the stretch to give herself a serious weekend crack at landing her maiden LPGA Tour title. <\/p>\n

Fellow Australian Grace Kim rebounded from a first-round 73 to climb to four under and a tie for 32nd following a 67 on Friday.<\/p>\n

Robyn Choi (72) is equal 45th at two under, while Minjee Lee (69) and Cassie Porter are joint 67th at one over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karis Davidson has finished with a flurry to remain firmly in contention at the halfway mark of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[1724,64,63,755,405163,85,12632],"class_list":["post-937988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937988","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=937988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}