{"id":40269,"date":"2025-08-01T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:16:10","slug":"womens-open-2025-miyu-yamashita-leads-by-three-after-second-round-65-at-royal-porthcawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40269\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Open 2025: Miyu Yamashita leads by three after second-round 65 at Royal Porthcawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s probably the toughest hole on the course,&#8221; she said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The tee shot is hard to hit the fairway and then you&#8217;ve got a three-wood into a very strong wind. Anything that&#8217;s missing the target is going to be exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I pushed it and got a pretty unlucky lie. It wasn&#8217;t too thick around there apart from where I was, so I couldn&#8217;t really do much with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about her second round as a whole after a tough opening day, she added: &#8220;I&#8217;d certainly take it [two under par] now, but not when I was standing on the 16th tee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve just got to try to play well over the weekend. The leaderboard is pretty packed so I can move up a bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two Jeeno Thitikul suffered a similar fate to Woad on the par-three 15th, failing to escape from a greenside bunker at the first attempt and eventually carding a triple-bogey six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That dropped the Thai player back from four under to one under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I think it&#8217;s probably the toughest hole on the course,&#8221; she said afterwards. &#8220;The tee shot is hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-40269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}