EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France \u2014\u00a0Top-ranked Nelly Korda’s\u00a0bid for a third straight major and fifth overall ended early when she missed the cut after the second round of the Evian Championship on Friday.<\/p>\n
As Korda scrapped to stay in the tournament, English golfer Lottie Woad carded a 7-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead from overnight leader Aki Iwai of Japan.<\/p>\n
Korda had a poor\u00a0opening round of 74\u00a0on Thursday and, although she improved with 69 on Friday, her 1-over total left her tied for 67th and she missed the cut by one stroke. She last missed a cut at the 2024 Women\u2019s PGA Championship.<\/p>\n
Korda won the first two majors this season \u2014 the\u00a0Chevron Championship\u00a0and the\u00a0U.S. Women\u2019s Open\u00a0\u2014 but often struggles to find her best form at Evian and has never finished higher than eighth.<\/p>\n
Woad’s round featured eight birdies and a bogey and put her on 11 under overall at the midway point of the fourth of the five women’s majors this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit a lot of fairways and greens, which is definitely the key around here. If you get in trouble off the tee, it can be pretty difficult,” Woad said. \u201cThe driver is clicking. I\u2019ve been very good off the tee. If you do that, you can have a lot of wedges and chances.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iwai held a two-stroke lead overnight from Frenchwoman Perrine Delacou at the lakeside Evian Resort Golf Club.<\/p>\n
Iwai posted 69 to be two shots ahead of countrywoman Mao Saigo and South Korean Haeran Ryu, the\u00a0Women\u2019s PGA Championship winner. They both shot 68 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France \u2014\u00a0Top-ranked Nelly Korda’s\u00a0bid for a third straight major and fifth overall ended early when she missed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-794055","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\/794055","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=794055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}