MISSISSAUGA, Canada – 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’s Open in Canada.<\/p>\n
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
Iwai carded four birdies and a pair of bogeys after starting the day with a two-shot lead.<\/p>\n
Sharing second place were Australia’s Minjee Lee (67), Ireland’s Leona Maguire (70) and Thailand’s Jeeno Thitikul (70).<\/p>\n
“My shots were good, but I left a lot of putts a bit short, so that was a shame,” Iwai said. “I’m in a good position to start the weekend again. I’ll try to enjoy my game and keep going.”<\/p>\n
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
Iwai’s twin sister Chisato missed the cut by one stroke.<\/p>\n
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 – Japanese golfer Akie Iwai shot a 2-under 69 on Friday to increase her lead to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-90447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90447","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=90447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}