{"id":918585,"date":"2026-10-03T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918585\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:10:10","slug":"2026-lotte-championship-jeeno-thitikul-leads-in-hawaii-after-36-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918585\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Lotte Championship: Jeeno Thitikul leads in Hawaii after 36 holes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In search of her fourth win of the year, Jeeno Thitikul moved up the leaderboard at Hoakalei Country Club on Friday by keeping her card clean for the second day in a row.<\/p>\n

The former world No. 1 carries the solo lead into the weekend in Hawaii after posting a 7-under 65 to maintain a bogey-free streak through 36 holes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hitting the irons pretty well, I didn\u2019t expect to be that good having taken the past month off,\u201d said Thitikul, who traveled to Austria last month on vacation with her coach and sister. <\/p>\n

Her final two holes were perhaps her most impressive. She saved par with a tremendous up and down at the par-4 17th before sinking her birdie putt on the green at 18 \u2014 moving to 12 under on the tournament by conquering the 532-yard, par 5. <\/p>\n

\u201cGolf will never be perfect,\u201d Thitikul said. \u201cWe\u2019re all trying to make it to have a chance, trying to bounce back when things are not going our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thitikul won back at home in Thailand<\/a> in February, posting a 24 under at the Honda LPGA Thailand. She also won the Mizuho Americas Open in May and then the Standard Portland Classic in August. <\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s Polly Mack was closing in on the co-lead late with a bogey-free second round of her own. <\/p>\n

She sits tied with South Korea\u2019s Ina Yoon and Italy\u2019s Carolina Melgrati, who got in at 11 under. <\/p>\n

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Watch the third round of the LOTTE Championship at Hoakalei Country Club in Oahu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In search of her fourth win of the year, Jeeno Thitikul moved up the leaderboard at Hoakalei Country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-918585","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\/918585","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=918585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}