{"id":918689,"date":"2026-10-03T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:10:10","slug":"thitikul-mack-share-lead-at-lotte-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918689\/","title":{"rendered":"Thitikul, Mack share lead at Lotte Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU \u2014 Second-ranked Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand made a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th for a 7-under 65 a share of the second-round lead Friday in the LPGA Tour\u2019s LOTTE Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking her fourth LPGA Tour victory of the year, the 23-year-old Thitikul was bogey-free after 36 holes at Hoakalei Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt it was lucky for us enough to not have that much gusts,\u201d Thitikul said after mostly calm afternoon conditions after rain and wind Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Polly Mack of Germany also closed with a birdie on 18 for a 65 to match Thitikul at 12-under 132.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Melgrati of Italy and Ina Yoon of South Korea were a stroke back. Melgrati had a 65, and Yoon shot 67.<\/p>\n<p>First-round leader A Lim Kim (69) was 10 under with Michelle Zhang (67). Kim won the 2024 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Nasa Hataoka (65) and Miyu Yamashita (67) were 9 under.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Maude-Aimee Leblanc was at 5 under.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament leads to a month of tournaments in Asia, starting with the Buick LPGA Shanghai on Oct. 15-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU \u2014 Second-ranked Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand made a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-918689","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\/918689","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=918689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}