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<\/p>\nEngland’s Lottie Woad shot a seven-under-par 64 to claim the halfway lead at the\u00a0Amundi Evian Championship as she seeks her first major victory.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old, who has won twice on the LPGA Tour over the past year since turning professional and finished third in this event last year, moved ahead of overnight-leader Aki Iwai by one shot after the Japanese player’s second-round 69.<\/p>\n
Woad racked up eight birdies with her solitary dropped shot coming at the par-four 10th. She followed that bogey with three successive birdies and finished with a flourish with a four at the par-five 18th after just missing for eagle.<\/p>\n
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\n Woad leads at the halfway stage in France<\/p>\n
But world No 1 Nelly Korda’s hunt for a career Grand Slam-clinching victory on Sunday is over after the American missed the cut for the first time since June 2024.<\/p>\n
Korda’s cut miss came on the same day that men’s world No 1 Scottie Scheffler saw his own long run without an early exit come to an end<\/a> at the Genesis Scottish Open.<\/p>\n Woad’s compatriot Charley Hull is still in contention heading into the weekend after her one-under 70 left her at six under for the tournament, five shots off the pace.<\/p>\n Datawrapper<\/p>\n This content is provided by Datawrapper, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Datawrapper cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> Hull, resuming her own bid for a maiden major title, combined three birdies and two bogeys and sits tied fifth with Thailand’s Atthaya Thitikul, France’s Nastasia Nadaud and Japan’s Miyu Yamashita<\/p>\n Image: Japan’s Mao Saigo and Korea’s Haeran Ryu are tied for third on eight under after both shooting rounds of 68.<\/p>\n Who will win the Evian Championship? Watch live coverage from 9am on Saturday and Sunday on Sky Sports Golf. Get Sky Sports<\/a> or stream golf with no contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK & Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Lottie Woad shot a seven-under-par 64 to claim the halfway lead at the\u00a0Amundi Evian Championship as she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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