claimed her second major in the space of two weeks<\/a> at the Evian Championship, and her remarkable major form has continued at the Open.<\/p>\nDespite being three over for the day through five holes, she sank five birdies to shoot two under par and build on her opening-round score of 66.<\/p>\n
“The last hole is so important as it is always good for tomorrow, I always want to make a good score on the last hole,” Ryu told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had two birdies on it, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n
“I just stayed patient after that [the tough start] and I made some birdies to finish under par. I am so happy now.”<\/p>\n
Kuwaki, who finished Thursday two shots behind leader Jeeno Thitikul, carded a one-under-par round to take advantage of Thitikul’s dropped shots.<\/p>\n
Following a spectacular seven-under-par 64, Thailand’s Thitikul shot a two-over-par 73.<\/p>\n
American Yealimi Noh joins world number two Thitikul on five under par after shooting 70.<\/p>\n
England’s Lottie Woad is in a strong position to compete for a first major title despite a disappointing end to her second round.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old, who arrived as one of the favourites, ended the day on two under par.<\/p>\n
Woad’s bogey-free opening round of 69 was followed up by a score of 71, which included three birdies on the front nine.<\/p>\n
However, two dropped shots on the back nine – one on 17 – leaves her five shots back.<\/p>\n
England’s Charley Hull went round in even par to remain on two under par, while world number one Nelly Korda shot 68 to recover from an opening-round two-over-par 73.<\/p>\n
Three-time major champion Lydia Ko is also well placed to make a move from one under par, as is England’s Mimi Rhodes, who recovered from two early bogeys to sink three birdies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AIG Women’s Open -7 H Ryu (Kor); -6 S Kuwaki (Jpn); -5 Y Noh (US), A Thitikul (Tha);…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721508","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\/721508","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=721508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}