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Enable Cookies<\/a> “I’ve been playing some really good rounds this year especially,” Yamashita said. “My game is in better shape than last year, so my swing feels really good, too.”<\/p>\n Julia Lopez Ramirez birdied three of her final four holes for a 66 and was tied for second with Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, who led by a stroke after the first round.<\/p>\n “Try to keep your mind cool and your body hydrated in these conditions,” Lopez Ramirez said of her preparations for the weekend in the usual high humidity in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n A Lim Kim had the round of the day, a 64, and was in fourth place, three strokes behind Yamashita.<\/p>\n Haeran Ryu, a major winner this year at the Women’s PGA Championship and at the Evian Championship, withdrew before her first-round tee time due to a strained finger ligament she suffered while riding in a golf cart during the Wednesday pro-am.<\/p>\n She was the highest-ranked player in the tournament in the absence of world No 1 Nelly Korda and No 2 Jeeno Thitikul.<\/p>\n Yuri Yoshida, who won the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea, shot 70 Friday and was at five under.<\/p>\n Live coverage of the Maybank Championship continues from 1.30am on Saturday on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Mix with coverage on Sky Sports Golf from 4am. Get the latest Sky Sports deals<\/a> or stream with no contract<\/a> on NOW.<\/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 Charley Hull sits four shots off the lead after the second round of the LPGA’s Maybank Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818801","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\/818801","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=818801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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