MAINEVILLE, Ohio \u2014 Chanettee Wannasaen maintained a two-shot lead Friday in the Kroger Queen City Championship, with top-ranked fellow Thai star Jeeno Thitikul and Charley Hull making big moves.<\/p>\n
Wannasaen, the 21-year-old player trying to win for the third straight year on the LPGA Tour, shot a 4-under 68 at soggy TPC River\u2019s Bend to reach 13-under 131. She opened with a 63.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want me to play like this,\u201d Wannasaen said. \u201cI not think about the score. I just want hit driver like this, hit iron like this. I just want to enjoy with the golf again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thitikul and Hull were tied for second with Olivia Cowan.<\/p>\n
Wannasaen holed out for eagle on a par-4 for the second straight day, this time on the 13th \u2014 her fourth hole of of the day. She did it on No. 10 in the first round.<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly like the same, but I didn\u2019t see the ball like get in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Thitikul had a 64, making four straight birdies in a back-nine 30. She won the Mizuho Americas Open in June at Liberty National for her fifth LPGA Tour victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty much I think trying to make putts for sure here,\u201d Thitikul said. \u201cI mean, like the green, it\u2019s not easy. It\u2019s so slopey. And then you need to judge the putt really perfectly to roll it in the hole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hull eagled the par-5 11th and birdied the final two holes for a 65. The English player is coming off a runner-up finish in Houston as part of the Aramco series on the Ladies European Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just firing at the pin pretty much,\u201d Hull said. \u201cI like going at the pins. I find it boring otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cowan, from Germany, matched Hull with a 65. Maja Stark (66), Sei Young Kim (68) and Gigi Stoll (69) were 10 under.<\/p>\n
Second-ranked Nelly Korda topped the group at 9 under after a 68. She\u2019s winless this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just have to really stay aggressive,\u201d Korda said. \u201cThe greens are pretty soft so you can, but hitting fairways, hitting greens is the key to eventually having a putt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defending champion Lydia Ko shot 69 to get to 5 under.<\/p>\n
Alison Lee missed the cut in her first event since giving birth to a boy in April, shooting 76-73.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAINEVILLE, Ohio \u2014 Chanettee Wannasaen maintained a two-shot lead Friday in the Kroger Queen City Championship, with top-ranked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-153182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}