Oct 17, 2025, 06:22 AM ET<\/p>\n
HAENAM, South Korea — Sei Young Kim<\/a> followed up her opening 10-under 62 with a 66 Friday to take a one-stroke lead into the weekend at the BMW Ladies Championship.<\/p>\n Kim had a two-round total of 16-under 128 on the Pine Beach Golf Links. She had a bogey and seven birdies, including three in a row on the front nine.<\/p>\n “There’s a lot of pressure on the third and fourth day, but it’s not just me. Everyone will have the same pressure,” Kim said Friday. “But I just want to accept the fact and enjoy the rest of the tournament.”<\/p>\n American Brooke Matthews<\/a> was in second place after a 64, the low round of the day. Hyo Joo Kim<\/a> had a 68 and was tied for third with Rio Takeda<\/a> (66), three behind Kim.<\/p>\n The bogey-free round by Matthews, a former University of Arkansas player, included birdies on her opening two holes and on 17 and 18.<\/p>\n “It’s kind of funny, I didn’t feel very comfortable coming into this week, playing China last week, didn’t really have my best stuff,” Matthews said. “But (it) made me go out there and play it shot-by-shot, lower expectations and I feel like I just managed it really well. Just kind of stayed in the moment, and ended up making some putts and racking up some good scores.”<\/p>\n Australia’s Minjee Lee<\/a> shot 66 and was tied for sixth, six strokes behind Kim. Canadian Brooke Henderson<\/a> shot 68 and was seven off the lead while defending champion Hannah Green<\/a> had a 69 and was nine strokes behind Kim.<\/p>\n This is the first of consecutive LPGA tournaments in South Korea, with the International Crown team event scheduled for next week.<\/p>\n Jeeno Thitikul<\/a> last week became the first multiple winner on the LPGA this season with a five-hole playoff win in Shanghai over Minami Katsu<\/a>. Thitikul is not playing this week but will be part of Thailand’s team in the International Crown next week.<\/p>\n After the International Crown, two more LPGA events are scheduled on the five-event Asian swing — at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 17, 2025, 06:22 AM ET HAENAM, South Korea — Sei Young Kim followed up her opening 10-under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-231438","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\/231438","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=231438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}