England’s Mimi Rhodes shot a three-under-par 69 to take the outright lead after the second round of the PIF Saudi Ladies International.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old made birdies on the 10th, 13th, first and second holes, with the only blemish on her scorecard a bogey on the 16th, to reach 11 under overall .<\/p>\n
The 2025 Ladies European Tour rookie of the year is a stroke clear of South Africa’s Casandra Alexander and Japan’s Chizzy Iwai at Riyadh Golf Club. <\/p>\n
Spain’s Carlota Ciganda and Japan’s Rio Takeda are one shot further back in a tie for fourth place. <\/p>\n
South Korea’s Choi Hye-jin , who was alongside Rhodes at the top of the leaderboard after an opening 64, is among eight players on eight under. <\/p>\n
“I wasn’t putting too much pressure on myself this week, but it’s obviously a big event,” said Rhodes. <\/p>\n
“I wanted to do well and start with a cut made and I’ve done more than that. I won’t approach the weekend any differently. <\/p>\n
“I’ll get back into the zone, I will take it one shot at a time make birdies out there with minimum bogeys and see what happens.”<\/p>\n
Two of Rhodes’ compatriots – Esme Hamilton and world number five Charley Hull – are well-placed at seven under.<\/p>\n
This is the first year an LET season has opened with the tournament in Riyadh. Players are competing for a record prize fund of more than 40m euros (\u00a334.5m) across the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Mimi Rhodes shot a three-under-par 69 to take the outright lead after the second round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-466170","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\/466170","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=466170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}