GWANGJU, South Korea \u2014 Haeran Ryu had two eagles and birdied her final two holes for an 8-under 64 Friday to take a two-stroke lead after 36 holes of the LPGA\u2019s BMW Ladies Championship.<\/p>\n
No. 3 -ranked Ryu had a two-round total of 13-under 131 on the Pine Beach links course. Minsum Kim also shot a bogey-free 64 and was tied for second with American Lauren Coughlin, who shot 66.<\/p>\n
Ryu has two wins this season, both in majors. She captured the KPMG Women\u2019s PGA and then the Amundi Evian Championship, before nearly claimed a third straight major title at the AIG Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n
European Solheim Cup player Julia Lopez Ramirez shot 67 and Karis Davidson of Australia, who was tied for the first-round lead, shot 68 and were tied for fourth, three strokes behind.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Sei Young Kim, who ended a five-year victory drought in 2025 with a win last year in South Korea, had a second-round 67 Friday and was at 5 under.<\/p>\n
Ruoning Yin, who is not in the field this week, won last week\u2019s tournament in Shanghai.<\/p>\n
The Maybank Championship is scheduled for next week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the third of four events on the tour\u2019s late-season Asian swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GWANGJU, South Korea \u2014 Haeran Ryu had two eagles and birdied her final two holes for an 8-under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-893002","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\/893002","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=893002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}