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Robyn Choi is the leading Australian after two rounds of the Women\u2019s British Open at Royal Lytham. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\nFavourite Haeran Ryu has moved into the halfway lead at the Women\u2019s British Open as Australian hopes again failed to trouble the upper reaches of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
Robyn Choi led the Aussie challenge, following her first-round 70 with a 71 to finish on a one-under-par 141, six shots off the lead.<\/p>\n
The next highest Aussie was Hannah Green, two-over after carding a 73. But Cassie Porter\u2019s ambitions disintegrated with a round of 78 leaving her six over, two short of the projected cut.<\/p>\n
Robyn Choi is the leading Australian after two rounds of the Women\u2019s British Open at Royal Lytham. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n
Ryu recovered from a shaky start to her second round to post a two-under \u200c69 and reach seven under for the tournament at a sun-baked Royal Lytham on Friday.<\/p>\n
The world No.3 \u200cRyu, bidding for her third successive major triumph after winning the PGA Championship and this month\u2019s Evian Championship, \u200cbogeyed her third hole and double-bogeyed the fifth to slip back.<\/p>\n
But the South Korean responded superbly and was flawless after that with five birdies, including one on the 18th that gave her the outright lead heading into the weekend.<\/p>\n
Ryu leads by a stroke from Japan\u2019s Shiho Kuwaki who went out early and carded \u200ca solid one-under \u200c70 to be \u2060the long-time clubhouse leader on a day marked by extremely slow \u200bplay with the afternoon groups taking well over five hours.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Miyu Yamashita was packing her bags for home after a quadruple bogey at the par-four 18th meant she missed the cut with a second-round 77.<\/p>\n
Overnight leader Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand went round in nine more shots than her stunning first-round 64 as a \u2060two-over 73 left her tied with American Yealimi Noh, two \u200cshots \u200bback.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t hit close to the pins as I did yesterday. Maybe the pin positions were kind of \u200bhard,\u201d she \u200csaid by way of explanation for her relative struggle. \u201cJust going to have to be patient at the \u200bweekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
World No.1 Nelly Korda, like Ryu bidding for a third major this season, hit back after an opening-round 73 with a six-birdie 68 putting her in the mix for the \u200bweekend \u200bat one under along with 2024 champion \u200bLydia Ko of New Zealand.<\/p>\n
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England\u2019s Lottie Woad vents her frustration during the second round of the Women\u2019s British Open. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n
England\u2019s world No.5 Lottie \u200cWoad maintained her steady progress with a level-par 71 although a bogey at the 18th, only her third in two rounds, where she drove into a deep pot bunker, left her five shots adrift of Ryu.<\/p>\n
Woad is trying to become the first home winner since Georgia Hall, also at Lytham, in 2018.<\/p>\n
She was \u200bin a group of eight players packed together on two-under, including compatriot Charley Hull.<\/p>\n
Of the other Australians, Minjee Lee went round in one shot fewer than on Thursday but is seven over. Karis Davidson had a marginally better second day but finished a shot further back and Kelsey Bennett was nine over.<\/p>\n
Grace Kim\u2019s woes intensified. She followed up an opening 75 with a 77 that left her 10 over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Favourite Haeran Ryu has moved into the halfway lead at the Women\u2019s British Open as Australian hopes again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17010,459,6068,44,460,10064,1777,1779,3982,17436,2277,10344,17706,8756,518,4313],"class_list":["post-44967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aig-womens-open","tag-article","tag-charley-hull","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-haeran-ryu","tag-jeeno-thitikul","tag-lydia-ko","tag-nelly-korda","tag-overseas-sport","tag-ra","tag-robyn-choi","tag-royal-lytham-st-annes-golf-club","tag-shiho-kuwaki","tag-united-kingdom","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}