{"id":110895,"date":"2025-08-01T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110895\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:12:10","slug":"womens-open-2025-miyu-yamashita-builds-lead-with-second-round-65-at-royal-porthcawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110895\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Open 2025: Miyu Yamashita builds lead with second-round 65 at Royal Porthcawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farnham-born Woad, the pre-tournament favourite, shot a level-par 72 in her opening round but had charged into the top five with three holes of her second round to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After five straight pars to start, Woad made six birdies and one bogey across the next 10 holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then, all of her positive momentum was halted on the par-four 16th:<\/p>\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shot one &#8211; drives on to the fairway<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shot two &#8211; sends approach right of green into thick rough<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shot three &#8211; attempts to pitch out but ball remains in similar spot<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shot four &#8211; takes penalty drop<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shot five &#8211; pitches on to green<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shot six &#8211; 30-foot putt comes to rest close to hole<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shot seven &#8211; finds hole<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After that setback, which was the only major blemish in an otherwise exceptional round, Woad made two solid pars to finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s probably the toughest hole on the course,&#8221; she said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The tee shot is hard to hit the fairway and then you&#8217;ve got a three-wood into a very strong wind. Anything that&#8217;s missing the target is going to be exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I pushed it and got a pretty unlucky lie. It wasn&#8217;t too thick around there apart from where I was, so I couldn&#8217;t really do much with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about her second round as a whole after a tough opening day, she added: &#8220;I&#8217;d certainly take it [two under par] now, but not when I was standing on the 16th tee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve just got to try to play well over the weekend. The leaderboard is pretty packed so I can move up a bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farnham-born Woad, the pre-tournament favourite, shot a level-par 72 in her opening round but had charged into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-110895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114954865430036768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}