It's no longer the whole force gales that hit the PGA Tour in 2013 -- take into account Dustin Johnson triumphing the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in a trifling 3 rounds? -- but the LPGA LOTTE Championship is seeing a few quite strong winds.
I'm sure you wonder why you see Michelle Wie's picture instead of Angela Stanford's. It's simple -- the LPGA hasn't posted any photos from the 2nd round yet! Michelle is in 2nd place, one shot back, so I posted her pic because I found one. (If you wonder why it's hard to find pics of the other leaders, it's partly because Kapolei is her home so she gets even more attention than usual this week. But it doesn't help that the leaderboard basically flip-flopped since Wednesday either.) As I'm writing this, the LPGA hasn't even posted a 2nd round report yet. There should be something up by the time you read this.
It's a shame that it's taking see you later even though. Angela's 8-underneath sixty four became some distance and away the first-rate spherical of the day. The wind has been blowing pretty difficult due to the fact that earlier than the first spherical and, although Michelle instructed GC that the wind wasn't pretty as horrific as Wednesday, it picked up again throughout the later a part of the round. The morning organizations had the first-class of the draw.
Nevertheless, best Angela's sixty four, Cristie Kerr's sixty six, and Michelle's sixty seven stood out at some point of the pre-broadcast rounds. (Haru Nomura had the great round of the overdue times; she additionally posted a 67 and is within the Top10 on the leaderboard.)
The harm from the first spherical become terminal for the various large names. The cut got here at 4 and a number of favorites absolutely could not get better, Anna Nordqvist being the maximum apparent. (She shot 76-seventy seven to miss the cut by means of 5.) Paula Creamer slightly saved her cut streak alive, making the reduce with the aid of one ( 3).
I need to mention a pair of truly amazing rounds that have been performed within the afternoon wave. Amateur So Young Lee published a 70 to reach -4 on the midway factor -- she's not at the same time as antique as Lydia Ko (who's simplest at -1 after 2 rounds). And rookie Jaye Marie Green shot an 80 inside the first spherical and somehow controlled a 68 in the wind to make the cut right at the quantity!
So right here's the Top11 at the leaderboard at the midway factor:
- -8: Angela Stanford
- -7: Michelle Wie
- -6: Cristie Kerr, Inbee Park, So Yeon Ryu, Hyo Joo Kim
- -5: Ha Na Jang, Se Ri Pak
- -4: Haru Nomura, Katie Burnett, So Young Lee
If you want to see it, remember that GC is showing 4 hours of live golf starting at 6:30pm ET tonight.
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