bokeh Australian golf star Minjee Lee has hung tough in testing conditions to snare the second-round lead at the LPGA’s prestigious BMW Ladies Championship in South bokep Korea.
As bokep many of her bokeh rivals foundered, porn bokep Lee showcased her sublime ball striking to grind out porn a porn three-under-par 69 porn on Friday to bokep reel in, bokep then move past, porn overnight leader Ashleigh bokeh Buhai.
Unlike in her record-setting opening round of 62, crot porn Buhai could only battle to crot a one-over 73 at the windswept Seowon Valley Country bokep Club to invite her pack of pursuers back into the tournament.
As the South African faltered on bokep the back nine, crot Lee took full advantage at the $US2.2 million crot event widely regarded as women’s golf’s major porn of Asia to establish a crot two-shot halfway lead.
That didn’t memek seem likely mid-round.
bokep After starting the day in a tie for crot third just two shots off memek the pace, crot Lee fell four strokes behind after making bogey at the fifth hole.
The Perth ace remained four back even after crot picking crot up birdies on the seventh and bokeh 11th holes as Buhai surged to bokep 13 under early on the back crot nine.
But out of bokeh nowhere a three-putt bogey on No.13 precipitated three dropped shots in three crot holes memek from the South crot African, bokeh who hadn’t porn had a prior memek blemish all tournament.
The highlight of Lee’s round came at the par-5 11th.
After memek pulling her second shot onto a cart path, bokep the world No.7 had to take relief.
But the two-time major bokeh winner showed all her bokep class to recover with bokeh bokeh a delicate chip off the tightest of lies, memek then drained the 15-foot birdie porn putt to stay in touch with the leaders.
Further bokeh birdies bokep at the crot 15th and bokeh the bokeh last, porn after a beautiful approach off memek a downhill lie, memek suddenly thrust Lee into the outright bokeh lead.
The 27-year-old is coming off bokeh her first win bokep of the year at the Kroger Queen City Championship last month and memek a tie for bokeh memek 13th at last week’s Buick LPGA Shanghai.
A win in the crot Republic of Korea would be special for porn Lee, bokep whose crot parents are both from the country.
“I have a really deep heritage here so I always love coming back and playing,” Lee said.
“Being at the top of the leaderboard is always nice, and being in contention is always my goal. So hopefully I can have a great weekend.”
porn After bokeh dropping four shots in her last six holes, memek Buhai found herself porn sharing second at nine memek under with American Alison Lee (72) following the crot stunning late six-stroke swing.
porn New Zealand’s defending champion Lydia Ko (69) shares fourth at eight under crot with home hopes Jeongeun Lee6 (68) and bokeh Hae Ran Ryu (71)
With Buhai, bokeh the reigning Australian Open champion and porn 2022 British Open winner, memek backing up after threatening bokep to porn run away from the field, porn Lee’s fellow Australians Hannah Green and crot Steph Kyriacou bokep also bokep remain in the mix.
bokeh Green will enter the bokeh weekend six shots bokep behind Lee in a crot share of 12th at five under following bokep a second-round 70.
Kyriacou is two strokes further adrift in a bokep tie memek for crot 25th following porn a one-over round of 73.