MAINVILLE, Ohio — Chanet Wannasaan held a two-shot lead on the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship on Friday, with top-ranked Thai stars Jeeno Thitikul and Charley Hull making an enormous transfer.
Wannasaen, a 21-year-old participant who’s about to win the LPGA Tour for the third consecutive yr, shot a 4-under 68 on the Soggy TPC River’s Bend, reaching 13 beneath 131. She opened at 63.
“I would like you to play like this,” Wanasaan mentioned. “I am not excited about the rating. I simply need a hit driver like this, I’ll hit the irons like this. I simply need to get pleasure from golf once more.”
Thitikul and Hull have been tied second to Olivia Cowan.
Wanasaan drilled a gap within the Eagle on par 4 for the second day in a row. This time it is her fourth gap on the thirteenth. She did it to tenth within the first spherical.
“Simply the identical, however I wasn’t like a ball in,” she mentioned.
Thitikul, 22, has 64 folks and has made 4 straight birdies with a again 9 30. She received her fifth LPGA Tour on the Liberty Nationwide at Mizuho Americas in June.
“I believe we’re undoubtedly attempting to make a putt right here,” Chitickle mentioned. “I imply, like inexperienced, it is not simple. It’s totally sluggish. And you actually need to evaluate the putt fully to roll it into the outlet.”
Hal eagled par 5 eleventh and birded the ultimate two holes for 65. The British athlete completed runner-up in Houston as a part of the Aramco sequence on the Ladies’s European Tour.
“I am simply firing with a pin,” Hal mentioned. “I like going to Pin, in any other case I believe it will be boring.”
Cowan, a German native, has 65 Hal. Matched with MajaStark (66), Sei Younger Kim (68), and Gigi Stoll (69).
Second ranked Nelly Corda was 9 beneath the age of 68 and led the group. She will not win this season.
“You really want to maintain your self aggressive,” Korda mentioned. “The greens are fairly delicate so you are able to do it, however hitting the green and hitting the inexperienced is the important thing to having a putt ultimately.”
Defending champion Lydiaco shot a 69 and went 5 beneath.
Allison Lee gave start to a boy in April and shot 76-73 earlier than lacking the minimize within the first occasion.
