The American golfer, Ally Ewing, is chasing her first LPGA main championship. Ewing has made the primary two days of the AIG Ladies’s Open at Walton Heath look straightforward.
She fired off a 66 on Friday to finest her Thursday 68 to take a seat at 10-under and maintain a five-shot lead over Andrea Lee and Minami Katsu getting into the weekend.
As many others struggled on Walton Heath, Ewing thrived.
“This golf course requires you to drive the ball very well,” Ewing stated. “I left myself in good place off the tee for a lot of the day aside from 18. I used to be capable of hit actually good iron photographs into the greens — give myself quite a lot of appears to be like, which you’ll have appears to be like, however you’ve acquired to have the ability to capitalize on them.”
With seven birdies and a bogey on the final, Ally Ewing shoots 66 to take a five-shot lead halfway by way of Day 2 of the AIG Ladies’s Open.pic.twitter.com/EPaCqMZslJ
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“I rolled them — not all of them have been tremendous straight,” Ewing stated. “I rolled in some breaking putts, which I really feel like that’s all the time a confidence enhance to match up the road and velocity. So yeah, it was a really strong day.”
Ewing went out in 30 strokes after making 4 straight birdies. She posted seven birdies and one bogey in her second spherical. The 30-year-old was so targeted that Ewing was unaware of simply how nicely she performed.
I didn’t actually even know till I signed my scorecard that I had 4 birdies in a row, so I might in all probability say that stretch from like 6 to 11 is sort of just a little little bit of a blur however yeah, I used to be very within the current on all of these photographs.”
Can Ewing go wire to wire and declare her first main championship? She was on one other wavelength Friday.
The previous Mississippi State Bulldog has three wins on the LPGA Tour. Nevertheless, her finest end on the AIG Ladies’s Open was a T16 in 2017.
“Like I’m going to know the place I’m at clearly on the finish of the day, however mentally you need to be able to regroup as a result of the previous is the previous,” Ewing stated. “Like nothing that I’ve completed by way of 36 holes can do something for me for the following 36, so I’m simply going to be mentally ready for every particular person day that presents itself.”
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