AIG Women’s Open: Charley Hull five behind leader Ally Ewing at top of Walton Heath leaderboard after second round | Golf News

Ally Ewing playing cards 5 birdies in six holes on her solution to second-round 66 at Walton Heath to guide at 10 below; England’s Charley Hull 5 behind after bogey-free spherical of 68; Watch third spherical reside on Saturday from noon on Sky Sports activities Golf

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Highlights of the second spherical of the AIG Girls’s Open from Walton Heath.

England’s Charley Hull is 5 strokes behind chief Ally Ewing on the midway stage of the AIG Girls’s Open after the American stormed to the highest of the leaderboard with a six-under 66 to sit down 10 below.

Ewing, the in a single day chief by one, got here flying out of the blocks with a run of 4 birdies to exit in 30. The 30-year-old American then picked up additional photographs on the eleventh and sixteenth holes to maneuver seven away from the sphere.

That hole was decreased to 5 after a bogey at 18 to shut her day and with Hull carding a blemish-free 68 that contained two monster putts for birdie on the eleventh and fifteenth. The 27-year-old, looking for her first main win, joins Andrea Lee and Minami Katsu in a tie for second at 5 below.

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Watch Charley Hull gap two enormous birdie putts on the AIG Girls’s Open!

Fellow dwelling hope Georgia Corridor has doubtless secured her place for the weekend, squeezing by way of on the projected reduce mark of two over due to a nerve-jangling birdie end at 18. In her taking part in group, Celine Boutier sits one over and is unlikely to observe her victories on the Evian Championship and Scottish Open with a 3rd in as many weeks right here.

Eire’s Leona Maguire and Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh have additionally ensured their passage by way of to the weekend

Defending champion Ashleigh Buhai, in the meantime, will doubtless not make the weekend, her title defence wilting with a one-over 73 to simply miss the reduce at three over for the event.

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Charley Hull analysed her efficiency at Spherical two of The AIG Girls’s Open as she seems to win it.

Who else is in competition?

Chevron Championship winner Lilia Vu is in competition at 4 below after a second-round 68, as is US Open champion Allisen Corpuz, sitting one additional again in with a big contingent at three below.

Atthaya Thitikul is one other at three below after returning a spherical second solely to chief Ewing’s. The previous world No 1, who began the event with a quadruple-bogey on Thursday, carded six birdies in an outstanding 67.

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Jodi Ewart Shadoff joins Sarah Stirk within the Sky Zone to debate the environment on the AIG Girls’s Open and the way the event is ‘superb for girls’s golf’.

Two-time main champions Minjee Lee and Jin Younger Ko are additionally three below, as is England’s Jodi Ewart Shadoff, the Solheim Cup hopeful recovering from a gap bogey to return a three-under 69, aided by a stretch of three consecutive birdies from holes six by way of eight.

World primary Nelly Korda and 20-year-old prodigy Rose Zhang are 9 off the lead at one below.

Ewing: First main win could be enormous!

Ewing credited her beautiful second spherical to being within the zone and nearly a trance-like state as she rattled off 5 birdies in six holes across the flip.

“I might in all probability say that stretch from like six to 11 is type of just a little little bit of a blur,” Ewing stated. “I used to be very within the current on all of these photographs.”

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AIG Girls’s Open chief Ally Ewing says she took the second spherical ‘one shot at a time’ resulting in ‘a extremely stable day general’.

She added when chatting with Sky Sports activities: “At this time I went, ‘overlook the previous, overlook the long run, keep within the now’. That is actually what I attempted to inform myself even when my heart-rate began getting up.

“Main championship golf you may by no means get too far forward pondering you have got it.”

Ewing’s earlier greatest in a significant beforehand was tied-sixth on the 2019 Chevron Championship, whereas she has two additional top-10 finishes in that yr’s Girls’s US Open and once more on the 2021 Chevron event.

Requested what it could be like to complete this week because the winner, the world No 39 stated: “It will be enormous. It is one thing I’ve clearly circled as one thing I wish to accomplish in my profession.

“I’ve had doable probabilities to try this. I have been within the final group earlier than.

“For me, I’ve obtained to lean on that just a little bit in addition to the arrogance I’ve obtained in my sport proper now.”

Who will win the AIG Girls’s Open? Watch the ultimate ladies’s main of the yr on Sky Sports activities Golf, with protection persevering with on Saturday from noon. Stream the AIG Women’s Open with NOW.

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