The American golfer, Ally Ewing, is chasing her first LPGA main championship. Ewing has made the primary two days of the AIG Women’s Open at Walton Heath look straightforward.
She fired off a 66 on Friday to finest her Thursday 68 to sit down 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 rather well,” Ewing stated. “I left myself in good place off the tee for a lot of the day apart from 18. I used to be in a position to hit actually good iron pictures into the greens — give myself lots of appears, which you’ll be able to have appears, however you’ve obtained 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 Girls’s Open.pic.twitter.com/EPaCqMZslJ
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“I rolled them — not all of them had been tremendous straight,” Ewing stated. “I rolled in some breaking putts, which I really feel like that’s at all times a confidence increase to match up the road and velocity. So yeah, it was a really stable 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 centered that Ewing was unaware of simply how properly she performed.
I didn’t actually even know till I signed my scorecard that I had 4 birdies in a row, so I might most likely say that stretch from like 6 to 11 is form of a little bit little bit of a blur however yeah, I used to be very within the current on all of these pictures.”
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. Nonetheless, her finest end on the AIG Girls’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 must be able to regroup as a result of the previous is the previous,” Ewing stated. “Like nothing that I’ve accomplished by way of 36 holes can do something for me for the subsequent 36, so I’m simply going to be mentally ready for every particular person day that presents itself.”
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