World number one American Nelly Korda shows her stripes this Friday To take sole leadership of the British Open, the fifth and last ‘major’ of the season Ladies golf course which runs through Sundays on the famous Scottish ‘Old Course’ at St Andrews.
Korda, Looking for the third ‘great’ of his career, he shot a second consecutive 68 (4 under par) to take first place. With a cumulative of -8. In his second day’s card he highlighted four birdies without a single mistake.
The 26-year-old American is three strokes ahead of her compatriot Lilia Wu, the world number two. and the English Charley Hull, who was the first leader at St Andrews on Thursday. The Chinese Ruoning Yin is classified at four. And now there is a large group of players at five, among them the Olympic champion, New Zealander Lydia Ko.
Iturrioz, the best of Spanish
Among the Spanish, The best is the Balearic Nuria Iturrioz, who placed herself with a total score of +1 thanks to a round of 70 (-2). This Friday to smooth out the opening day’s 75 (+3) somewhat.
Nelly Korda with driver at the start of hole 3 at St. Andrews / EFE
After thatAmateur Julia López, who is at +2 after scoring 74 this Friday. Marta Martín is with +3, Carlota Ciganda is with +4 and María Hernández, the only one who did not make the cut, says goodbye with +7.
Ana Peláez, from Malaga, is also still not in the tournament, in her case she was disqualified this Friday for using a laser viewer to measure distances, something prohibited in this tournament and the player was unaware of it, Since it can be used in almost all the rest of the championship,
