Evian Championship – second spherical
-11 L Woad (Eng); -10 A Iwai (Jpn); -8 M Saigo (Jpn), Haeran Ryu (Kor); -6 C Hull (Eng), J Thitikul (Tha), M Yamashita (Jpn), Nastasia Nadaud (Fra)
Chosen others: -5 A Nordqvist (Swe), M Stark (Swe); -4 L Ko (Nzl); -3 J Kupcho (US); +1 N Korda (US), A Corpuz (US); +3 C Boutier (Fra), L Maguire (Ire), M Khang (US); +5 C Ciganda (Spa)
England’s Lottie Woad shot a seven-under-par 64 to take the second-round lead on the Evian Championship as world primary Nelly Korda missed the lower.
Woad, who’s again on the venue the place she secured her LPGA Tour card 12 months in the past, sits at 11 below total. That may be a stroke away from Japan’s Aki Iwai, who had led in a single day.
“I’ve bought clearly good reminiscences from final 12 months right here and I just like the golf course, so I feel that positively helps,” mentioned Woad, who completed in a tie for third in 2025.
“I feel I’ve simply bought barely higher in all areas. Nothing too completely different. I feel simply mentally been in these positions a bit extra so I feel I am slightly calmer below strain.”
Woad made eight birdies, along with her solitary dropped shot coming on the par-four tenth.
She adopted that bogey with three successive birdies and narrowly missed an eagle putt on the par-five 18th earlier than tapping in for a 4.
Nonetheless, Korda’s bid to finish a profession Grand Slam within the east of France is over for this 12 months regardless of carding a spherical of 69 on Friday that left her at one over.
It’s the first time the American has missed a lower since June 2024 and it arrives on the identical day that the long and impressive run of cuts made by males’s primary Scottie Scheffler additionally ended.
Iwai’s compatriot Mao Saigo is an extra two strokes adrift together with South Korea’s Haeran Ryu, who triumphed on the Ladies’s PGA Championship final month.
Charley Hull, who signed for a 70 and world quantity two Jeeno Thitikul, characteristic amongst 4 gamers in a tie for fifth at six below.
In the meantime, a variety of excessive profile gamers can be heading dwelling alongside Korda, with the likes of Allisen Corpuz, Lilia Vu, Carlota Ciganda, Celine Boutier and Leona Maguire all failing to succeed in the lower line.
