England’s Mimi Rhodes shot a three-under-par 69 to take the outright lead after the second spherical of the PIF Saudi Women Worldwide.
The 24-year-old made birdies on the tenth, thirteenth, first and second holes, with the one blemish on her scorecard a bogey on the sixteenth, to achieve 11 below total .
The 2025 Women European Tour rookie of the 12 months is a stroke away from South Africa’s Casandra Alexander and Japan’s Chizzy Iwai at Riyadh Golf Membership.
Spain’s Carlota Ciganda and Japan’s Rio Takeda are one shot additional again in a tie for fourth place.
South Korea’s Choi Hye-jin , who was alongside Rhodes on the high of the leaderboard after a gap 64, is amongst eight gamers on eight below.
“I wasn’t placing an excessive amount of stress on myself this week, but it surely’s clearly an enormous occasion,” mentioned Rhodes.
“I wished to do effectively and begin with a minimize made and I’ve carried out greater than that. I will not strategy the weekend any otherwise.
“I am going to get again into the zone, I’ll take it one shot at a time make birdies on the market with minimal bogeys and see what occurs.”
Two of Rhodes’ compatriots – Esme Hamilton and world quantity 5 Charley Hull – are well-placed at seven below.
That is the primary 12 months an LET season has opened with the match in Riyadh. Gamers are competing for a document prize fund of greater than 40m euros (£34.5m) throughout the 2026 marketing campaign.
