Girls’s Irish Open – second spherical
-15 C Alexander (SA); -10 B Navarossa (US), S Kouskova (Cze); -9 L Rydqvist (Swe), C Viden (Swe); -8 L Pettersson (Swe); -7 A Foersterling (Ger); -5 P Urs (Ind), A Fanali (Ita); N Komulainen (Fin), C Screene (Ire).
Chosen others: -4 L M Humphreys (Eng), A Hewson (Eng); -3 A Dawson (IoM), G Clews (Eng), H Darling (Sco), L Corridor (Wal) -2 L Maguire (Ire), A Donegan (Ire); -1 A Foster (Ire), A Wilson (NI); +4 O Mehaffey (NI)
Two eagles propelled in a single day chief Casandra Alexander to a second-round 66 because the South African seized management of the Girls’s Irish Open on the Ok Membership.
Following a bogey-free 63 on Thursday, Alexander eagled the par-five tenth – her opening gap – on Friday and adopted that with back-to-back birdies.
Having dropped a shot on 13, the 27-year-old carded a birdie two on 17 earlier than recording her second eagle of the spherical on the third.
After a bogey on six, a birdie on seven gave Alexander a 36-hole complete of 129 to sit down 5 pictures away from the Czech Republic’s Sara Kouskova (68) and American Brianna Navarrosa (65).
Canice Screene leads the house problem as she lies in a four-way tie for eighth on 5 underneath after mixing seven birdies with two bogeys in a five-under 67, however Aine Donegan slipped again to 2 underneath with a disappointing 73.
After opening with a 71, Leona Maguire reached 4 underneath for the event however bogeyed two of her final three holes to fall again to 2 underneath on the midway mark.
