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The highest 30 and ties after the primary two days progress to Saturday’s ultimate spherical at Augusta Nationwide; watch the ultimate spherical reside on Saturday from 5pm on Sky Sports activities Golf and – totally free – on the Sky Sports activities Golf YouTube channel

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Bohyun Park claims the primary ever Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner hole-in-one on the par-three eighth

Bohyun Park claims the primary ever Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner hole-in-one on the par-three eighth

World novice No 1 Rose Zhang set extra information on her approach to taking a five-shot lead into the ultimate spherical of the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner.

Zhang adopted an opening-round 66 at Champions Retreat in Georgia by mixing an eagle and 6 birdies with a lone bogey in a seven-under 65, transferring her to 13 underneath and seeing her set the course file for the second day operating.

The American adopted three birdies in her first 4 holes by making a 30-foot eagle on the par-five ninth, then cancelled out a bogey on the twelfth by making the most of the par-five 14th.

Rose Zhang is closing in on a dominant Augusta National Women's Amateur victory

Rose Zhang is closing in on a dominant Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner victory

Zhang picked up a shot on the sixteenth and chipped to 3 toes to arrange a birdie on the par-five final, giving her a commanding benefit over the chasing pack heading into Saturday’s ultimate spherical at Augusta Nationwide.

“From my previous expertise [with a big lead], it is essential to know you have got an entire area chasing you and something can occur,” Zhang mentioned. “Each gap, each rating issues. I am simply going to play as onerous as I can.”

Sweden’s Andrea Lignell carded a three-under 69 to maneuver to eight underneath and in second spot forward of American Jenny Bae, who posted a second-round 68, with no different participant within the area with 10 strokes of the lead.

Bohyun Park is tied-ninth after a hole-in-one on the par-three eighth helped her to a second-round 70, whereas Charlotte Heath heads the British curiosity and is tied-14th going into the ultimate spherical.

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All of the 72-player area will get a apply spherical at Augusta Nationwide on Friday, forward of The Masters happening on the identical venue subsequent week, then the 31 gamers who made the reduce will play the ultimate spherical on Saturday.

The ultimate spherical will embody one other 15-year-old Gianna Clemente, who performed her first US Girls’s Beginner at age 11 and final 12 months made it by way of Monday qualifying for 3 consecutive LPGA Tour occasions.

Defending champion Anna Davis missed the reduce by two strokes after two bogeys within the final three holes noticed her submit a level-par 72, having been handed a four-shot penalty on the opening day for twice lifting and cleansing her golf ball within the tough.

The winner of the 54-hole occasion, offering they continue to be an novice, receives an invitation to the US Girls’s Open, the AIG Girls’s Open and the Chevron Championship, three of the 5 ladies’s majors, plus any USGA, R&A and PGA of America novice championships she is eligible for.

Watch the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner reside this week on Sky Sports activities! Reside protection continues on Saturday from 5pm on Sky Sports activities Golf and – totally free – on the Sky Sports activities Golf YouTube channel



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