Grace Kim made a hole-in-one and mixed with Austin Kim for eight birdies for a nine-under 61 to present them a five-way share of the lead within the Dow Championship.
In actual fact, the very best rating of the second spherical belonged to the Danish pair of Nicole Broch Estrup and Nanna Kertz Madsen, who carded 10-under 60s on the ultimate two holes.
Ellie Ewing and Jennifer Kupcho of america shot 64, the identical foursome rating that they had within the first spherical, and likewise joined the 12-under-par leaderboard together with Thailand’s tandem of Jaravi Bunchant and Shanetti Vannasaen and Taiwan’s duo of Ssu-chia Chen and Wei-Ling Hsu.
Three different groups, together with England’s Charlie Hull and Georgia Corridor, are one shot behind. Lexi Thompson and Brooke Henderson are two photographs behind at 10 below.
Grace Kim mentioned of her ace on the par-3 seventh gap: “I’ve had quite a lot of shaves and that is truly my first so it is fairly thrilling.
“Clearly, I used to be simply making an attempt to get it shut. All I see is form of disappearing.”
Grace and Austin Kim birdied their subsequent gap after which 5 extra on the again 9.
“Loads of good got here out of that gap, because of Grace,” Auston mentioned. “It was a really optimistic feeling from then on.”
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