HONOLULU – Youmin Hwang played in the final group from his first T-shirt on Thursday in the second round of the Lotte Championship. She filmed a 10-under 62 on Friday and then does it again.
Fans opened Eagle By-Die, dropping the stroke in the fourth and then reaching 15 under 129 with eight birdies, opening a three-stroke lead with two rounds remaining. Playing with sponsored invitations, fans have won two victories in the Korean LPGA.
“First of all, I have beaten the best score in my life,” said the 22-year-old fan from Korea. “At the same time, I broke the track record, so I feel very good.”
Fans featured 62 tournament records set by Lisette Salas in the final round of 2013, and Christie Kerr played at the Colina Golf Course in the third round of 2017.
“At first, I feel that I’m very different about the course, especially with regard to the type of grass,” fans said. “That’s very different from playing for the Korean and Korean LPGA.”
Japan’s first round leader, Akie Yiwai, held 68 in the afternoon session and joined the 12-under American Jessica Polvasnik (65).
“Specifically, it feels like there’s little difference,” Iwa said. “It’s getting harder to see the lines.”
Porvasnik performed in the first group of the first tees. She is a 30-year-old LPGA Tour rookie after finishing fourth in the EPSON Tour rankings last year.
“I just hit a lot of fairways, lots of greenery, I gave myself a lot of great looks and made some of them,” said Porvasnik, a former Ohio player.
Iwai played in a group with twin sister Chisato. He was under 8 after 66 years of age. The 23-year-old Japanese sisters each won as tour rookies. Chisat broke into Mayacoba, Mexico in May, and Akie won the Portland Classic in August.
Japan’s Nasa Taoka and Australia’s Gabriella Raffel each shot 69 to 10 under.
Second place, Nelly Korda, was under 8 years old, 67 in the morning.
“The main difference between today and yesterday was that the putt was dropped,” Korda said. “I was a little crazy yesterday and yesterday, so it was fun to play.
Away from the seven seasons, Korda has not won this year and has lost his No. 1 ranking to Jeeno Thitikul. This tour had different winners in all 24 official tournaments this year.
Charlie Hull, who played alongside Korda, was under the age of 68 and under the age of seven. Hal won the Kuroga Queen City Championship in Ohio three weeks ago.
“I just played pretty solid golf,” Henderson said. “It’s a bit difficult to get used to the pace because Greene feels like he has to hit the putts.”
Brooke Henderson, the 2018 and 2019 winner at Ko Olina, was under four after the second 70 years old.
Defending Champion A Lim Kim was under 74 years old and under 4 years old.
After the event, the LPGA will head to Asia for the tournament for the fifth consecutive week in Shanghai, Korea, Malaysia and Japan.
