{"id":48298,"date":"2026-06-06T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/nelly-korda-steps-into-contention-as-alison-li-and-ruoning-ying-share-lead-at-u-s-womens-open\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:52:09","slug":"nelly-korda-steps-into-contention-as-alison-li-and-ruoning-ying-share-lead-at-u-s-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/nelly-korda-steps-into-contention-as-alison-li-and-ruoning-ying-share-lead-at-u-s-womens-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda steps into contention as Alison Li and Ruoning Ying share lead at U.S. Women&#8217;s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Alison Li and Ruoning Ying grabbed a share of the mid-way lead at the U.S. Women&#8217;s Open at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, with Nelly Korda joining the fray.<\/p>\n<p>Local hope Li shot a 68 in the second round to move to four under par with China&#8217;s Yin. He was one of only two players without a bogey on Friday, and with his second 69, he is the only player to break 70 on both days.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love it,\u201d Yin said of playing the tricky course. \u201cI always say the more difficult (the course), the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The night&#8217;s leader, Jennifer Kupcho, shot a 73 to put her in the top six, one stroke behind the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Korda, ranked number one in the world, shot a 67, the lowest round of the day, and was just two strokes behind the leader.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Lottie Ward birdied the 16th hole to finish the weekend on the cut mark with a 73, one stroke behind compatriot Charlie Hull.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.A.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Li and Ruoning Ying grabbed a share of the mid-way lead at the U.S. Women&#8217;s Open at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, with Nelly Korda joining the fray. Local hope Li shot a 68 in the second round to move to four under par with China&#8217;s Yin. He was one of only two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-48298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}