TAIPEI: World number one Park In-bee of South Korea pulled off a 10-under-par to claim the sole lead after the second round of the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship in Taipei yesterday.
Park held a three-shot advantage over China’s Feng Shanshan with a two-day total of 126 when she pared in after the 15th to finish with a 62 for the $2m tournament at the par-72 Miramar Golf Country Club. However, she fell short of recording the second 59 in LPGA history or matching her personal-best round of 2014.
“Everything was working really good out there today. I probably didn’t hit as close as yesterday but I holed a lot of putts today,” said Park, who scored nine birdies and an eagle but had one bogey.
“I had a score this year, 61, which was my best round and I really wanted to beat that one. But yeah, just came one short.”
Also at the centre of spotlight was American Danielle Kang, who won her second new car with a hole-in-one in two consecutive weeks thanks to a 7-iron which found the bottom of the cup on the 158-yard 17th hole. “It’s pretty awesome. I was standing there and we all screamed,” Kang said. “Everyone was saying: ‘Are you kidding me? Again? Another car? And everyone is saying they wanted the car.” AFP
