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19-04-2025
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Swede Lindblad shares lead with Buhai at LA Championship
Sweden's Ingrid Lindblad has a share of the second round lead at the LPGA's LA Championship at El Caballero Country Club on Friday. (Katelyn Mulcahy) Sweden's Ingrid Lindblad produced a blistering 9-under-par round of 63 to share the lead with South Africa's Ashleigh Buhai after the second round of the LPGA Tour's LA Championship on Friday. Advertisement After reaching the turn at 6-under, Lindblad suffered her only setback of the round when she made bogey on the par-4 10th but she responded in emphatic fashion with four straight birdies. It was a career low round to-par for the 25-year-old Swede but she felt it could have been even better, noting she only made par on the two shortest par-5 holes on the El Caballero course. "I just read the greens really well so it was like every putt I stood over I'm like, okay, this has a chance to go in," she said. "So read the greens really well. Made a couple of these like good 10-footers, 17-footers, so it wasn't just tap-ins, tap-ins for par," she said. Advertisement "I birdied the other two par-5s, but the two shorter ones I only made par, so I feel like it could have been lower," she added. Buhai, who had shared the first round lead with China's Liu Yan, was solid with a 4-under 68 after her outstanding 63 on Thursday. "It's always difficult to follow a low one, but I'm pretty happy how I played today. Pins were a little trickier, but still some that were gettable," said the South African. "Missed a few more greens, but proud of how I hung in there, made good up and downs to keep me in it today," added the 2022 British Open winner. Advertisement Australian Minjee Lee is solo third, a stroke behind the leading pair after she shot a bogey-free 7-under 65. Liu shot 70 to fall down the leaderboard to tied for fourth along with Japan's Miyu Yamashita and American Lauren Coughlin. World number one Nelly Korda is four strokes back as she looks to hit form ahead of her title defence at the season's first major -- the Chevron Championship in Houston. Korda could have been even closer to contention had it not been for a double bogey on the fourth followed by a bogey. "I think it's good prep obviously playing a week before a major because you kind of see where your game is at, what you need to work on, what you need to focus on," she said. Advertisement "Whenever you put a couple of solid rounds together, a lot of it is about confidence, as well as building confidence, which is always really nice going into big events," she said. The tournament is taking place at El Caballero Country Club while renovation work is carried out at the established venue at Wilshire. sev/bfm
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18-04-2025
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Yan and Buhai share lead at LA Championship
Liu Yan of China shared the lead after the first round of the LA Championship (Katelyn Mulcahy) China's Liu Yan and South Africa's Ashleigh Buhai both shot 9-under par rounds of 63 to share the lead after the first round of the LA Championship on Thursday. But on a day of low scoring at El Caballero Country Club, Sweden's Frida Kinhult was just a shot off the leading pair and a chasing pack of five were just a further stroke behind. Advertisement Liu made a shaky start with a bogey on her opening hold, the par-4 10th, but she was electric from then on making birdies on three of her next four holes before an eagle on the par-5 16th. She finished her round with three birdies in a row and carded her lowest score on the LPGA Tour. "I think on my first hole I was a little nervous. I had high expectations for myself and I was nervous," said the 29-year-old, searching for her first win on the LPGA Tour which she joined in 2018. "I got bogey and before the next hole I told myself, 'You have to be calm and you have to be confident and be brave. You can do it.' I just talked with myself," she said. Advertisement Buhai, the 2022 British Open winner, was blemish free through her round, starting with a birdie on the tenth. "Obviously any day you have a bogey-free round, that's a good day. I was very patient; hit a lot of good shots. I mean, you have to hole a lot of good putts as well. But I felt the pins were in locations we could access them today as long as you use the slopes correctly," she said. "I feel that's kind of what this course is like. If you hit it into the right bowls you'll get good results; otherwise you can short side yourself very easily and it can't be fun," added the 35-year old. Kinhult was also bogey-free and finished her round off in style with birdies on each of the last three holes although she accepted she had relied on her putter. Advertisement "I guess it was a smooth ride. Saved maybe two or three pars from, I don't know, six, nine footers. Other than that... golf felt easy for once, so hopefully we'll enjoy that ride the next few days as well," she said. The chasing pack on 7-under includes South Korean trio Jenny Shin, Chun In-gee and Lee Jeong-eun along with China's Miranda Wang and Sweeden's Madelene Sagstrom. Sagstrom, who tasted victory in the LPGA Match Play event in Las Vegas earlier this month, ended her round with a hole-in-one on the par-3 ninth her first ever ace on the tour. But with a tight leaderboard, American Nelly Korda, last year's Tour Player of the Year, who racked up seven victories in 2024, was tied for 15th but was just four shots off the lead. Korda made three bogeys on her round but all of them were three putts after she shit 18 out of 18 greens. Her round was saved by a streak of four straight birdies on her back nine. sev/bfm
