Ryu, a playoff winner over Hee in July at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, USA, has moved to a 6-under 140 total at famed Royal Melbourne's sand-belt Composite Course, the 2011 Presidents Cup venue that is hosting a women's professional
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Hee shot a 66, the best score of the first two days of a tournament historically being tri-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour, Australian Ladies Professional Golf and the Ladies European Tour.
American Stacy Lewis, a first-time major winner at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, birdied the 12th and 13th holes to take the lead at 7-under, but, followed those heroics with a shock triple bogey 7 on the 14th and then, clearly rattled, continued to implode with two more bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes.
Out of the blue, she then bounced back some of the way with an eagle at the par-5 17th before closing her see-saw round with a par for a level-par 73 that enabled her to finish at 4-under, just two off the pace as the event moved into the weekend's final 36 holes.
She is tied with four-time Australian Open champion Karrie Webb, who slipped backwards with a 75
American Jessica Korda, whose father, Petr Korda, won the 1998 Australian Open tennis title, England's Melissa Reid and Paraguay's Julieta Granada were also at 4-under, Korda after a 70. Reid a 71, and Granada a 72.
Two-time defending champion Yani Tseng, who came into this event full of early-season ambition, is not having a
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