Brewerton still on top
Becky Brewerton is in a three-way tie for the lead after Friday’s second round the Evian Masters in France.
Welshwomen Becky Brewerton is in a three-way tie for the lead on nine under par with Japan’s Ai Miyazato and Korean Na Yeon Choi after the second round of the Evian Masters in France.
Brewerton and Choi both shot four-under 68s in Evian-les-Bains for a second day while Miyazato posted an impressive 6-under 66.
Overnight co-leader In-Kyung Kim is a shot further back.
Brewerton, who won the Open de Espana on Sunday, was on course to hold the lead on her own after carding four birdies and an eagle, but two bogeys in her last three holes set her back.
The 26-year-old said: “My short game was excellent. Everything was great. I holed a couple of really nice putts again, chipped in (at the fifth hole) and just felt very good in all parts of my game.
“Obviously there’s a touch of disappointment because I got to 11 under. This is a really tough course to not have any bogeys. It would have been quite an achievement not to. (I’m) disappointed I did at the end, but I would have taken 68 at the start of the day.”
Choi, who lost at Evian last year on a sudden death play-off, is hopeful she can go one better this time.
“I feel really confident. Yeah, I think I can do it,” she said.
Miyazato was also upbeat after her round.
“I feel great. I mean, this is my sixth time at Evian, so I have been playing here for years. I’m very happy with the way things went today.”
A group of five players are on seven under, while world number one Lorena Ochoa is nine shots off the lead on level par and American teenager Michelle Wie one shot better off.
ALL THE SECOND ROUND SCORES
(Kor unless stated, par 72):
135 Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 69 66, Na Yeon Choi 67 68, Becky Brewerton (Gbr) 67 68
136 In-Kyung Kim 67 69
137 Paula Creamer (USA) 70 67, Song-Hee Kim 71 66, Yuko Mitsuka (Jpn) 71 66, Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 71 66, Karine Icher (Fra) 68 69
138 Meena Lee 69 69, Karrie Webb (Aus) 69 69, Cristie Kerr (USA) 70 68, Stacy Lewis (USA) 71 67
139 Se Ri Pak 72 67, Wendy Ward (USA) 68 71, Helen Alfredsson (Swe) 70 69
140 Anna Nordqvist (Swe) 70 70, Karen Stupples (Eng) 68 72, Morgan Pressel (USA) 70 70, Maria Hjorth (Swe) 70 70, Kristy McPherson (USA) 72 68
141 Ji-Young Oh 68 73, Jin Joo Hong 70 71, Pat Hurst (USA) 70 71, Brittany Lang (USA) 71 70
142 Lindsey Wright (Aus) 74 68, Hee Kyung Seo 71 71, Brittany Lincicome (USA) 71 71, Michele Redman (USA) 70 72, Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 71 71, Ji-Yai Shin 72 70, Shiho Oyama (Jpn) 74 68, Diana Luna (Ita) 70 72, Hee Young Park 73 69
143 Tania Elosegui (Spa) 73 70, Eun Hee Ji 73 70, Jee young Lee 71 72, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 72 71, Michelle null Wie (USA) 73 70, Natalie Gulbis (USA) 71 72, Mi-Jeong Jeon (Jpn) 70 73, Hwa seon Lee 69 74
144 Sun Young Yoo 71 73, Erina Hara (Jpn) 73 71, Hee-Won Han 73 71, Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 75 69, Candie Kung (Tpe) 70 74, Leta Lindley (USA) 72 72, Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 70 74, Momoko Ueda (Jpn) 69 75, Laura Davies (Eng) 71 73
145 Anja Monke (Ger) 71 74, Chie Arimura (Jpn) 73 72, Teresa Lu (Tpe) 73 72, Anna-Lise Caudal (Fra) 75 70, Amy Yang (USA) 74 71, In-Bee Park 72 73, Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 71 74, Jeong Jang 72 73
146 Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 74 72, Jane Park (USA) 75 71, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 74 72, Shi Hyun Ahn 75 71, Juli Inkster (USA) 74 72, Catriona Matthew (Sco) 74 72, Angela Stanford (USA) 75 71, Katherine Hull (Aus) 74 72
147 Caroline Rominger (Swi) 73 74, Mika Miyazato (Jpn) 71 76, Giulia Sergas (Ita) 75 72, Ya-Ni Tseng (Tpe) 75 72, Maria Verchenova (Rus) 73 74, Melissa Reid (Eng) 75 72
——————-The following players failed to make the cut—————
148 Eunjung Yi 71 77, Ji-Hee Lee (Jpn) 73 75, Nicole Castrale (USA) 76 72
149 Jimin Kang 75 74, Soo-Yun Kang 72 77, Shanshan Feng (Chn) 75 74
150 Stacy Prammanasudh (USA) 74 76, Louise Friberg (Swe) 74 76, Eun-A Lim 73 77
151 Christina Kim (USA) 75 76, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 75 76
152 Lotta Maria Wahlin (Swe) 76 76, Laura Diaz (USA) 74 78
153 Emma Zackrisson (Swe) 71 82
154 Martina Eberl (Ger) 81 73
155 Lisa Hall (Eng) 71 84
158 Minea Blomqvist (Fin) 75 83
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