New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has climbed into second spot during the second round of the LPGA's Queen City Championship.
Ko scorched the TPC River's Bend course, near Cincinnati, Ohio, with a second straight bogey-free round on Friday (Saturday NZ Time), a six-under 66 moving her to 11-under.
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Following her five-under 67 in the opening round on Thursday (Friday NZT), the defending Olympic and Women's Open champion continued her strong form, with an eagle and four birdies on day two.
The 27-year-old opened with a birdie at the sixth and eagle at the eighth holes, both par-fives, then picked up strokes at the 13th, 14th and 18th on the way home.
For the second straight day Ko hit 13-of-14 fairways and was near-perfect with her approaches, with 17-of-18 greens in regulation. If a few more putts fell, she could be well in front.
Ko has finished in the top-10 of her last three LPGA tournaments, with her gold medal-winning effort at the Paris Olympics in between.
Across The Pond, it appears Kiwi golfers Ryan Fox and Daniel Hillier will both make the 36-hole cut at the DP World Tour's BMW PGA Championship.
Fox and Hillier both carded a two-under 70 in the second round at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England on Friday (Saturday NZT), just staying above the projected cut-line at two-under when play was suspended.
With 15 golfers, mostly all well below the cut-line, still to complete their second rounds, Fox, the tournament's defending champion, sits in a tie for 41st at three-under and Hillier in a share of 55th at two-under.
Fox's round included an eagle at the par-four 16th, holing his wedge shot from the fairway from 130 yards out, along with birdies at the third and fourth and bogeys at the 10th and 15th.
Hillier made five birdies, a bogey and double-bogey at the par-four 15th after hitting his third shot from the greenside bunker well over the green.
Meanwhile, Canterbury's Momoka Kobori has missed the cut at the Ladies European Tour's La Sella Open in Spain by one shot.
Kobori carded a two-over 74 in the second round at the La Sella Golf Resort on Friday (Saturday NZT) to drop into a tie for 63rd at one-over.
Back-to-back-to-back bogeys at the 13th, 14th, 15th killed off her chances of playing the weekend, after she had earlier had made birdies at the fourth, fifth and 12th holes, to go with bogeys at the third and ninth.
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