Wellington, Feb 13: One birdie against two bogeys ensured Guntas Sandhu entered the weekend action at the Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific (WAAP) as two of the four Indians made the halfway cut at Royal Wellington.
Guntas, who shot 71 in the first round carded 73 in rainy conditions in the second and at even par for two days she was impressive and in Top-20 a Tied-19.
The only other Indian to make the cut was Ananyaa Sood (74-75) and she was T-43.
Zara Anand (79-79) and Jia Kataria (81-81) missed the cut.
Yunseo Yang wrote her name into the record books as she swept into a three-stroke lead at the halfway stage.
Defying heavy rain showers and warm, humid conditions, the 18-year-old Korean followed up an opening-day 64 with a five-under-par 67 at Royal Wellington.
Yang’s 36-hole total of 13-under 131 bettered by one the previous best two-round score at the WAAP, shared by Chinese Taipei’s Chun-wei Wu in 2023 and Korean Sumin Hong last year.
Bidding to become the first Korean winner of the region’s pre-eminent women’s amateur championship, Yang, 44th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, finds herself in a commanding position heading into Saturday’s penultimate round.
Her closest pursuers are fellow-Korean Gyu Been Kim and Rianne Malixi, the 2024 US Women’s Amateur winner from the Philippines.
On a day that saw the powerful Korean contingent flex their muscles, Sumin Hong shot a 68 for a share of fourth place with Japan’s Ai Goto on 137, while Soomin Oh, runner-up last year, also returned a 68 that elevated her into joint sixth place on 138 alongside Australian Jazy Roberts.
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