Filipino golfer Yuka Saso fired a second straight 64 to take a two-stoke halfway lead over former world number one Lydia Ko in the LPGA Lotte Championship on Thursday.
Saso, a 19-year-old seeking a first US LPGA title after two wins on the Japan LPGA, shared a one-stroke overnight lead with Brittany Altomare.
But she was six adrift when she teed off after New Zealand’s Ko stormed up the leaderboard with a sensational nine-under par 63 that featured nine birdies without a bogey.
Undaunted, Saso was two under through the first two holes at Kapolei Golf Club in Oahu, Hawaii.
After her lone bogey of the day at the fourth she birdied the fifth, then charged with four birdies i…
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