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Miyu Yamashita of Japan prolonged her result in 5 pictures on the CPKC Women’s Open on Friday in Edmonton.
Yamashita adopted her opening-round 62 with a 6-under 64 and can enter the weekend at 14-under 126 at Royal Mayfair Golf Club. Her nearest competitors comes from South Korea’s Soo Bin Joo (63), Japan’s Yuri Yoshida (66) and Kiara Romero (67) tied at 9 below.
Yamashita, 25, is trying to find her fourth LPGA Tour title in a span of lower than 13 months. After she took the 2025 AIG Women’s Open as a rookie, she has added two extra victories, together with the Meijer LPGA Classic this previous June.
After a birdie-bogey begin to her day, she piled up six birdies between Nos. 4-12 to race in entrance.
‘Rather than deal with the rating, I’m desirous about how I could make birdies,’ Yamashita stated afterward. ‘So I’ll attempt to preserve a great rhythm within the ultimate spherical.’
Joo’s bogey-free 63 was the spherical of the day. She hit 15 of 18 greens in regulation and wanted simply 26 putts to get across the course. But she is below no pretense that the match will stay a birdie fest.
‘The solar is popping out, the winds are selecting up this afternoon, so I believe it would get firmer and quicker throughout the weekend, and looking out ahead to it,’ Joo stated.
The story of the week could also be Romero, a longtime beginner and school star who’s making her skilled debut. She began off with a bang on Thursday with a spherical of 64 and adopted that within the second spherical with 5 birdies and two bogeys.
‘Right now I’m simply actually specializing in having enjoyable and simply having fun with — I imply, it is my first match as an expert, so I believe it may be robust, the transition from school golf professional golf, so simply to make it as little pressuring for me as attainable,’ Romero stated. ‘I simply need to go on the market and simply attempt to take this as a studying expertise and attempt to simply floor my ft on the market.’
Ruoning Yin of China (67) and Nasa Hataoka of Japan (69) are tied for fifth at 8 below.
The low Canadian by two rounds is Anna Huang, who shot 68 Friday and is tied at 7 below alongside Laney Frye (67), Gina Kim (67), Malaysia’s Natasha Oon (65) and Mao Saigo of Japan (67). Defending champion Brooke M. Henderson of Canada is additional behind at 5 below following a spherical of 68.
‘It’s so superb and such a cool alternative to have the ability to play in entrance of all of the Canadian followers. They simply present me a lot love and assist 12 months after 12 months. … It solely actually occurs every year, and it is simply such a novel factor that not plenty of gamers get to expertise. I’m undoubtedly making an attempt to profit from it.’
–Field Level Media