Peiyun Chien fires 64, jumps forward by 4 pictures in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI — Peiyun Chien of Taiwan holed out for eagle on the sixth gap and performed bogey-free on Friday for an 8-under 64 to construct a 4-shot lead within the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship as she tries for her first LPGA Tour victory.

Chien has received 3 times on what’s now the Epson Tour and twice on the Taiwan LPGA.

“I actually wish to play effectively in America and return to Asia, play Asian Video games for my nation” stated Chien, who reached the midway mark at 14-under 130 at Kenwood Nation Membership.

Ruoning Yin of China, who captured her first main this summer time on the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship, additionally performed bogey-free for a 66 that left her 4 pictures behind with Morgane Metraux of Switzerland (66) and 18-hole chief Ruixin Liu of China (69).

Yin has a mathematical probability of reaching No. 1 within the girls’s world rating, which might permit her to affix Shanshan Feng as the one gamers from China to be atop the rating.

Chien attributed her nice spherical to her placing. She stated she prefers to swap out putters each week and is proud that she has stored this one in play for at the very least a month. It is a good weapon to have on the Kendale course, which has agency and quick greens from dry climate.

Liu additionally was very good with the putter, and he or she wanted to be. She did not hit the ball in addition to she did Thursday when she shot a 65, however she holed loads of putts for par to remain shut and completed her spherical with a shot out of the green bunker to 12 ft for birdie.

Former U.S. Ladies’s Open champion Yuka Saso (66) and Charley Hull of England (68) had been 5 pictures behind.

Rose Zhang had a 68 and was eight pictures again.

Lexi Thompson had motive to have a good time — she will get to play golf for 2 extra days. Thompson made eight birdies to offset some errors in her spherical of 68. That allowed her to make the lower for the primary time for the reason that Ladies’s PGA Championship, and it was her lowest rating of the yr in particular person stroke play.

That is Thompson’s closing occasion earlier than the Solheim Cup in Spain on Sept. 22-24. U.S. Ladies’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz had one other 72 and missed the lower, together with fellow U.S. Solheim Cup participant Cheyenne Knight, who had a 73.

Linn Grant of Sweden shot 71 and missed the lower forward of her Solheim Cup debut.

Perrine Delacour had an opportunity to be nearer along with her eight birdies. What held her again was opening with a double bogey, after which hitting into the hazard and making a double bogey on the 18th gap. All the things else within the center was sharp.

“I do not even know what number of birdies I made all day,” Delacour stated. “As a golfer, you do not wish to begin with a double and end with a double. That is why I am form of little upset of my spherical. However on the finish of the day it is nonetheless underneath par. I am nonetheless close to the highest of the leaderboard, so I nonetheless obtained an opportunity for the weekend.”