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Joanna Klatten was 3rd at -4 after sixteen holes…

The second Major of the season, which is played this week at Olympia Fields, in the suburbs of Chicago, is not tender with the players. Difficult weather conditions and play stoppages due to rain and wind, will have marked the first two laps. Joanna Klatten, the best of the five French women in the running, will be able to testify. Stopped at 19:01 p.m. Thursday evening when she was two holes from the end of her first course, Joanna was on the verge of signing a small feat. The Parisian was -4 and was 3rd provisional one stroke from Korean Chella Choi and Amy Yang (-5). The resumption of Friday morning was not simple with a double entry day bogey on par 3 of 17 which made it move back to -2. This before continuing directly on his second round…

Ryu, Ko and Thompson still in ambush

After a good management of the outward leg of this second round (part of hole No. 10), Joanna returned to the lead with a provisional score of -3. But another double bogey for the day, on hole 1, that is to say, from the start of his return, go and temper his success. In the end, the Frenchwoman finished 46th at +1, with two first cards of 69 and 74. Eight shots from the co-leaders after two rounds, the American Danielle Kang and the South Korean Sei Young Kim, tied at - 7 after signing the same cards of 69 and 66. Two players who are in the crosshairs of the best in the world this weekend. So Yeon Ryu, 8th to -5, Lydia Ko, 12th to -4, and Lexi Thompson, 15th to -3, are indeed in ambush… Only Ariya Jutanugarn, eliminated prematurely (77 and 68, +3 total) is missing 'call.

Two Blue in the cut, better than in 2016

Besides Joanna Klatten, another of the five French women in the running, Karine Icher, managed to be in the cut. It was very late for the player from Châteauroux, 62nd to +2 on Friday evening thanks to her two cards of 71 and 73. Perrine Delacour, back at +3, will not have this chance. Ditto for Céline Herbin, +4 after two rounds, and for Gwladys Nocera, who signs two difficult cards of 83 and 77 for a total of +18. The track record of the Tricolores is however higher than that of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship of 2016, at Sahalee CC., Near Seattle. Only Céline Herbin was from the weekend. We remember that Joanna Klatten, devastated by acute low back pain, was forced to withdraw just before planting her first tee. The 2017 edition is already more successful!

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