Lacoste Ladies French Open 2015 - 25/09/2015 Emily Kristine Pedersen (DNK) Credit: ASO / P.Ballet

The leaderboard of the Lacoste Ladies Open de France suffered this Friday from a small Viking invasion! Contested like the day before under a bright sun, the second round saw three Danes integrate the top 5, and challenge the supremacy established by the French the day before. At just 19, Emily Kristine Pedersen had the best score of her young career on the Ladies European Tour, a magnificent 64 (-6) with six birdies and an eagle. “I'm very happy with this score, especially after I started the game,” she said, referring to her bogeys at 1 and 3. “I would have signed for any score under par! "

Pro since the start of the season, the former world number 4 among amateurs has received an invitation to play his first Lacoste Ladies Open de France, his category on the LET does not allow him to enter the field directly. “It gave me extra motivation to play well, to prove that I had my place here,” she says. Pedersen, whose main achievement is a second place at the Deloitte Ladies Open in the Netherlands in June, takes in his wake his compatriots Malene Jorgensen and Nicole Broch Larsen. The first played 67 (-3) and is third at -4 overall, while the second played 69 (-1) and is fifth at -3.

Faced with this Danish wave, the French resistance is organized. Céline Herbin returned a strong card of 68 (-2) which allows her to retain her second place, with a total of -6. In the par for the day after 14 holes (two birdies, two bogeys) the Normande had an eventful end to the game, with an eagle at 15 immediately followed by a double bogey! “I had a very good reaction after that: we had to do them, these two birdies! At 17 I put myself given, and at 18 I enter three meters. It was a great way to end my game. The current 65th European player, who plays mainly this season on the Symetra Tour, the second American division, will start in the last game on Saturday alongside Pedersen.

The other Franco-Danish duel will oppose Jorgensen, therefore, to Gwladys Nocera. Leader after the first round, the Auvergnate had a more complicated day with three bogeys on his first ten holes, but managed to save the furniture thanks to two birdies at 15 and 18 for a card of 71 (+1). “I really didn't think I would be third after the day I wasted so I take! Five shots to catch up over two days is doable, but I'll have to play better than that, ”she analyzes without concession.

Finally, the big names in European women's golf are on the lookout behind the two Danes and the two French women. Among the four players who share fifth place with Nicole Broch Larsen, we find the English Charley Hull and the Spaniard AzaharaMuñoz, still in the race for the treble. For her part, the American Cristie Kerr, who played 67 (-3) to climb to 27th position at +1, will also be in the game this weekend. A total of 52 players, including twelve French out of the nineteen entered, crossed the cut set at +4.

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