The Scotsman Golf Show

Martin Dempster reports from the second day of the Women’s Open.

Transcript

00:00Hello it's Martin Dempster the Scotsman Golf Correspondent here coming to you from the old

00:07course at St Andrews just as the second round of the AIG Women's Open has been completed. No doubt

00:17who the star of the show is at the halfway stage and that's the world number one Nellie Corder.

00:24After two 68s the American sits on eight under par in the season's final major and that's going

00:34to give her a three shot lead heading into the final two rounds on the old course. The American

00:42she's won six times already this season. She had sort of gone off the boil a little bit in the last

00:49couple of months but so far she's been very impressive here at the the Fife venue. She put

00:58a new putter in the bag this week, a tailor-made spider and that certainly proved to be a worthwhile

01:06move because she's really been rolling in the putts including a couple on the 17th, the notorious

01:16road hole which she's birdied on both days. Leading the chase heading into the weekend the

01:24defending champion Lillia Vu, she's become the first player since 2011 to win this event back

01:33to back. She's three shots back as is Charlie Hill the runner-up at Walton Heath last year and the

01:42English player would certainly be a popular winner here on British soil. Others in contention

01:49include the Olympic champion Lydia Coe and also Ashley Buhai the South African who won at Muirfield

01:56in 2022. No Scots in action over the weekend unfortunately. On her final appearance in the

02:08event, 2009 winner Katrina Matthew, she missed out by three shots as the cut fell at four over

02:16par. Katrina played really well today, she was two over par which was an excellent effort in

02:24challenging conditions. She actually finished with a birdie, her only birdie over the two rounds. She

02:32said she couldn't have scripted it any better to sign off her career and boy that's been a great

02:38career in this event. Gemma Dryborough, she also missed out, she finished on 10 over par and now

02:45the Aberdonian faces an anxious wait to find out if she'll make Suzanne Petterson's Solheim Cup

02:52team which will be finalised on Monday. To keep up to date with everything about the AIG Women's

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