Lindblad goes against Sweden in the Women’s Amateur Team Championships
Lindblad goes against Sweden in the Women’s Amateur Team Championships
Sweden’s Ingrid Lindblad, who is No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking ® , shot eight birdies in her first 12 holes to post a 6-under 65 at Le Golf National to take her team into the lead through Round 2 of the 29 Ladies Amateur Team Championship. The Swedes also used a 3-under 68 from Meja Ortengren for a day’s total of 8-under to lead Germany and the opening-day leader the United States by two strokes at 9-under 277.
Lindblad, who broke the record 65 as the lowest score by an amateur in the first round at the 2022 US Women’s Open, wobbled easily down the stretch with a bogey at the 15th and a double bogey at the 18th but her 65 tied for third best the second round in Espirito Santo’s history and is the best round in the championship.
“A round like this means a lot to the team, even though it could have been lower,” said Lindblad, the 2021 European Amateur champion who plays golf at Louisiana State University. “We’ve talked about playing aggressively, which we tried to do today. A low round like this, especially today, puts us at the top of the leaderboard and from there we just have to keep going.”
At the Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche, the US, the defending champions from 2018, were led by Rachel Kuehn’s 2-under 70 and an even-par 72 from world No. 1 Rose Zhang, who were teammates in the US’s last two Curtis wins The cup match.
“Sweden has a great team,” said Kuehn, who played for the Dominican Republic with his mother in 2018. “There are a lot of teams that can go out and play well. We can’t be caught on our heels, but we haven’t shot ourselves out of it. We’re looking to make a move tomorrow and wrap it up on Saturday, but it’s going to take good golf.”
Germany got a shot at the USA on the strength of another steady and consistent day from Celina Rosa Sattelkau who shot a 2-under 70 and Alexandra Fosterling contributed with a 71.
“We went out from the start and were patient and hit all the good shots we talked about,” said German captain Pia Gassner, who played in the 2008 and 2010 WWATC.
Japan moved up nine places on the leaderboard to fourth at 281 on the strength of a 4-under 67 from 2022 US Ladies Amateur champion Saki Baba. Her teammate Mizuki Hashimoto shot a 1-under 71.
Chinese Taipei was fifth; Spain and Switzerland shared sixth place, with the Republic of Korea moving up nine places to eighth.
What comes next:
Round 3 begins Friday at 8 a.m. with starts on both courses. The teams with leading points will play at Le Golf National and the other half of the draw will play at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche
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IF Women’s World Amateur Team
In 1958, the United States Golf Association asked The R&A to join them in sponsoring a worldwide event for amateur golf teams played twice a year in non-Walker Cup years. Between 35 and 40 nations were represented at the first meeting, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented the trophy that bears his name. The committee for the event would be called the World Amateur Golf Council and is now the International Golf Federation. Teams of four players from each country competed over 72 holes with the top three scores from each round counting. The first competition was held between 29 nations at St Andrews, where Australia beat the USA in a play-off. In 2002, the format was changed to teams of three with the leading two points counting.
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