Top-ranked Yani Tseng posted a 3-and-1 win
over American Katie Futcher, and No. 2 ranked Na Yeon Choi was a 3-and-2 winner
of fellow South Korean Jenny Shin.
The weekend will be double rounds. The
third round and the quarterfinals will be played Saturday, and the Titleist 910 D3 Driver semifinals
and championship on Sunday.
The 27-year-old Lewis has more pressing
problems. Her third-round opponent will be Sun Young Yoo, who won this event
two years ago and the tour's first major earlier this year, the Kraft Nabisco
Championship.
American Angela Stanford, the No. 12 seed
and the runner-up to Yoo two years ago, was impressive with a front-running
4-and-3 win over Eun-Hee Ji of South
Korea . Stanford will play Hurst in the third round.
Cristie Kerr, last year's runner-up and the
No. 5 ranked player, lost Friday along with No. 7 Jiyai Shin and No. 14 Karrie
Webb. Eleven of the 20 seeded players in the 64-woman field have been
eliminated.
So is Lewis. She has a win and four other
top-10 finishes with earnings of $436,746, fourth best on tour.
"That's the reason I go out and play
every day," Lewis said. "I think I've probably been playing as good,
if not better, than a lot of the American players and I haven't got noticed
yet, and that's what drives me every day to go out and get better and to keep
playing and to keep winning matches. I think if you're up on that leaderboard
enough and you Titleist 712 AP1 Irons win enough golf tournaments, people will start to take notice.
Lewis never gave Gal a chance. The former Arkansas star played 15
holes in 5-under par. She made birdies of 4, 10 and 30 feet on the first three
holes and won the fourth when Gal bogeyed. The German moved within 2-down after
11 holes, but Lewis birdied the 13th and 14th to open daylight again.
Tseng, who has won three events this year,
was down 1 after seven holes, but she won four holes between Nos. 11 and 17 to
move on.
Kerr saved par from a greenside bunker at
No. 18 to extend the match, but she hit her second shot into a lateral hazard
on the first playoff hole and had to take a drop. Hurst opened the door a little by missing the
green and knocking her third about 4 feet past the cup. However, Kerr, winless
since 2010, missed her bogey putt and conceded the match.
Jodi Ewart of England , who knocked out Pettersen
in the opening round, sent another Scandanavian to the sideline with a 3-and-1
win over veteran Sophie Gustafson. The 24-year-old will face Azahara Munoz. The
Spaniard beat Webb 2 and 1.
The tournament has become a discount golf clubs minefield for
the tour's marquee players. Defending champion Suzann Pettersen, No. 4 ranked
Ai Miyazato and American stars Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome and Michelle
Wie went down in the opening round.
"I don't think Suzann losing really
opens things up for me," said Lewis, who was in Pettersen's bracket.
"I think I've got a lot of tough matches still ahead of me, and there were
a lot of upsets yesterday, so it just shows what match play is. Anything could
happen on any given day."
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