PITTSFORD, N.Y. — After seeing her lead disappear, Yani Tseng fought her way back into a place where she’s been plenty comfortable this year.
Tseng overcame a double bogey on her ninth hole to shoot a 2-under-par 70 on Friday for a one-stroke lead over Pat Hurst after the second round of the LPGA Championship, the tour’s second major of the year.
Hurst had a 67. Morgan Pressel, Minea Blomqvist and Hee Young Park were 6-under after 69s.
Battling a torrential downpour then a steady drizzle for nearly half her first nine holes, Tseng followed her first-round-best 66 with a gritty performance that put her at 8-under overall. She won the LPGA State Farm Classic two weeks ago for her second LPGA Tour victory of the year, and could become the first player since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 to follow a regular tournament victory with a win in a major.
“I feel a little bit disappointed in my round, but I hung in there,” Tseng said. “I missed some short putts, but I still have the lead.”
Youngster shoots a 60
CROMWELL, Conn. — Nineteen-year-old UCLA star Patrick Cantlay shot a course-record 10-under 60 — the lowest PGA Tour round ever by an amateur — to take a four-stroke lead in the Travelers Championship.
Cantlay birdied the final two holes at TPC River Highlands to reach 13-under. After shooting a 67 in the rain-delayed first round, he had eight birdies and an eagle in the afternoon.
D.J. Trahan (62), Webb Simpson (65), Vaughn Taylor (66) and Alexandre Rocha (66) were 9-under along with Andres Romero, who completed only five holes in the second round before play was suspended because of darkness.
Footnotes.
Denver-area resident Mark Wiebe and John Huston shot 7-under 65s to share the lead after the first round of the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, N.Y.
• South Africa’s George Coetzee birdied four of his last six holes for his second straight 5-under 67 and a share of the lead with Henrik Stenson (70) in the BMW International Open in Munich.
