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Wu birdied her last three holes to card a bogey free 7-under 65 and take a two-shot lead into the weekend
Chinese Taipei’s Chun-Wei Wu claimed sole possession of the top spot at the halfway stage of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) championship after a stunning finale to her second round.
Playing in the last flight of the day, the 19-year-old birdied her final three holes to add a bogey-free 7-under 65 to her opening 5-under 67 at Siam Country Club’s Waterside Course in Thailand.
Her 36-hole aggregate of 12-under 132 bettered the WAAP record for the previous best two-round total of 134 set by Thai Natthakritta Vongtaveelap at Abu Dhabi Golf Club in 2021.
It also enabled Wu to open up a two-shot lead from Japan’s Hinano Muguruma heading into the weekend in the region’s most prestigious women’s amateur championship.
Two strokes further back in joint third are Thai Pimpisa Rubrong and Korean Hyosong Lee, with Indian Avani Prashanth and China’s Zhang Yahui in equal fifth on 137.
Among four players tied for seventh on 138 is Korean Hyojin Yang, who had the distinction of matching Wu for the best round of the championship to date, her 7-under 65 highlighted by an eagle-three at No. 18, where she holed her wedge approach for an inward 31.
Defending champion Eila Galitsky’s hopes of becoming the first two-time winner of the WAAP suffered a setback. Joint first round leader with fellow-Thai Navaporn Soontreeyapas and Wu, Galitsky stuttered to a second-round 75, leaving her in a share of 24th place, 10 shots off the pace.
For much of the afternoon, it looked like Muguruma would be the pace-setter heading into the weekend. But Wu had other ideas. She birdied the short seventh – her 16th of the day – to draw level at the top and then moved to the summit when she picked up another shot at the long eighth.
As her 18-footer for birdie on the ninth green disappeared below ground, a huge smile broke out across Wu’s face after what she described as the round of her life.
“That’s the lowest score I’ve ever had. I’m very happy with my putting … it was very good today,” said Wu, a close friend of Tiffany Huang Ting-hsuan, the Chinese Taipei player who won the WAAP when it was first staged at Siam Country Club in 2022.
Wu is now setting her sights on emulating her compatriot, who was unable to be in Thailand this week due to college commitments in the United States.
But she can expect tough competition from 21-year-old Muguruma, 22nd in the WAGR, the second highest-ranked player in the field, behind only Korean Kim Min-sol (fourth).
Smiling her way around the sun-baked Waterside Course, Muguruma started and closed her second round with runs of three successive birdies.
| Place | Player | Location | Pts | Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | , Chinese Taipei | 1500 | 67-65-66-72=270 | |
| 2 | , Korea | 1000 | 70-66-67-69=272 | |
| 3 | , Thailand | 700 | 70-68-69-66=273 | |
| 4 | , Thailand | 700 | 68-68-68-70=274 | |
| T5 | , Korea | 700 | 70-69-68-68=275 |

The Asia Pacific Amateur Women's Golf Tournament is a premier amateur golf event that brings together the top female golfers from across the Asia-Pacific region. Established to promote and elevate the talent of women golfers in the area, the tourname...

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