Condensed Round 2 Highlights presented by SHI | 2026 Ford Championship presented by Wild Horse Pass

I am for Nelly just popped it up a little bit down the right off the team, but this one shouldn't be good. Leave her a good birdie chance as it gets up there close to the hole. Be able to be aggressive here. Plenty of green left of this flag, but this one just right of it. It sits down. It's going to leave her a good birdie chance. Let's check in with Wei Wei Chong who had a second place finish in her native China. Just a few weeks ago and she's bidding to get a spot in the US Women's Open with a good finish this week. Yeah, they definitely were, but Lottie does spend a lot with the wedges. It's got a helper here. Let's give it. Yeah, it's a great shot there from Lottie. Well worked out with the caddy there DT very tight lie there at the front of the green had to chip it because it was a little sandy area to go over. Couldn't play it along the ground. Very tidy and just gets a little bit of a kick off that left mound there. It's easy to do and needs to go some for the rest of the day. If she's going to be here for the weekend. That'll help. Yeah, I think after the scoring yesterday, players will feel they've just got to keep their foot on the accelerator. Not quite the numbers that we saw yesterday morning, but. She said she doesn't really change putters as much, and that's something that I just can't relate to because I would often play with more putters in one week. She has tees in her hair so. It's always a big thing for me to change putters, but Lydia likes to stick with what she has and this one's been working for him out. It is and with you, I think Aaron, you know, it was never you, was it mate? It was always the putter that was always. She has her eye on that team that you're going to be vice captain for. She would love to play in front of her home fans. I'm sure she would. Yeah, she's just gotten better each year. Yeah, she's fully exempt for the first time in her LPGA career this year. And over the 14th former Oregon Duck, Brianna Chacon graduated off the Epson Tour last year from Southern California. And in it goes, and so she moves. And that we go to the 9th and Yoju Kim. Yeah, just 132 yards for Yoju flag today. Tucked in the back left of this green. Yeah, difficult one to get to, but it does come in off that right hand side. Bloody has an 8 on in our hands for the shot should be perfect to land just a few yards on going on a little draw. Caught that perfectly. There's stuff landing, but I still think there should be a little hint of right to left. Chance OK Nelly from off the back of the green. 11 under yesterday we showed you one over today. Lydia second at 10. This is Bernard Escudero. Roberti at the 12th. Up and down in front of the green. No, she'll fancy this one. She will really fancy chipping this in. Just pop it up onto the green. Let it release. No one does it better. At 11 Lydia. Got a good line around. I think there is a bad line. This rough out here this week. Bit of a mound to negotiate on the green. Stopped very quickly. I was a bit lucky there. I think stops just came at the Monday MN Championship in her first. LPGA win flatter part of the green. Good look here. Was after it very quickly there. Yeah, I don't think that was the best stuff there, Tom. Lydia for Birdie at 11. Slow putt that one back up the hill. Even fooled Lydia. Yon Lee did not wait. John and the 13th her second to the front. She's gotta be careful with this detail. She's got a lot of nice spin from that roof. As stops just keeps saying there's not much rough it kind of sits up beautifully. So you get a lot of spin. This one into the players faces at the 11th. Popular spot today. Ridge so the back of the green is higher. Oh, I believe there. That was a great looking putt, wasn't it? Remember she took six weeks off, came back last week, lost. Down the stretch to heal. You can buy a shot at the Fort Net Founders Cup up in the Bay Area of San Francisco and now in contention again so. Nelly picking up where she left off after winning the season opener. Hello, I'm a ton of spin on it. Well judged there. Great gold shot. How about this third for Lydia Karen? Well, she's got a lofty club, but just gonna chase it down towards the hole. Right anytime she has a shot like that, I always feel like has a chance to go in the hole. Through 12 today now. I mean, I feel like 4 over compared to yesterday. John, no, she missed a couple of short ones. Gets the long one to drop at 14. And that moves her into the top 10 at 10 under par. Losing a little bit here to Kim. Trundle one up there onto the green. That's really well done from there. She gave a little bit of club to twirl as well, didn't she? She knew she liked it. Again, with the hybrid here from just under 200 yards, 199. As you're sure she walked up to get a look, so she has a good idea of what this is going to do. This one into the heart of the green if it's the right distance. That's one of those soft landings with a hybrid. Yeah. And her height as well. And her height helps as well. Unofficial stat. She's up there leading the tour in two putt birdies. But there is a hint of her in this window right now. Cady Paul Cormack liked it. Wow, it was a beautiful sound as soon as she hits it, wasn't it? You heard the fizz. Countries that are very hot. So they're used to it. Nellie, of course, lives in Florida. If she's practicing there in the summer, it's pretty uncomfortable. Chance for an eagle, and it goes. Nellie! An eagle three at the 12th. She's tied Lydia Ko at the top. Not much movement in it. Whoa! Yeah, big movement. That's why the rush. Wow. And so suddenly, Nellie Korda, with the long eagle putt at 12 and the three putt from Lydia. The team side of it, and even though she was the board number one as an amateur, she didn't act like it, apart from the leadership style that she had, which was very cool. Lydia's ball trying to hang on. Yeah, I was a little worried about that tee shot. I thought it was gonna go further left, but as I said, it's just fine. This 174 yard, the seven iron, and that wind is kind of swirling around. Tough to judge. Much longer club than we've seen. A lot of players hit into that. In the heart of it. Didn't need much more there for Nellie. Lexi Thompson in this group, you see. With Nellie, Lexi making her season debut after a career. And this is a player who's been out here a long time. As high as she's had it for 10 years. And I feel like she goes about her business quite quietly. She's a very stoic player. Just get her very emotional on the golf course, or even off the golf course. She's always up there. Makes it look easy sometimes. Yeah, and throws in a few wins here and there. Chin from Taiwan up at the seventh, par five, is to go eight under. So that's one under for the day. After shooting 65 yesterday. Just on an upslope, but from the rough. That's a great shot there from Lydia. We talk about short game week in and week out, and she's just got the most beautiful hands. First group out in the afternoon, the 21-year-old, grew up in Southern California, Su Bin Ju. Print pin pretty much identical to where it was yesterday. Ooh, that was a nice little bit of spin off that uphill lie, wasn't it? It's well played there. I'm pretty much straight uphill this putt. Good save there from Lydia. Tried to fly it in there quite a long way, all the way to the hole. She got a nice bit of spin on it though, Tom. It's well played there from Nellie. It has to be a good save if this one goes in. May move a little towards the water. Well, those feel as good as the birdies sometimes, don't they, Val? They certainly do. They almost feel better. That was a great up and down from where she was there. Here is one record holder, setter, watching another, Karen with Lydia. Oh, she's only got 103. Hopefully it gets some spin, but she's got a little bit of a hop. Hyoju, birdie at 15. Yeah, back down the green shouldn't be a lot of movement. And this one for Hyoju. She's got the pace right. Ooh, no, not quite. I thought the show was gonna drop. You usually do with Hyoju. Yeah, and I always feel it is difficult though when you're putting from a shadow to the sun. I always feel it's quite difficult to judge the pace and the read on that. Let's see if it stays on line. Looks good, yes. Oh, Nellie. Now she has been hot from long range today. Here is her boss, Anna Nordquist, having a great week. She is, she's going on really nicely. See, she's telling me she's busy doing all this Solheim concept. She's sneaking in a few practice sessions, isn't she? Last year's Rookie of the Year, and Miyu Yamashita really needs this. Five under par is the cut line at the moment, which would tie an all-time LPGA record, won a major championship, and another event late in the year. Here you go, 71 players at minus five. Not out of the question, it could go to six under, which would be an all-time LPGA record. I thought you just cracked it. I noticed that. Grant Boone, Nell Reed, we're watching Nellie trying to add to her lead at the 16th. It's 115 yards, looks really, really good. And it is, out at 18 for Eagle yesterday. Yeah, as you say, Mel, not the easiest putt to read has ended in a ridge. This is just one of the very best putters, statistically, in every way. Ko, after the 60 yesterday, her third at 17. Yeah, second shot just ran over the green, and this will pitch into that upslope. Looks like Lydia. I mean, it's just every time, isn't it? Three different majors. Nice week, this her third at the 12. Nearly got nicer. It's just firmer, and getting the ball close to the hole, and really judging it. Can I just slide downslope and get a huge hop, or you get into the slope and get not such a hop? And that, I think, was the kind of putt that she did not. Three putted at 13. This is 235 for Hyoju Kim, and she's gonna try and run this one out on the left side. This is classic Hyoju right here. Oh, it really is. With that lower ball flight, she can definitely run it up like you said, Tom. And that's a really nice second shot in there. Great luck, Eagle. Well, just a moment ago, at the 14th, Natasha Oon, she was making him from everywhere last week. San Francisco, and that one drops from the bunker for Birdie. It's a case of whether she's gonna try and pitch this short and run it in. It's drawing away from the flag. Needs that little hop to the right, and needs a bit of trundle. Didn't exactly get the hop to the right, but another great shot there from Nellie. Let's see if we can make a three. Has he got enough pace? No, she's left it short. She left it short. It's leaving Eagle putt short. That's a good putt for Birdie. And a nice back nine, as you see there. So that'll be for Birdie. For Lydia, this for Nellie to go back up by three. Oh my word, remember the 17th hole on Sunday? A three putt bogey really cost her against Hyoju. This was a shocker. I could have faced a little bit open there at impact from Nellie. I was right on line with that man. It just looked like it started right all day. Rose Zhang with her studies at Stanford behind her for the winter quarter. A little more freely here. Having a good week. Yeah, I was just about to say, probably a massive weight off her shoulders now. Now she can just totally focus on golf. She had a 10-page paper due on beer brewing. Did you read that? Just does that round that pin place with a few. Just drops a little bit of speed towards the hole. It will miss on the low side. Kind of snaps at the end. 65 is the lowest score of any of those who had a round to go. Got this off and over that mound. Then it's downhill, but she has got a phenomenal short game. Lottie. I mean, this is a player with the ultimate flair for the dramatic. On the upslope for Jojo Kim, 98 yards. And of course that upslope sends it up into the breeze. Yeah, well done there. This is Sony Lee for birdie at the par 5, 7th. Yeah. She willed that one in, didn't she? A little body Korean there. Willed that one in there. Yeah, no trouble with those sprinkler heads. It's just a case of where she's going to pitch it and how much it's going to release. Just pitched it in the fringe and didn't quite get the release. That's the kind of shot that you would tell 99% of amateurs to get the buttery up, of course. Megan Kang has a birdie putt at 7. She's right on the cut line. Back up the hill. Right to left movement on it. Great read there from Megan Kang. Yeah, OK, no problem there. That is her best 36 hole total to start a tournament in her decade on the LPGA Tour. Just a little left for Hyojin. Hyojin said Nellie has her favorite swing on tour and instead of having to watch on video, she got to watch it in person last week. And she's going to get to watch it for a third straight day tomorrow. At the par 4, 8th in this turn. Clearance from the cut line to 7 under, she goes. 5 under is the cut line. Looks like it's going to stay there. She had a pitch shot that lipped out at the 12th. Would have been for Hyojin.