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US Women’s Open second round leaderboard<\/b><\/p>\n
–4<\/b> A Lee (US), R Yin (Chn); -3<\/b> S-Y Kim (Kor), G Lopez (Mex), H Shibuno (Jap), H-J Yoo (Kor), I-G Chun (Kor), J Kupcho (US)<\/p>\n
Selected others: -2 <\/b>N Korda (US); Even <\/b>A Thitikul (Tha); +1<\/b> H Green (Aus); +3 <\/b>C Hull (Eng); +4 <\/b>L Woad (Eng); +6 <\/b>M Rhodes (Eng); +8 <\/b>B Law (Eng); +9<\/b> H-J Kim (US); +11 <\/b>N Ong (Eng)<\/p>\n
Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n Alison Lee and Ruoning Yin lead the US Women’s Open by a stroke on four-under-par at the midway point of the year’s second major.<\/p>\n Los Angeles native Lee, who missed all five majors in 2025 because she was on maternity leave, posted a three-under 68 at Riviera Country Club. <\/p>\n She is playing on the USGA’s deferred maternity leave exemption, a policy which gives a player who has earned a place in a USGA championship the option to defer her place.<\/p>\n China’s Yin carded a second successive 69 in a bogey-free round.<\/p>\n First-round leader Jennifer Kupcho<\/a> and Japan’s Hinako Shibuno, winner of the 2019 British Open, are among a group of six players in joint-third on three-under.<\/p>\n World number one Nelly Korda is one of four golfers at two-under, having shot up the leaderboard with a 67, the lowest round of the day.<\/p>\n Lee, whose 13-month-old son Levi watched at the course with her partner, has finished in the top 10 twice in 44 major appearances.<\/p>\n “I feel like I just did a really good job at grinding these last couple of days,” the 31-year-old said. <\/p>\n “The front nine [in the first round] – I mean, if you told me in the front nine I would be leading going into Saturday I would have thought you were crazy because I missed a bunch of fairways and I missed a bunch of greens.<\/p>\n “It’s so exciting. My first couple years on tour, [there was] probably a lot of pressure. I mean, my rookie year was 2015.<\/p>\n “Now to be able to play in front of friends and family is really special.”<\/p>\n Yin, whose sole major win came in 2023 at the PGA Championship, said: “I had a lot of stress today.<\/p>\n “It’s US Open, it’s meant to be tough. You can’t really have a stress-free moment on the course until it’s all done. <\/p>\n “I think the stress and the pressure, it’s also a privilege.”<\/p>\n After underperforming on the first day,<\/a> American Korda held her nerve to shorten the gap on the leaders.<\/p>\n “I just tried to have a really easygoing attitude today,” said Korda, who won the Chevron Championship in April.<\/a><\/p>\n “I was definitely going to leave it all out there and grind as much as I could, but I was not going to emphasize my mistakes too much and just kind of play relaxed golf. <\/p>\n “That’s when I play my best golf.”<\/p>\n England’s Bronte Law, Mimi Rhodes and teenager Nellie Ong<\/a> were among those to miss the cut alongside Swede Madelene Sagstrom, competing while seven months pregnant.<\/p>\n