Park, Liu share Founders Cup lead

LOS ANGELES: China’s Liu Yu made the most of her early morning start, firing an eight-under par 64 on Friday to join world number one Park Sung-hyun atop the leaderboard of the LPGA Founders Cup.Liu matched France’s Celine Boutier — a former teammate at Duke University — for low round of the tournament to seize a share of the halfway lead on 12-under par 132. South Korea’s Park posted her second straight 66 at Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix, Arizona.She and Liu were two strokes clear of a group of eight players on 10-under 134 that included overnight leader Boutier as well as former world number one Lydia Ko of New Zealand.Defending champion Park In-bee of South Korea headed a group of five players on 135. Liu was in the first group off the tee at 10, bouncing back from an opening bogey with three straight birdies. She followed another bogey at 14 with birdies at 15 and 18, and birdied five holes coming in.Park also teed off on 10 and after playing her first nine holes in two-under. She came alive over her final nine, with birdies at five of six holes that included a run of four straight from the first through the fourth. A bogey at the ninth prevented her from holding the solo 36-hole lead.Strom was eyeing a share of the lead with nine birdies and no bogeys through 17 holes before a double bogey at 18. Boutier, who fired eight birdies without a bogey on Thursday.

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