India’s Amandeep Drall shot one-under 71, which included an eagle, to remain in contention for tied ninth spot at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open golf tournament here.
Amandeep was six-under and lying three shots behind the leader, Liz Young of England.
Meanwhile, Vani Kapoor and Diksha Dagar are looking for a top-10 finish in the Ladies European Tour event as they were T-17 after 36 holes. Tvesa Malik gained in confidence with a two-under 70 that saw her make the cut very comfortably. At two-under for 36 holes, she is T-25. But Ridhima Dilawari (76-72) and Neha Tripathi (77-74) were sure to miss the cut, which is likely to fall at one-over.
Amandeep, who had a superb first round of five-under 67, started the second round with nine straight pars on the front nine. She then landed an eagle on the Par-5 10th but later dropped a shot on the par-4 13th and parred the rest for 71.
Diksha looked set for a solid second round and rose as high as sixth as she was three-under for the second round after 10th. An unfortunate triple bogey on the Par-4 14th saw her lose a lot of ground, but a birdie on the 15th was little compensation as she ended with 71. At three-under she is T-17.
Vani had three birdies against two bogeys in her 71 and Tvesa was bogey free and two-under until she came to the Par-5 16th, where she dropped a shot. She managed to get that back and was two-under for the day and two-under for the tournament.
England’s Young fired a round of 67 (-5) on day two at Golfpark Holzhäusern.
Round one was completed only on Friday morning and it also led to the second round being left incomplete on Friday evening. Five groups still need to complete their second round. However, it was an excellent day for Young, who followed up her first round of 68 (-4), with a bogey-free 67 to sit atop the leader board on nine-under-par.
Behind the leader, there are four players one shot further back with Austria’s Christine Wolf, England’s Rosie Davies, Sweden’s Linn Grant and France’s Charlotte Liautier on eight-under-par.
Three players share the sixth place with Belgium’s Manon De Roey, France’s Anne-Lise Caudal and Germany’s Alexandra Försterling, who still has two holes left to complete, on seven-under-par.
Amandeep is tied for ninth alongside Finland’s Karina Kukkonen, who has three holes to play.
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