Nelly Korda, world number 1, new leader at Saint Andrews British Open

The number one in the world, the American Nelly Korda, showed her stripes this Friday to take the sole leadership of the British Open, the fifth and final ‘major’ of the women’s golf season and will be held until Sunday at the legendary ‘old. Scottish course’ from Saint Andrews.

Korda, looking for the third ‘best’ of his career, carded his second consecutive 68 (4 under par) to move into first place with a cumulative score of -8. On his second day card he highlighted four birdies without a mistake.

The 26-year-old American has a three-stroke lead over the duo consisting of the world number 2, her compatriot Lilia Vu, and Englishwoman Charley Hull, who was the first leader at Saint Andrews on Thursday.

Chinese Ruoning Yin is classified into four. And now in five there is a large group of players, among them the Olympic champion, the New Zealander Lydia Ko.

Among the Spaniards, the best was the Balearic Nuria Iturrioz, who put himself at +1 overall thanks to a return of 70 (-2) this Friday to slightly improve the 75 (+3) of the first day.

Behind her, newcomer Julia López, who is +2 after shooting 74 this Friday. Marta Martín was with +3, Carlota Ciganda with +4 and María Hernández, the only one who did not pass, said goodbye with +7.

Ana Peláez of Málaga is still out of the tournament, in her case disqualified this Friday for using a laser viewer to measure distances, something that is prohibited in this tournament and unknown to the player, as it can be used in almost other parts of the championships.

This was explained by the player himself on social networks after scoring 74 strokes (+2) in the second round of the tournament played on the legendary Scottish course of Saint Andrews. Ana Peláez is out of the tournament after making a par (72) on the first day and a 74 (+2) on the second.