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Feng grabs halfway lead at Dubai Masters
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LPGA Tour star and defending champion Feng Shanshan of China lived up to her billing as the pre-tournament favorite as she took a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Ladies Masters yesterday.
The highest ranked player in the field, world No. 6 Feng added a second successive bogey-free round of 5-under-par 67 to move to 10 under after 36 holes.
She has already won the tournament twice — in 2012 and 2014 — and is bidding to become the first three-time winner in the season-ending championship of the Ladies European Tour.
Two shots behind Feng and in solo second place was British 52-year-old legend Laura Davies, who shot a second straight round of 68 despite playing through pain with a torn tendon in her left ankle.
Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum (68), the 2013 champion, was tied third at 5 under along with Swede Caroline Hedwall (68).
Feng, who started on the relatively easier back nine of the Majlis course, could not get her first birdie in the first five holes that included two par-5s. But she made back-to-back birdies on the 15th and 16th holes, and then picked up three shots coming in.
But the Chinese revealed she was battling a strain in her neck, one which was serious enough to call for medical help on the 17th hole, her eighth.
“It was a little problem with the neck and the upper back. So I called for the physio. She came on the 17th hole, worked on it a little bit and it did not really bother the swing,” Feng said. “I think my ball-striking was not bad. I was leaving the balls a little bit shorter after I saw the physio. But I wasn’t far away off the green. So I could still make the two putts.”
The French duo of Ariane Provot (67) and Jade Schaeffer (71) were tied fifth at 4 under.
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