The Indian challenge at the Dutch Ladies Open came to an early end as Vani Kapoor, Tvesa Malik and Ridhima Dilawari missed the 36-hole cut in the last Ladies European Tour event ahead of the Paris Olympics. (More Sports News)
Vani, who had a good start in the first round with 2-under 70, dropped to 4-over 76 and missed the cut by one shot. Vani finished at 2-over and the cut was 1-ov💙er.
Tvesa (73-80) and Ridhima (73-75) too failed to ma♎ke the cu🅷t.
The next LET event will be the Women’s Scottish Open, a week after the Olympic𒈔s, and then comes the AIG Women’s Open in the last week of August.
Swiss star Kim Metraux followed up a fantastic fir🔥st day with a 5-under 67 to extend her advantage at the top of the leaderboard.
Metraux, who is searching for her maiden LET victory, led overnight after an opening round of 65 (-7) at Hilversumsche Golf Club.
Starting her second🍸 round on the 10th tee, Metraux rolled in a birdie on 10 before back-to-back bogeys on 11 and 12.
But the 29-year-old s🗹oon found her rhythm again with birdies on hol🃏es 13 and 17 to make the turn in one-under.
Metraux rolled in fꦚour birdies on her back nine for her round of five-under and to lead by five strokes with a total of 12-under-par.
Metraux is the older sister of two-time LET winner Morgane, who won th🌠e Jabra Ladies Open earlier this year.
England’s Liz Young and Singapore’s Shannon Tan are both in a share of second place on seven-unde♚r-par after 36 holes.
Young, who won the 2022 VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open, produced rounds of 💫68-69 on the first two days in the Netherl🦹ands.
Germany’s Laura Funfstuck a🔴nd Czechia’s Jana Melichova are one shot further back in a tie for fourth plac🌃e on six-under-par.
The cꦍut fell at +1 with 68 players making it through to the final day of competition.
