{"id":1253147,"date":"2024-08-17T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=1253147"},"modified":"2024-08-18T19:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T19:04:29","slug":"isps-handa-womens-scottish-open-2024-r2-lauren-coughlin-moves-into-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/isps-handa-womens-scottish-open-2024-r2-lauren-coughlin-moves-into-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Coughlin moves into lead in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Coughlin finds herself on top of the leaderboard at the ISPS HANDA Women\u2019s Scottish Open at Dundonald Links. The American put together her second-straight bogey-free round, this time adding six birdies to the card to tie the lowest round of the week at 6-under. While she hit all 18 greens in regulation, just the second player to do so this week, Coughlin credited her putting as the reason why she\u2019s been able to keep her hot streak going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think a lot of it is putting. I started to get some confidence in the (spring) Asian Swing, and since then I&#8217;ve been able to keep it going. I&#8217;m starting to hit the ball extremely well, and yeah, I&#8217;m just starting to feel really good about my game and myself and trying to keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Condensed Rd. 3 | Women&#039;s Scottish Open\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3idG68tyUn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Overnight leader Megan Khang also stayed bogey-free but came up one stroke shy of tying the lead heading into Sunday&#8217;s final round. She turned in an even-par front nine still with closing distance of the leaders. On the back, she turned her game up a notch, putting together three birdies to position herself in contention to capture her second-career win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, definitely,\u201d Khang said about if it\u2019s tough to stay patient out on the course in these conditions. \u201cI mean, it&#8217;s so hard to say this is one of the nicer days\u2026 this is by far the best thing of the week. At least with my wave. So, it was a little bit different today. Obviously, the wind was still a big factor. But it was just nice to be out there, and out there, I was joking with Charley and Minjee, they were in the opposite wave, I was like, &#8220;Oh, this is nice today.&#8221; They just looked at me kind of funny. Overall, still having fun out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pair of Team Europe Solheim Cup hopefuls sit tied for third. Olympic silver medalist Esther Henseleit made a lot of noise on moving day, taking the solo-lead at one point thanks to five birdies and an eagle on the Aon Risk Reward Challenge hole, the par-5 No. 14. A bogey on No. 16 was her lone blemish of the round. England\u2019s Charley Hull turned in a relatively clean scorecard with one bogey on the front and four birdies to carry momentum into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Round one and two\u2019s leader, Minjee Lee ended her round even-par. The Aussie held a two-stroke lead over the field at one point on the front before recording three bogeys and a birdie on the back-nine to drop her into solo-fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/womens-olympic-golf-competition-paris-2024-r1-home-favourite-celine-boutier-takes-opening-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00e9line Boutier<\/a> found some positive ground recording her first under-par round of the week going 1-under, 71.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_link_1253142\" class=\"ct-div-block content-link_wrap\"><a class=\"ct-link content-link_image-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/dd-real-czech-masters-2024-r3-jesper-svensson-takes-54-hole-lead\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/isps-handa-wales-open2020-r2_long_thumb-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-link_image wp-post-image\" alt=\"D+D REAL Czech Masters 2024 R3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/isps-handa-wales-open2020-r2_long_thumb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/isps-handa-wales-open2020-r2_long_thumb-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/isps-handa-wales-open2020-r2_long_thumb-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"ct-div-block content-link_content\"><a class=\"ct-link\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/dd-real-czech-masters-2024-r3-jesper-svensson-takes-54-hole-lead\/\"><h5 class=\"ct-headline content-link_title\"><strong>Related:<\/strong> Jesper Svensson takes 54-hole lead<\/h5><\/a><div class=\"ct-text-block content-link_text\">D+D REAL Czech Masters R3<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>For the latest news in the golfing world, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/x.com\/GolfTodayUK&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718123050082000&amp;usg=AOvVaw21kBF4AVkP1f9mDUOnAp4_\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">X (Formally Twitter<\/span><\/strong>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISPS HANDA Women\u2019s Scottish Open R3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1253149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21,29],"tags":[5547,10064,3076,6818],"class_list":["post-1253147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-let-ladies","category-lpga","category-the_tours","tag-ladies-european-tour-let","tag-lauren-coughlin","tag-lpga-tour","tag-womens-scottish-open"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v23.4) - 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