Watch China's Xi Yu Lin make a surprising hole-in-one at the Honda LPGA Thailand
It’s not how, it’s how many.
For China’s Xi Yu Lin, the golf cliché seemed applicable during the second round at the Honda LPGA Thailand tournament. On the 179-yard par-3 16th at Siam Country Club, the 20-year-old appeared to have hit too much club with her 22-degree hybrid as her tee shot landed roughly 35 feet past the hole.
The saving grace was that the ball caught a slope behind the green and slowly began trickling toward the hole. Lin saw this starting to happen, and figured she had gotten a break. Little did she know just how big it turned out.
Defending champ Amy Yang leads Honda LPGA Thailand by a shot
Defending champion Amy Yang carded a 3-under 69 to lead by one halfway through the Honda LPGA Thailand on Friday.
Yang trailed first-round leader Lexi Thompson by two before teeing off at Siam Country Club, then had consecutive bogeys on Nos. 5 and 6, but rallied with four birdies, including on the par-3 12th.
Lexi Thompson wasn’t just long off the tee in Thailand (289.1 yards average), but was finding fairways as well as she hit 44 of 56 (78.6 percent) with her Cobra King LTD driver. The King LTD features a “space port” in the sole of the club that not only allows golfers to look inside the head, but saves weight that can be positioned in the club to allow for center of gravity in line with the center of the clubface for better energy transfer at impact.