Beth Coulter’s Augusta dream came to a premature end as she missed the cut at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
Coulter teed of her second round at Champions Retreat on the cut line at level-par but a disastrous run in the middle of her front nine where she dropped five shots in four holes cost her dearly and she will miss out on the final round being played at Augusta National.
The Kirkistown Castle star finished with a 77 to miss the one-under cut by six shots but she will get to play a practice round on the famed Masters course today.
Kiara Romero and Lottie Woad share the 36-hole lead on nine-under with three players sitting one stroke back of the lead entering Saturday’s final round of the 54-hole Championship.
Romero, the No. 5 amateur in the world, began her day with a birdie at the 10th hole and made the turn with a bogey-free three-under 33. A fourth birdie got her to four-under on the day, but a double bogey-bogey sequence at Nos. 4 and 5 brought her back to one-under. She finished birdie-birdie-birdie to climb back to nine-under.
“I feel like I have a lot more control over the mental side of it. I had a double and a bogey back-to-back on 4 and 5, so I didn’t let that get to me at all. I actually ended up with birdieing the last three holes. So I feel like that kind of shows the way my game has matured from last year.
“I think already being there once kind of lets me know what I’m preparing for and stuff. I’m definitely going to enjoy the moment being there, but just going to try to do my best to take notes of the course and see where are the good spots and create a good game plan for Saturday.
Woad, the defending champion and top-ranked amateur, followed her opening-round 65 with a two-under 70. At one point during the round she claimed a three-stroke lead, but a late bogey at the par-3 eighth hole dropped her into a share of the lead at nine-under.
“I knew I was going off earlier than Megha, so I just thought if I could maybe get a few birdies to start I could kind of show that I could catch her, and managed to do that.
“Yeah, I think I can definitely use last year, you know. I had the lead and then lost it. [Saturday] If that happens again, then I’d know that I’ve come back from there before. So I guess they’re positive memories.
“I think the pins were definitely a lot harder, so I had to adjust a little bit on that. Some holes you kind of had to play away from a little bit whereas yesterday I feel like I could really attack every pin. So I had to be a bit more patient today.”
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