Icher ties course record, leads ShopRite LPGA

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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Karine Icher matched the Bay Course record with a 9-under 62 on Saturday to take the second-round lead in the ShopRite LPGA Classic.

The 37-year-old French player, winless on the tour, had nine birdies in a 13-hole stretch in a round that started on No. 10 at Stockton Seaview. She tied the record on the Donald Ross-designed course set by Laura Davies in 2005 and matched by Jimin Kang that year and Jennifer Johnson in 2014.

“I just try to play easy and not look at the scoreboard, because it doesn’t serve me. I know that,” Icher said after her lowest round on the LPGA Tour. “So, try to play shot after shot, and then it becomes like a game to make as many birdies as possible.”

Icher began her run on Nos. 14 and 15, added two more on 17 and 18, ran off four straight on Nos. 3-6, reached 12 under on the eighth and closed with a par. She had only 23 putts.

“I made a lot of second shots close to the hole, so [it] made some birdies easier to do,” Icher said. “The greens are difficult to read and to get the right speed with the right slope. So the closer you are, the easiest it is.

“It was a good round. I putted well. I had good wedges. So, quite happy.”

She chipped in on the par-4 sixth.

“I had to do, like, a rescue hybrid,” Icher said. “That one was …

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