Maguire and Meadow safely through to weekend at Evian Championship

Ireland's Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow are both safely through to the weekend at the Evian Championship in Paris, the fourth of the year's five Majors in ladies' golf.

Meadow bettered her opening round of level-par 71 by two strokes, to sit two-under-par overall, good enough to keep her inside the top 35 with plenty of players still out on course during the second day's play.

Maguire, for her part, had to work slightly harder to keep her challenge going. She opened with a one-under-par 70 on Thursday but could only manage an even-par 71 on her second round to sit one shot behind her countrywoman.

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Unsurprisingly, American star Nelly Korda is setting a furious pace atop the leaderboard. She added a tidy 67 to her spectacular opening 64 to head into Saturday on 11-under-par, overall.

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