Stephanie Meadow squeezes inside the cut at Lotte Championship

Stephanie Medow is nine shots off the lead at the halfway point of the LPGA Lotte Championship in Hawaii.

The Jordanstown native carded a two-under par round of 70 to move to one-over par and a tie for 46th place following a first round 75.

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The cut line was three-over par.

South Korea's Yu Jin Sung and Natthakrita Vongtaveelap of Thailand lead the way on eight-under par.

Vongtaveelap is in just her second LPGA tournament after finishing second at the Honda LPGA Thailand in February.

The 20-year-old was one-over par for the day at the turn on Thursday, but she had three birdies on a bogey-free back nine.

"(The) total result is good," Vongtaveelap said. "My putter today (was) not really good, but OK."

She said she didn't practice putting before the round.

"I would blame myself," Vongtaveelap added.

Like Vongtaveelap, Sung got her round going on the back nine. After making eight pars and one birdie on the front nine, Sung ran off four birdies in a six-hole stretch to start the back nine. She made her lone bogey of the day at the par-4 16th hole, then closed with two pars.

"It was really windy day today and then just physical condition-wise I'm still getting used to the jet lag, so it was tough," said Sung, who is in the event on a sponsor's exemption.

"Fortunately the wind direction was the same as yesterday, so it was easy to adjust."

Two late bogeys dropped Sweden’s Linnea Strom alongside Hall – who has two runner-up finishes in four events this year – at the Hoakalei County Club on Oahu.

The Lotte Championship is the final warm-up event ahead of next week’s Chevron Championship, the first major of the year.