Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar were swept away by the wind as the Indian pair exited the AIG Women’s Open 2024 at the halfway point on Friday.
Aditi added another 76 to her first round score to total 8 over par for two days, while Diksha Dagar, who shot 77 in the first round, added 76 to total 9 over par.
The second round was yet to be completed but the Indians had no chance of making it to the weekend rounds as the cut was likely to fall at 4 overs.
This was Aditi’s eighth Women’s Open and her fifth time missing the cut at the Major, with her best result coming in 2018 when she finished tied for 22nd.
Diksha, who is playing the Women’s Open for the fifth time, missed the cut for the fourth time, although the last time she played, at Walton Heath, her 21st-place finish was the best performance by an Indian woman at the Open.
Aditi managed to handle the conditions well over 14 holes, at which point she was even on par with two birdies and two bogeys. At that stage of the tournament she was 4 over par and looked to be in a position to make the cut.
Then came the cruel triple bogey on the par-4 15th, where he drove into the rough and then into a bunker and three-putted to make matters worse. A bogey followed on the 16th and suddenly he was four strokes down in two holes. A par-par finish wasn’t enough and he missed the cut by a wide margin.
Diksha needed a low score after a 77 on the first day. She seemed confident of making six straight pars, but in the next six holes she made four bogeys. She was unable to recover in the last six, where she made another par.
World number one Nelly Korda carded a bogey-free 68 to match her first-day performance. She had four birdies and no bogeys on the second day against five birdies and one bogey on the first. With just one bogey through 36 holes, she looks on course to win a second Major in 2024 after her previous victory at Chevron.
She beat the defending champion, American Lilia Vu (69-70) by three strokes, and last year’s runner-up, Englishwoman Charley Hull (67-72).
Olympic gold medalist Lydia Ko (71-70) and 2022 AIG Women’s Open champion Ashleigh Buhai (72-69) tied for fourth place alongside Mao Saigo of Japan, Cassandra Alexander of South Africa and Chien Pei-yun of Taipei.
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