Torrential rain greeted the early groups on day two, Aussie Ella Scaysbrook making a mad dash after her opening tee shot to change into rain pants borrowed from team manager, Stacey Peters.

The extra water in the playing surfaces and a day spent putting on raingear and taking it off again testing the patience of all 84 players in the field.

Round 1 leader Yunseo Yang of Korea seemed bothered little, shooting 5-under 67 to go with her opening 64 to be 13-under at the halfway mark with a three-stroke lead from fellow Korean Gyu Been Kim (65) and Rianne Malixi (66) of the Philippines.
 

Despite making an ideal start with birdie at the first, Roberts was struggling to maintain touch until back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15 – holes she bogeyed on day one – gave her a much-needed shot of momentum heading into the weekend.

The 21-year-old from Bendigo narrowly missed out on making it three birdies in succession when her putt sat on the left lip on 16, Roberts signing for a 2-under 70 and 6-under total to be tied sixth with two rounds to play.

“I was playing with Rianne and she was hitting it quite close and making a lot of birdies,” said Roberts.

“When you’re playing with someone that’s doing that and you can’t really get anything going yourself, it does get a little bit tricky.

“Obviously the key is to stay patient, and I think I did that pretty well. Managed to roll in birdies on 14 and 15, which was nice.

“Still another two days, a lot of golf, so hopefully my putter can start working a little bit better and roll in a few more.”

Queensland 19-year-old Grace Rho is the next best of the six-strong Aussie representation, producing one of the shots of the day, almost holing her 9-iron from 120 metres at the par-4 13th on her way to a round of even-par 72 to be tied 17th at 1-under.

Yet it wasn’t her most impactful shot of the day, holing a putt from 60 feet on the front fringe to save par at the par-4 sixth.

“That was crazy,” said the Royal Queensland Golf Club member.

“I hooked my drive. It went over the trees, so I was just left of the trees in the rough. I tried to hit a low 5-iron, punch it out, but it hit the root on the left and it went up right, hit the tree again and dropped straight down.

“It was right next to these twigs and grass all piled up so I chipped it out again.

“I was right next to the green on the fringe and I holed a 60-foot putt for par.”

South Australian Raegan Denton (75), Gold Coast’s Shyla Singh (74) and Scaysbrook (75) all made the cut, Sydney’s Rachel Lee (73) left to rue a quadruple bogey in Round 1 to miss the weekend by two strokes.

Tied for 42nd in her debut in this championship 12 months ago, Scaysbrook hopes to make a greater impression on the leaderboard over the closing 36 holes.

“I feel like I didn’t even play that bad,” said the 20-year-old.

“I feel like I almost played better than yesterday, but my score was obviously not. It was one shot worse, but I guess that happens.

“I feel like (making the cut) gives me an opportunity to have a good round and climb the leaderboard a little bit.

“I haven’t been too happy with my scores, but if I keep going and keep playing the way I am, the score will come. That just happens in golf some weeks.”

A total of 50 players exactly made the cut-line that fell at 6-over, five players from Korea inside the top 10 at the halfway mark.