World primary Jeeno Thitikul carded a nine-under-par 63 to open up a three-shot lead after two rounds of the LPGA’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.

The 22-year-old from Thailand made 4 consecutive birdies both aspect of the flip in her bogey-free spherical to achieve 14 below total in Florida.

Thitikul is aiming to win essentially the most profitable event in ladies’s golf – which has a prime prize of $4m (£3.1m) – for a second consecutive 12 months.

South Korea’s Kim Sei-young is at 11 below, whereas Japan’s Nasa Hataoka is a shot additional again together with first-round chief Somi Lee.

House favorite Nelly Korda, who struggled on Thursday, can be firmly in competition after surging up the leaderboard with a 64.

The 2-time main champion, who has not received an occasion this season, made 9 birdies together with three in her remaining 4 holes to finish Friday in a tie for fifth.

Korda mentioned some minor changes to her placing made the distinction after she managed simply three birdies on the opening day.

“On Thursday I used to be simply lacking by centimetres,” Korda mentioned. “They have been burning edges, lipping out.

“This has been sort of the frequent theme this 12 months. I really feel like I performed so a lot better than my rating has proven.

“So I actually simply went to the placing inexperienced for 5 minutes and simplified it.”

Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen is the very best positioned European at eight below with England’s Charley Hull frustratingly making three bogeys alongside six birdies in her spherical of 69.

It leaves England’s Hull at six below – eight photographs adrift of Thitikul – together with her compatriot Lottie Woad at 5 below.

The LPGA’s concluding occasion of the season carries a complete purse of $11m (£8.4m).