CATRIONA MATTHEW, KYLIE WALKER, SALLY WATSON BOT OUT

              VIKKI LAING: Shot of Day 2 at the Ricoh Women's British Open.
                                     Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency 

VIKKI LAING ONLY SCOT TO BEAT THE 

CUT AFTER AN ALBATROSS 2

 FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
With a few additional words by Colin Farquharson
The shot of Day 2 at the Ricoh Women's British Open was achieved by Musselburgh’s Vikki Laing, who, playing in the last group, had an albatross 2 on Royal Birkdale's par-five 17^th. 
Laing used her 5-wood to hole her second shot from 240 yards away.
She finished with a 68, 10 shots better than her first round and her 36-hole aggregate of 146 made her the only Scot to survive the cut at 150.
It was the second albatross in the space of three weeks on the Ladies European Tour after Florentyna made an albatross on her way to winning the Italian Open two weeks earlier and the 10^th anniversary of Karen Stupples’ famous albatross recorded during the final round of the 2004 championship at Sunningdale, which she won by five shots.
Mo Martin of the United States fired a second successive round of 69 to take a three stroke lead pm six-under 138 at the Southport, Lancashire venue.
On a second day of clear blue skies and sunshine, the 31-year-old Californian posted a two-round total of six-under-par, to end the day ahead of Spain’s Beatriz Recari (67), South Korean So Yeon Ryu (70).
Martin is not one of the longer hitters, but she has been the most accurate driver of the ball on the LPGA for the past two seasons. Her strategy of aiming for the widest parts of the fairways has been paying off this week.
“It's always nice when your plan pans out.  So it's fun to be here,” said the 5’3” third year LPGA player, who has three wins on the US Symetra Tour.
Martin birdied the sixth, seventh, 10^th, 15^th and 18^th and bogeyed holes 11 and 12. She has been sticking to her plan and avoiding the penalising rough and added: “My caddie, Kyle, and I, just figured out where the widest parts of the fairway were, where I would have the best approaches into the greens.  
"I don't hit it particularly long, so just capitalising on my accuracy. And then on a course like this, I think I hit the last two ‑‑ I think I hit one more 3‑wood today, so four and five 3‑woods off the tee, and that's particularly unusual for me.
" I'm usually driver all the time.  But just picking good targets, that's really key on this golf course, and executing it.”
European Solheim Cup player Recari and Sun Ju Ahn, who led the LPGA of Japan money list in 2010 and 2011, tied for the low round of the day with their 67s. It was an encouraging sign for Recari, who won twice on the LPGA in 2013 but has made only four cuts from 12 starts this year, citing hip and back injuries.
She also strained her wrist carrying four pieces of luggage at Edinburgh airport on Monday, claiming that the locals were ‘not gentlemen.’ 
However, due to some sterling work from the tournament’s physiotherapy team, her wrist was pain free by Wednesday and her swing has been corrected, thanks to the help of new coach, Jorge Parada.
Ahn and Julieta Granada of Paraguay tied for fourth spot on two-under-par. Sharing seventh with South Korean Amy Yang on one-under-par were Gwladys Nocera of France and Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn, who both finished eagle, birdie. They were later joined by Amelia Lewis, who dropped back after a double bogey on 18.
Nocera, with 12 titles on the Ladies European Tour, said: “I played pretty solid.  I didn't miss too many greens.  My driver, just made one mistake on 11.  The rest was pretty solid.  My putting is here, so that's good.  And I just love this place, so I just try to make the most of it.  It's so beautiful here, it's the best.”
English amateur Georgia Hall, 18, was the best placed of the home players on one-over-par in a share of 16^th place.
The most notable names among those who failed to make the cut at 150 was former Ricoh Women's British Open champion Catriona Matthew and Aussie ace Karrie Webb.
The North Berwick player ran up an 83 after a 74, mainly due to her poorest putting round for many a long year. 
Webb missed out by one shot with scores of 79 and 72 for 151.
Kylie Walker (82-75) also failed on the 157 mark, the same total as Catriona Matthew, and Sally Watson (80-81) bowed out on 161.

SECOND-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
138 Mo Martin (USA)  69 69
141 So Yeon Ryu (SKOR)  71 70, Beatriz Recari (ESP)  74 67
142 Sun-Ju Ahn (SKOR)  75 67, Julieta Granada (PAR)  72 70
143 Amelia Lewis (USA)  72 71, Ariya Jutanugarn (THA)  75 68, Amy Yang (SKOR)  71 72, Gwladys Nocera (FRA)  73 70
144 Jessica Korda (USA)  72 72, Inbee Park (SKOR)  72 72, Shanshan Feng (CHN)  73 71, Azahara Munoz (ESP)  72 72, Morgan Pressel (USA)  70 74, Eun-Hee Ji (KOR)  74 70
145 Suzann Pettersen (NOR)  72 73, Ai Miyazato (JPN)  72 73, Sophie Giquel-Bettan (FRA)  76 69, Stacy Lewis (USA)  71 74, Jenny Shin (SKOR)  73 72, Emma Talley (USA)  72 73, Georgia Hall (ENG)  73 72
146 Vikki Laing (SCO)  78 68, Hannah Jun (USA)  75 71, Chella Choi (KOR)  73 73, Angela Stanford (USA)  74 72
147 Jeong Jang (KOR)  73 74, Ayako Uehara (JPN)  68 79, Erina Hara (JPN)  73 74, Jiyai Shin (SKOR)  72 75, Pornanong Phatlum (THA)  73 74, Laura Davies (ENG)  75 72, Miki Saiki (JPN)  76 71
148 Diana Luna (ITA)  76 72, Xi Yu Lin (CHN)  74 74, Hee Young Park (SKOR)  76 72, Lee-Anne Pace (RSA)  75 73, Haru Nomura (JPN)  75 73, Lydia Ko (NZL)  72 76, Paula Creamer (USA)  75 73, Meena Lee (SKOR)  73 75, Brittany Lang (USA)  73 75, Karine Icher (FRA)  76 72, Jee Young Lee (SKOR)  76 72, Mina Harigae (USA)  70 78, Marina Alex (USA)  72 76, Ayaka Watanabe (JPN)  76 72, Brittany Lincicome (USA)  76 72
149 Belen Mozo (ESP)  77 72, Giulia Sergas (ITA)  76 73, Austin Ernst (USA)  76 73, Carlota Ciganda (ESP)  74 75, Valentine Derrey (FRA)  79 70, Sarah Kemp (AUS)  70 79, Dori Carter (USA)  73 76, Lexi Thompson (USA)  72 77, Nikki Campbell (AUS)  77 72, Ji Young Oh (SKOR)  76 73, Charley Hull (ENG)  73 76
150 Kristy McPherson (USA)  74 76, Rikako Morita (JPN)  75 75, Alison Walshe (USA)  74 76, Mika Miyazato (JPN)  78 72, Anna Nordqvist (SWE)  72 78, Christina Kim (USA)  79 71, Alena Sharp (CAN)  74 76, Il Hee Lee (SKOR)  76 74, Beth Allen (USA)  77 73, Thidapa Suwannapura (THA)  76 74, Becky Brewerton (WAL)  77 73

MISSED THE CUT

151 Stephanie Na (AUS)  79 72, Candie Kung (TPE)  76 75, Nontaya Srisawang (THA)  75 76, Stacy Lee Bregman (RSA)  76 75, Shiho Oyama (JPN)  79 72, Maria Balikoeva (RUS)  75 76, Karrie Webb (AUS)  72 79, Sandra Gal (GER)  78 73
152 Caroline Hedwall (SWE)  79 73, Sophie Walker (ENG)  77 75, Hannah Burke (ENG)  79 73, Amy Boulden (WAL)  78 74, Haeji Kang (SKOR)  78 74, I.K. Kim (SKOR)  77 75, Mi Hyang Lee (SKOR)  75 77, Linda Wessberg (SWE)  74 78, Stacey Keating (AUS)  74 78
153 Su-Hyun Oh (AUS) (am)  76 77, Lucy Williams (ENG)  76 77, Sun Young Yoo (KOR)  79 74, Ashleigh Simon (RSA)  81 72, Gerina Piller (USA)  76 77, Pernilla Lindberg (SWE)  78 75, Line Vedel (DEN)  78 75, O Sattaya (THA)  79 74, Amy Anderson (USA)  76 77, Stephanie Meadow (NIR)  77 76, Katie Futcher (USA)  75 78, Michelle Wie (USA)  75 78, Cheyenne Woods (USA)  78 75, Na Yeon Choi (SKOR)  78 75, Holly Clyburn (ENG)  71 82
154 - Lauren Taylor (ENG)  79 75, Liz Young (ENG)  82 72, Mariajo Uribe (COL)  83 71, Kim Kaufman (USA)  78 76, Yani Tseng (TPE)  82 72, Joanna Klatten (FRA)  78 76, Minjee Lee (AUS)  83 71, Danielle Kang (USA)  75 79
155 Titiya Plucksataporn (THA)  78 77, Camilla Lennarth (SWE)  77 78, Laetitia Beck (ISR)  78 77, Jodi Ewart Shadoff (ENG)  75 80, Mirim Lee (SKOR)  77 78
156 Christel Boeljon (NED)  75 81, Trish Johnson (ENG)  78 78, Katie Burnett (USA)  80 76, Misuzu Narita (JPN)  77 79
157 Malene Jorgensen (DEN)  79 78, Tiffany Joh (USA)  79 78, Florentyna Parker (ENG)  76 81, Kylie Walker (SCO)  82 75, Jacqui Concolino (USA)  81 76, Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)  78 79, Klara Spilkova (CZE)  77 80, Catriona Matthew (SCO)  74 83
158 Louise Larsson (SWE)  76 82, Mamiko Higa (JPN) 78 80, Karen Stupples (ENG)  77 81, Dewi Claire Schreefel (NED)  82 76, Paz Echeverria (CHL)  76 82
159 Marion Ricordeau (FRA)  76 83, Brooke Pancake (USA)  83 76
160 Emily Kristine Pedersen (DNK)  82 78
161 Patcharajutar Kongkraphan (THA)  78 83, Sally Watson (SCO)  80 81
163 Sarah-Jane Smith (AUS)  85 78
166 Bree Arthur (AUS)  82 84
167 Cathryn Bristow (NZL)  85 82
168 Holly Aitchison (ENG)  84 84