Kim fired the lowest round in major history at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains yesterday but admitted to feeling the pressure as she needed 11 more shots to negotiate her way around this time.

The 19-year-old started out with three bogeys before pulling back to level-par but a bogey on the finishing stretch left her at nine-under for the tournament, one behind Lincicome.

The 28-year-old from Florida began her second round six off the lead but proceeded to sink six birdies and revealed afterwards that practicing her swing barefooted on the range has helped her to improve her driving.

"It just slows it down, my tempo," said the 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship winner.

"Obviously I can't swing as hard as I would like to with no shoes on because I will fall.

"Today I just thought I would just take them off and hit some balls and see what happens.

"[I]actually did it yesterday.

"After my round I went to the range and hit balls for 15 to 20 minutes."

Brittany Lincicome revealed that practicing her swing without her shoes has helped her drive better and assume the lead in the Evian Championship at the end of the second round ©Getty Images




A 69 from South Korean Mi Jung Hur has her sitting at seven-under-par and in third place with defending champion Suzanne Pettersen of Norway and Australia's Karrie Webb a further shot back after rounds of 69 and 71 respectively.

It was not such a good day for Hur's compatriot So Yeon Ryu, however, after she was disqualified for damaging her putter.

The 2011 US Women's Open champion slammed the club against her shoe, bending the shaft which violated rule 4-3b that forbids the use of a club that was damaged other than in the normal course of play.

Ryu, who had started the day in 10th place, subsequently used the putter to tap in her ball thus incurring the wrath of officials.

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