CLIFTON, N.J.
— Fewer than six months ago, Brittany Lincicome had a long sit-down with her parents and talked about taking a year off from golf. The Seminole native’s game had gone bad. With a little more work and a coaching change, things have turned around. Last month, Lincicome, 23, won her first major, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and this week she is starting to show the consistency all good players seem to possess. Lincicome followed an opening-round 64 with 3-under 69 Friday to take a two-shot lead over Suzann Pettersen and Ji Young Oh at the Sybase Classic. “I really had no expectations (Friday), just to keep it under par,” Lincicome said. “I was hitting it good (Thursday). When I went to the range (Friday) morning, I felt like I was hitting it really well. I hit 17 greens (Friday), which is pretty phenomenal.” The only one Lincicome missed in a bogey-free round was at the par-4 16th.
“I’ve never had two full rounds, 36 holes, without making a bogey before, and I think that was the only thing on my mind on the back nine,” Lincicome said. “I looked at my caddie at one point, and I just said, ‘Can we just three-putt one hole just to get it out of the way and I can be done with it and move forward’ “