Angel Yin is one of the LPGAs most powerful players, but her coach says theres a lot more to the young Americans game.Bobby Lasken says Yin plays with an intelligence and feel in her hands you dont find in a lot of players.Yin, an LPGA rookie who turned 19 earlier this month, took the outright lead in the second round of the KEB Hana Bank Championship in South Korea Friday in a bid to claim her first tour victory. She helped the United States win the Solheim Cup in August as the second youngest American ever to play in the international team event. Lexi Thompson was four months younger when she made her first team.With a 7-under-par 65 Friday, Yin took a two-shot lead on a trio of South Koreans: two-time major champion In Gee Chun (65), reigning U.S. Womens Open champ Sung Hyun Park (69) and Jin Young Ko (67).Lasken says Yin has a rare feel for a golf club, a sense of equipment that most young players dont have.Its the most amazing thing, Lasken said. She has such a great feel for clubs. She probably knows more about golf clubs than any player on the LPGA tour. She really has an understanding of weighting and things like that, when a club isnt right, when something is a bit off. She can tell if the weighting on a putter head makes it a little open. People who dont really know may not think it matters. It matters. She knows clubs in a way thats rare.Yin ranks seventh on the LPGA in driving distance, averaging 271 yards per drive, and she used that power taking the lead on the Sky 72 Ocean Course in Incheon. She eagled the fifth hole, hitting driver and then 6-iron to 12 feet. She birdied the other three par 5s, playing them cumulatively in 5 under.Distance is the highlight of my game, my advantage, too, Yin said.While Yin wasnt a household name in the womens game before the Solheim Cup, she has been on the radar of other tour players since she began emerging as a force as a junior growing up in California.
Full-field scores from the LPGA KEB HanaBank Championship
At 13, Yin qualified for the U.S. Womens Open at Blackwolf Run. At 14, she won a junior qualifier to get into the ANA Inspiration and made the cut. At 15, she Monday qualified to get into the LPGAs Kia Classic, At 16, she won the AJGAs Annika Invitational, finished runner up in the U.S. Girls Junior and played on the U.S. Junior Solheim Cup team.Angel is a gifted athlete, Lasken said. A lot of what she has you just cant teach.Lasken first heard about Yin when she was 10. Laskens sister, Kim, an LPGA pro at the time, was paired with Yin in a U.S. Womens Open qualifier.Kim called me after saying, 'Oh my God, this 10-year-old girl was outdriving me by 30 yards, Lasken said. Angel was a legend at 10.Yin made a name for herself on the Ladies European Tour last year. She finished second on tour in driving distance and 11th on the Order of Merit.She also made a name for herself with her quirky, good humor.Shes hilarious, Lasken said.Yins handle on Instagram is @angelyinLOL.Im from California, and I could tell right away Angel was a California girl, said Beth Allen, the first American to win the LETs Order of Merit. Its the way she talks, and that Californian free spirit. She marches to the beat of her own drum. Shes just a lot of fun.
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