Furue wasn’t the only one on a hot streak when lightning lit up the skies over Lake Geneva. The 46-year-old Angela Stanford, making her final major championship start at the place that made her a major champion in 2018, was 5 under over her last four holes when round two was suspended.

Stanford, who’d just teed off on the par-4 13th hole, sits in a share of fourth with Patty Tavatanakit at 8 under. She played her first Evian in 2001 and ended a streak of 98 consecutive major starts earlier this summer after missing the U.S. Women’s Open. Jack Nicklaus is the only person in golf history to play in 100 or more consecutive majors.

“It’s meant the world to me,” said Stanford of her play in the majors. “You hear people define their careers by majors. I think winning majors is obviously the ultimate, but for me, you know, I’ve always been about showing up and being consistent.

“So I think the longevity of it I’m pretty proud of. Yeah, of course I wish I could have won more, but the fact that I got to play in this many, I mean, I would’ve never dreamed of that.”

On Tuesday of Evian week, Stanford joined Golfweek’s Big Pickle podcast to talk about her decades-long career coming to a close and reminisce on that victory in France six years ago. She remains the only American to win Evian since it became a major championship in 2013. Should she go on to win this week, she’d be the oldest major champion in LPGA history.

With four holes left in her second round, world No. 1 Nelly Korda has put herself in position to make a cut on the LPGA for the first time since May. Though she’s 1 over in the round, she’s 1 under for the tournament. When play was suspended for the day, the cut line fell at even par.

Korda, of course, won six tournaments in her first eight starts of the 2024 season. However, she has missed the cut in her last three events.

Speaking of players currently listed outside the cut line, last week’s winner on the LET, Leona Maguire, looks like she’ll miss the weekend after a pair of 72s.

U.S. Women’s Open winner Yuka Saso is 4 over for the championship with four holes to play, and Charley Hull, who opened with a 79, is doing her best to rebound. The Englishwoman is 4 under in her second round but will still need a heroic finish to see Sunday action. Hull has struggled with a shoulder injury of late.

Albane Valenzuela considers the Amundi Evian a home event. She grew up across the lake in Geneva, Switzerland, and her parents actually met at an exhibition at Evian Resort Golf Club in 1991.

A second-round 66 puts Valenzuela in position for her best finish in nine appearances at the event. She tied for 27th at the Evian two years ago.

“Putting and hitting fairways, that’s definitely key out there,” said the Stanford alum. “The rough is pretty thick, so if you’re out of position, it definitely gets pretty tricky.”

Valenzuela has younger brother, Alex, on the bag this week and plenty of support outside the ropes. She finished runner-up to Patty Tavatanakit earlier this season in Thailand.

Yu Jin Sung posted the low round of the tournament so far, an 8-under 63, on Friday in the morning wave to the vault from 75th to a share of sixth by day’s end. The LPGA rookie, who tied for 35th last month at the KPMG Women’s PGA, birdied her first four holes of the day (Nos. 10-13) and eagled the par-5 seventh. A three-time winner on the KLPGA, she hit 17 greens in the second round and needed only 27 putts.

“I think the course is pretty familiar to courses I’ve played in Korea,” said Sung. “It’s a bit tougher here than in Korea, but there are many similarities so I think Korean players may have an advantage in attacking the pins. Even if you hit it well, the ball tends to bounce out quite a bit so it’s important to keep your mental game in and focus when that happens.”

Jung teamed up with Japan’s Mao Saigo two weeks ago at the Dow Championship where they took a share of eighth. The South Korean said she learned much from her fellow rookie, a six-time winner on the JLPGA.

“Mao is so calm,” said Jung. “When you play golf, you encounter critical situations like situations you can’t miss or opportunities you have to grasp it. I don’t think she misses those. I want to be able to grasp those opportunities like she does and I think I was able to do that today and hope to continue tomorrow.”

A closing eagle on Friday boosted Hall up the board with a second-round 67 and, given how she felt, she was thrilled with it.

“My shoulder has been a bit tight for a couple weeks but no problems at all,” said Hall, “then in the pro-am when I was warming up, I just hit a couple and it went straightaway and locked up on me, kind of my upper back.

“So I only saw six holes of the course before teeing it up yesterday.”

Hall said the pain only grew worse on Friday and she planned to see the physio straight away hoping for some relief.

“I’ve got 24 hours before I tee off again,” she said, “so, yeah, should be enough hopefully.”