Feng holds a tasty two-shot lead

Shanshan Feng must really enjoy the food in New Jersey.

On Thursday, the personable 27year-old from China revealed that her love for the food in America might be a secret to her success.

One day later, Feng followed her opening-round 66 with a 70 to surge to 8-under and take a twoshot lead into the weekend at the U.S. Women’s Open at Trump National in Bedminster.

Not even the arrival of course owner, President Donald Trump, during her round could distract Feng, who’s looking to go wire-towire and win her eighth LPGA title.

Trump, surrounded by Secret Service agents, made his arrival to watch while Feng was on the 15th hole, which runs near the clubhouse.

“I heard people like kind of screaming, so that’s what I was try- ing to find out, like, ‘Why they were screaming?’ ’’ she said. “But I was still really focusing on my game. I didn’t really get distracted.’’

The player right behind Feng is Jeongeun6 Lee.

No, that’s not a misprint of her first name. The number “6’’ is a significant one for Jeongeun6 Lee. She’s 6-under after shooting her second 69 of the week, standing two shots off of Feng’s lead. And the “6’’ in her name signifies she is the sixth player with the exact same first and last name, among two in the field this week.

“The ‘6’ was added to my name, Jeongeun, because there [are] 6 different girls with same name as KLPGA,’’ she said, referring to the Korean LPGA. “I’m the last one with the name Jeongeun which gave me the 6. The name of my

The tournament lost a little bit of its star power Friday morning when Michelle Wie was forced to withdraw from the tournament citing a neck injury.

Wie, whose opening round was suspended because of darkness Thursday, completed it early Friday, finishing with a 1-over 73. Then, after bogeying her first hole of the second round Friday, No. 10, she decided she could not continue and notified USGA officials she was withdrawing.