Women's Open hopeful makes snowman (!) after getting stuck in St Andrews bunker

Rose Zhang endured a bit of a nightmare during the second round of the AIG Women's Open at St Andrews. 

The American carded a level par 72 in the opening round of the major which left her five strokes adrift of the lead. 

She was hoping to make a charge up the leaderboard on Friday at the home of golf but came unstuck in remarkable fashion at the second hole. 

LPGA Tour star Zhang found herself in a greenside pot bunker and it took her three attempts to get the ball out. 

Zhang's first effort smashed face of the bunker and came back to her feet. 

She attempted a similar shot with her second but this time the ball hit her thigh and her club after colliding with the face of the trap once again. 

In the end, she was forced to go backwards. 

"Just stopping the rot," on-course commentator Iona Stephen explained.

"There's no point in running up a cricket score."

Zhang tapped in for a quadruple bogey 8 and left the hole on 3-over par.

She bounced back with a birdie at the next and made a par at the 4th hole. 

But a double bogey at the par-5 5th left her in a battle to make the projected cut of 4-over. 

Watch what happened here:

Nelly Korda takes the lead

At the other end of the leaderboard American world number one Nelly Korda carded her second round of 4-under 68 to take the lead. 

She was leading by three strokes but China's Ruoning Ying was playing well in the afternoon wave and cutting into her lead. 

Charley Hull battled her way to a level par 72. 

Read more about that here. 

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