House favorite Leona Maguire is inside two pictures of a three-way tie for the lead after the opening spherical of the KPMG Girls’s Irish Open.
The Solheim Cup star carded three birdies in a bogey-free 70 on the par-73 format at Carton Home to take a seat within the group tied-seventh, as Alessandra Fanali, Ursula Wikstrom and Luna Sobron Galmes set the early tempo.
Maguire opened with a two-putt birdie on the par-five first and took benefit of the par-five sixth to succeed in the flip in 35, then ended a run of pars by birdieing the par-five seventeenth to shut out a blemish-free begin.
“It was a steady day, I gave myself a lot of chances,” Maguire stated. “Particularly on the front nine, I felt like I could have been seven under through the front nine if I would have holed a few putts. Anytime bogey-free three-under is never a bad way to start.
“Entrance 9 was enjoying downwind fairly a bit on these opening few holes and the opening par-fives are a very good probability to start out off with. There’s loads of birdie probabilities on the market, it is simply making the most of them.”
Fanali birdied 4 of her first six holes after which cancelled out a bogey on the eighth by selecting up pictures on the eleventh and thirteenth, seeing her set the preliminary clubhouse goal, whereas Wikstrom birdied six of the opening 12 holes and held the outright lead till a final-hole bogey.
Sobron blended six birdies with a lone bogey late within the day to make it a three-way tie on the prime, with French duo Pauline Roussin-Bouchard and Agathe Sauzon a shot off the tempo alongside Germany’s Carolin Kauffmann.
“I played very good,” Sobron stated. “I hit all of the greens. The first nine holes was really good, I made a lot of putts. I feel a lot of confidence in my game. I’m having a good year, I have confidence, I just need to be patient. In any moment, the good rounds will come.”
Luna Sobron Galmes shares the early lead
England’s Georgia Corridor – who earned a captain’s decide for Workforce Europe’s Solheim Cup staff – is 5 pictures off the tempo after level-par 73.
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