South Korea’s Na-Rin An holds a one-shot lead after the opening spherical of the CME Group Tour Championship, with world No 1 Nelly Korda off to a sluggish begin.
An, who has by no means beforehand gained on the LPGA Tour, tops the leaderboard at eight below after making eight birdies in a bogey-free opening spherical of 64 on the Tiburon Golf Membership in Naples, Florida.
One shot off the tempo is American Angel Yin, who recovered from a pair of bogeys in her opening 4 holes to submit a seven-under 65, boosted by an eagle three on the par-five seventeenth.
Former US Ladies’s Open winner Allisen Corpuz and Marina Alex are tied for third one shot additional again, whereas fellow former main winners Ariya Jutanugarn, Celine Boutier and reigning AIG Ladies’s Open champion Lydia Ko are in a grouping at 5 below.
Eire’s Leona Maguire is inside putting distance after making 4 birdies in a three-under 69 for her first spherical.
World No 1 Nelly Korda endured a harder opening spherical, carding a level-par 72 to take a seat a way off the tempo. England’s Charley Hull, who Korda beat out to win The Annika final weekend – her seventh win on tour this season – additionally struggled on day one.
Hull sits one over after two bogeys and a double-bogey in her opening 73.
The winner of the LPGA Tour’s season-ending match takes house $4m (£3.2m) in prize cash, the most important single-day payoff in girls’s golf.
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