Girls’s PGA Championship first spherical
-9 I Yoon (Kor); -7 Ok Davidson (Aus); -5 A Kim (Kor), A Pano (US); -4 A Krauter (Ger), H Choi (Kor), M Khang (US)
Chosen others: -2 N Korda (US); E L Woad (Eng); +1 C Hull (Eng), M Rhodes (Eng), G Dryburgh (Sco), L Walsh (Ire)
South Korea’s Ina Yoon leads the Girls’s PGA Championship by two pictures after the primary spherical as Nellie Korda’s hopes of a 3rd straight main have been dented.
The 23-year-old made no bogeys in a nine-under-par 63 at Hazletine in Minnesota – and is seven pictures away from world primary Korda.
Yoon, who’s in her second yr on the LGPA Tour and is but to complete larger than fourth, made 9 birdies in a stunning opening spherical.
Australia’s Karis Davidson is second after a seven-under 65 whereas South Korea’s A-Lim Kim and America’s Alexa Pano are tied third on 5 beneath.
“It was enjoyable to play on the market,” mentioned Yoon. “I am simply attempting to think about nothing. Give attention to what I have to do. Give attention to course of. That half, I believe, I did nice.”
American Korda is in a share of nineteenth after making 5 birdies but additionally a double bogey on the sixteenth gap.
The 27-year-old four-time main winner gained the Chevron Championship in April and the US Girls’s Open earlier this month.
“Truthfully simply made one unhealthy swing, which ended up in a double. However general, fairly pleased with my day,” mentioned Korda.
“I put myself into an excellent place. I am actually pleased with the primary day. You’ll be able to’t win it on the primary day, however you may undoubtedly lose it. General pleased with a strong begin.”
The purse of $13m (£9.8m) this week is the biggest in girls’s golf historical past, with $1.95m (£1.48m) awarded to the winner.
