Rookie of the Year on the U.S. Women’s Professional Golf (LPGA) Tour, Hae Ran Lee, is off to a mid-table start to her sophomore campaign.
The South Korean shot a 1-under 71 in the first round of the LPGA Tour’s Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions ($1.5 million purse) at the par-72 Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando, Florida, on Monday (Sept. 19).
She is tied for 18th, six strokes behind Ayaka Furue (JPN), who shot a 7-under 65 to take the lead.
The tournament is the first LPGA Tour event of the year.
It is the first for Hae-ran, who must have won an LPGA Tour event in the last two years to qualify.
She qualified for this event by winning the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship last October.
She struggled with her shots on the unfamiliar course, 온라인카지노 missing the greens six times. Her 29 putts weren’t good enough either.
However, she capitalized on three birdie chances and two bogeys to bounce back in the second round.
Hee-young Yang, the winner of last year’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship, shot a 1-over-par 73 to finish tied for 24th.
Jeon In-ji, the defending KPMG Women’s PGA Championship champion, slipped to a tie for 28th with a 2-over-par 74.
Maya Stark (SWE) and Gabi Lopez (MEX) are tied for second at 5-under 67, followed by Danielle Kang and Allie Ewing (USA) at 4-under 68.
Brooke Henderson (CAN), looking for her first back-to-back victories, and resurgent Lydia Ko (NZL) are tied for sixth at 3-under 69.
Korean-Americans Andrea Lee (USA) and Grace Kim (AUS) are also in the top six.
In the Celebrity Competition, 에볼루션 바카라사이트 where players play in a mixed field but are ranked separately using a modified Stableford format, Lake Nona Golf & Country Club member Annika Sorenstam (SWE) leads the field with 40 points.
