Japan’s Yuka Sasso leads by one stroke after a troublesome first spherical on the US Girls’s Open in Philadelphia.
Sasso was considered one of simply 4 gamers to interrupt even on Thursday, posting a two-under 68 at Lancaster Nation Membership in Philadelphia.
She leads by considered one of a trio of 15-year-old novice Adela Czarnausek, Vicani Michai and Andrea Lee, whereas 10 gamers have carded even-par rounds of 70.
“It is the US Open. It is a main championship. It is the most important main league and I feel it is one of many hardest weeks we’ll play in,” Sasso stated. “I am not telling myself to be assured or something like that.”
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Nellie Corda has had a nightmare begin on the US Girls’s Open, her par-three twelfth gap on the twelfth gap tied her LPGA profession excessive throughout her first spherical
Amongst these struggling was world primary Nellie Corda, whose bid to keep up her unimaginable type collapsed after simply three holes.
Corda was the overwhelming favourite to assert her third main title after successful six of her final seven tournaments.
However after beginning with a bogey on the tenth, Corda raced to seven-bogey 10 on the par-three twelfth after hitting three balls into the water.
Korda’s three shot discovered a bunker behind the inexperienced, and her second shot was too robust, catching the slope and rolling into the water.
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Sofia Popova of Germany hits a wonderful gap shot in the course of the US Girls’s Open
From the drop zone, Corda discovered the water twice extra earlier than lastly hitting her eighth shot on the inexperienced and two-putting from 9 toes to drop to eight over par.
Korda’s dominant streak this season contains her second main win on the Chevron Championship, however she admitted in her pre-tournament press convention that she anticipated to face a “distance beast” this week.
England’s Jodie Ewart Sheduff opened with a two-over par 72, whereas Eire’s Leona Maguire shot again additional.
Lancaster Nation Membership has been revised and lengthened to a par 70 of 6,583 yards because the final U.S. Open in 2015.
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