WASHINGTON (AFP) – China’s Liu Ruixin’s hot putter helped her shrug off severe allergies and grab the first-round lead in the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Queen City Championship on Thursday on seven-under par 65. The 24-year-old needed just 27 putts in her bogey-free round at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, and admitted she […]
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Jenny Shin is the top South Korean player after the opening round of the second major championship of the LPGA season. Shin shot a two-under 69 to tie five others for sixth place in the first round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, on Thursday. The par-71 course played at 6,511 yards in the opening round. Shin, whose Korean given name is Ji-eun, had five bird.
Done in by a late double bogey, South Korean Yang Hee-young has missed out on a chance to end her four-year LPGA title drought. Yang finished tied for third at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give at Blythefield Country Club in Belmont, Michigan, on Sunday. After shooting a three-under 69, which included a double bogey on the 16th, Yang ended at 18-under, three behind the champion, Leona Maguire of Ireland. Yang w.