Once is not custom the tricolor contingent is present in its entirety at the start of a tournament of LPGA Tour, since the three Blue holders of green fees on the American circuit are at the start of the Volunteers of America Classic this week in Texas, as well as the Symetra Tour Julie Aimé. Contested on the course of theOld American Golf Club Located in The Colony, a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolis, the $ 1.5 million event kicked off Thursday. And this is the Korean Jin Young Ko, freshly dispossessed of its place of world number 1 by Nelly Korda following the victory of the American in KPMG Women’s PGA Championship last Sunday, which grabbed the head. The 25-year-old made a whopping 63 (-8) with an eagle on the 17 and six birdies on the first leg, her last nine holes. She is one step ahead of her compatriots Jeongeun Lee6 and In Gee Chun.
Jin Young Ko leads heading into Friday after firing a bogey-free 63
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French side Perrine Delacour had a brilliant start: also part of the 10, Picard struggled at the start of the game, finishing the first nine in +2 with three bogeys against a birdie, but shone on the first leg where she scored no less than seven birdies in nine holes! She therefore returned a superb 66 (-5) which places her sixth, three strokes from Ko. Good debut also for Celine Boutier and Celine Herbin, both authors of a 68 (-3) which places them in sixteenth place at five lengths. Alone Julie Aimé, who played 73 (+2), is not in a favorable position at the end of this first round, since she is in 100th place three strokes from the provisional cut.
