MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Grace Park and Song-Hee Kim shot 5-under 67s on Thursday to share the first-round lead in the Avnet LPGA Classic, the tour’s only event in a six-week stretch.
Park eagled the par-5 13th and had had five birdies and two bogeys on The Crossings course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail’s Magnolia Grove complex. She won the last of her six LPGA Tour titles in 2004.
Kim, winless on the tour, had seven birdies and two bogeys.
Stacy Lewis, the Kraft Nabisco winner three weeks ago, was a stroke back at 68 along with Karen Stupples.
Defending champion Se Ri Pak shot a 69 to match Na Yeon Choi and Angela Oh.
Michelle Wie opened with a 76. She bogeyed five of the first eight holes.
