Leona Maguire made a stable however unspectacular begin within the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship in Singapore however Anna Foster and rookie Aine Donegan didn’t get to hit a shot within the LET’s weather-delayed Ford Ladies’s NSW Open in Australia.
Play was suspended for the day as a result of flooding at Wollongong Golf Membership in New South Wales, and the Girls European Tour occasion, co-sanctioned with the WPGA Tour of Australasia, will now resume on Friday at 08:00 native time.
Denmark’s Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen and Germany’s Alexandra Försterling share the clubhouse lead after battling by way of brutal situations to card two-under 69s as England’s Charlotte Heath received to 3 underneath by way of 15 holes when play was suspended.
“It was in all probability one of the brutal rounds I’ve ever performed,” stated four-time LET winner Försterling, who was two-over by way of 9 holes earlier than making 4 birdies in her first 5 holes on the again 9.
“It was loopy. It in all probability looks like a 59 or one thing. It feels insane. I used to be really shocked I shot two-under as a result of I actually didn’t depend.”
Kibsgaard Nielsen, in the meantime, eagled the par-five thirteenth as she additionally shot a brilliant 69..
“I used to be struggling slightly bit from the primary tee, and it was robust situations,” the Dane stated. “I simply tried to hit the center of the greens and hit some good photographs that ended up shut.
“I believe I added 20 per cent of the space going into the wind, which is loads. And simply every part’s so moist.”
Temperatures crept near 30 °C in breezy Singapore, the place Co Cavan star Maguire opened with a stage par 72 that left her tied for twenty eighth, six strokes off the lead.
Beginning on the again 9, she sandwiched birdies on the 14th and fifteenth between bogeys on the eleventh and third (her twelfth) earlier than following one other bogey on the quick seventh with a birdie on the par-five eighth.
She was six strokes behind American Auston Kim, who shot a six-under 66 to guide by a shot from China’s Yan Liu.
England’s Mimi Rhodes, American Lindy Duncan, Korea’s Haeran Ryu, Japan’s Miyu Yamashita and Sweden’s Linn Grant have been tied for third after three-under 69s nevertheless it was more durable going for a few of the star names.
World quantity three Charley Hull was tied for twenty eighth with Maguire after her 72, whereas world primary Jeeno Thitikul and England’s Lottie Woad have been in an enormous group to put up one-over 73s.
“I hit a number of good photographs right this moment after which each single time I hit a nasty one I used to be in a position to recuperate,” stated chief Kim, who had simply 21 putts in a seven-birdie spherical.
“I made three actually huge par saves right this moment, in order that form of pulled my spherical collectively to go tremendous low.
“Total, I’ve hit a number of good photographs and each single time I hit a nasty one, I used to be in a position to recuperate.”
Kim pointed to accuracy from the tee as key to scoring nicely at Sentosa’s Tanjong Course.
“I believe it is a fairly difficult course in that there are a few holes which are actually wonky,” she defined.
“You must be in place off the tee as a way to have an opportunity to transform for a birdie and even par. In the event you hit within the mistaken spots, you simply do not actually have an opportunity.
“Lots of these holes you simply actually need to be in place to make par and in case you make birdie, it is a bonus.”
