What with the Presidents Cup shifting to NBC today -- and Sammy the Squirrel moving into his new condominium inside the woods off of the second hollow at Muirfield -- the brand new LPGA event will sooner or later get a few airtime on GC.
The inaugural Reignwood LPGA Classic in Beijing, China will probable have finished its 0.33 spherical by the point you study this, and that third spherical may be tape-not on time for broadcast later today. In the interim, permit me deliver you up-to-velocity on what has been happening.
The Reignwood Pine Valley Golf Club is 6596 yards lengthy and is a par-73 direction, which should assist you understand why the scores appearance a chunk abnormal. (I recognize I turned into careworn once I noticed So Yeon Ryu at -6 with ratings of 71-sixty nine.)
On Thursday, Na Yeon Choi and Jessica Korda each shot sixty four to take the first round lead. They had been 4 shots beforehand of Stacy Lewis, Hee Kyung Seo, and Hee Young Park. Shanshan Feng, the primary Chinese participant to win a main (the 2012 Wegmans LPGA Championship, if you've forgotten) shot 70 and changed into 6 pictures returned.
On Friday Korda (now -14) posted a 68 to take a 2-shot lead over Stacy Lewis and -- bet who? -- Shanshan Feng, who shot her very own sixty four. Na Yeon Choi slipped again a bit, to -11, and Inbee Park moved as much as -9. Remember that Park and Lewis are combating Suzann Pettersen for numerous of the LPGA's every year awards, so that is pretty important for them.
As I'm penning this, the third spherical -- which you'll see later today -- has started out and all but nine of the leaders have teed off. This looks as if it's going to be a pretty top tournament, so that you might want to switch off NBC's insurance of the Presidents Cup in short and test out the action. (For what it's really worth, I suspect the Presidents Cup might be running long again these days when you consider that there are 2 classes being performed and there is more climate expected. Even if you watch a number of the LPGA, there must still be lots of Presidents Cup coverage to observe.)
GC says they're going to broadcast the LPGA event from 3pm-5pm ET this afternoon if you're interested. And the photo came from this page at LPGA.com.
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