February 20-23
Bonville, New South Wales
€240,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4
Lauren Stephenson from South Carolina carded a six-under 66 to lead after the first round of the Geoff King Motors Australian Ladies Classic Bonville.
Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh, Finland’s Noora Komulainen, Australian Breanna Gill and Korean trio Min A Woon, Ayean Cho and Hye Ji Lee are a stroke off the lead after posting 67s in perfect scoring conditions at Bonville Golf Resort on Thursday.
Stephenson teed off from the ninth hole and began her round with a fast start, carding birdies on four of her first six holes. The second-year LPGA player added three more birdies against one bogey.
“It was a great day. I had seven birdies and one bogey, where I missed a short putt. I made a lot of good putts on the other holes so I couldn’t be too upset about it,” Stephenson said of her round.
Second-year professional @LaurenSteph1 has taken the lead on 6-under at the #AusLadiesClassic
— Ladies European Tour (@LETgolf) February 20, 2020
We caught up with her after her round pic.twitter.com/y2LcVqT2uQ
“The first nine holes are really scoreable so it’s important to get off to a great start. I made a birdie on my second hole and then just continued that and had three birdies in a row.
“The back nine was really important and it was great to go into the harder holes knowing that I had already had a couple of birdies.”
Stephenson spent last season as a rookie on the LPGA Tour. In 20 starts, the University of Alabama product made 11 cuts and produced one top-10, which was a tie for eighth in her first tournament, the ISPS Handa Vic Open in Australia. She ended the season ranked 85th on the Race to CME Globe.
This is her fourth week of competition in 2020, as she played in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio and tied for 35th, missed the cut in the ISPS Handa Vic Open and tied for 48th in the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open last week.
She said: “I love Australia. I’m super happy to be here for a month. I think I would move here if I didn’t live in the United States. The people are so nice and the golf is so fun. This course is extremely different to what we played the last two weeks in the Vic and Australian Opens, but this course is amazing. It’s nice to play something that’s more familiar to me, because my courses at home have a lot of grain and are similar to this style. I feel at home.”
Dryburgh, who is no stranger to golf in Australia, also started on the ninth hole and tallied six birdies and one bogey, crediting a hot putter as the key to her success.
She said: “Everything was pretty good today. This is my third time back in Bonville and I’ve been in Australia for six weeks now, so I’m loving life out here and the heat is much better than the weather at home. There were six birdies and one bogey, so I was rolling it well with the putter.”
A hot start for @gemmadryburgh 🔥
— Ladies European Tour (@LETgolf) February 20, 2020
She shot a 5-under 67 @BonvilleGolf to sit one back in the first round of the #AusLadiesClassic pic.twitter.com/1UJzM7Vgl2
Min A Yoon, making the third start of her professional career, had a solid, bogey-free round. The ALPG Tour rookie commented: “This is my third year of coming to play in Australia. I came here for two years as an amateur and now I have a different mindset as a pro.”
Komulainen started from the first hole and went out in 33, two-under-par, before coming back in three-under 34.
She said: “That was my first round of the season, so I’m happy to start like this. I hit the ball really well and had a lot of birdie chances. I like the course. It’s beautiful and it’s always nice to be here.”
Both Lee and Cho, the top ranked player in the field at 35th on the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, finished well with four birdies on the back nine to get within one of the lead.
Meanwhile Western Australian Gill, who has won three titles on the ALPG Tour, said that she was playing aggressively from the word ‘go’.
Sweden’s Lina Boqvist and Ireland’s Leona Maguire are tied for eighth place on four-under-par, with a further seven players tied for tenth.
The defending champion Marianne Skarpnord opened with a level par round of 72 to sit in a share of 38th place.
Pos. |
Player | To Par |
R1 |
1 |
Lauren Stephenson (USA) | -6 |
66 |
2 |
Min Yoon (KOR) | -5 |
67 |
2 |
Gemma Dryburgh (SCO) | -5 |
67 |
2 |
Ayean Cho (KOR) | -5 |
67 |
2 |
Noora Komulainen (FIN) | -5 |
67 |
2 |
Breanna Gill (AUS) | -5 |
67 |
2 |
Hye Ji Lee (KOR) | -5 |
67 |
8 |
Lina Boqvist (SWE) | -4 |
68 |
8 |
Leona Maguire (IRL) | -4 |
68 |
10 |
Katherine Perry (USA) | -3 |
69 |
10 |
Amelia Lewis (USA) | -3 |
69 |
10 |
Charlotte Thomas (ENG) | -3 |
69 |
10 |
Stephanie Kyriacou (AUS) (a) | -3 |
69 |
10 |
Manon De Roey (BEL) | -3 |
69 |
10 |
Astrid Vayson De Pradenne (FRA) | -3 |
69 |
10 |
Aditi Ashok (IND) | -3 |
69 |
17 |
Anne Van Dam (NED) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Johanna Gustavsson (SWE) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Meghan MacLaren (ENG) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Christina Kim (USA) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Pia Babnik (SLO) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Julia Engstrom (SWE) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Luna Sobron (ESP) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Cassie Porter (AUS) (a) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Peiying Tsai (TPE) | -2 |
70 |
17 |
Hana Lee (KOR) | -2 |
70 |
27 |
Robyn Doig (CAN) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Jillian Hollis (USA) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Linnea Strom (SWE) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Becky Kay (AUS) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Elina Nummenpaa (FIN) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Laura Gonzalez Escallon (BEL) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Carmen Alonso (ESP) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Michele Thomson (SCO) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Sophie Hausmann (GER) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Celine Herbin (FRA) | -1 |
71 |
27 |
Kim Metraux (SUI) | -1 |
71 |
38 |
Alejandra Llaneza (MEX) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Sanna Nuutinen (FIN) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Karoline Lund (NOR) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Lydia Hall (WAL) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Christine Wolf (AUT) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Stephanie Na (AUS) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Marta Sanz Barrio (ESP) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Laura Murray (SCO) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Robyn Choi (AUS) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Doey Choi (AUS) (a) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Marianne Skarpnord (NOR) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Chloe Williams (WAL) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Jenny Haglund (SWE) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Esther Henseleit (GER) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Grace St Just (AUS) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Harang Lee (ESP) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Katja Pogacar (SLO) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Maia Schechter (USA) | Par |
72 |
38 |
Munchin Keh (NZL) | Par |
72 |
57 |
Ayaka Sugihara (JPN) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Nadine White (AUS) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Tiia Koivisto (FIN) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Kylie Henry (SCO) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Camilla Lennarth (SWE) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Whitney Hillier (AUS) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Felicity Johnson (ENG) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Emily Kristine Pedersen (DEN) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Annabel Dimmock (ENG) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Kanyalak Preedasuttijit (THA) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Maria Fassi (MEX) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Yae Eun Hong (KOR) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Holly Clyburn (ENG) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Megan Osland (CAN) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Diksha Dagar (IND) | 1 |
73 |
57 |
Mireia Prat (ESP) | 1 |
73 |
73 |
Tvesa Malik (IND) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Casey Wild (AUS) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Kelsey Bennett (AUS) (a) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Amy Walsh (AUS) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Grace Kim (AUS) (a) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Hannah Burke (ENG) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Laura Davies (ENG) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Olivia Cowan (GER) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Sarina Schmidt (GER) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Maha Haddioui (MAR) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Noemi Jimenez Martin (ESP) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Maria Hernandez (ESP) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Linette Littau Durr Holmslykke (DEN) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Laura Gomez Ruiz (ESP) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Kelsey Macdonald (SCO) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Ursula Wikstrom (FIN) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Gudrun Bjorgvinsdottir (ISL) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Elia Folch (ESP) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso (ITA) | 2 |
74 |
73 |
Hanee Song (NZL) | 2 |
74 |
93 |
Sock Hwee Koh (SIN) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
June Song (AUS) (a) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Sophie Yip (AUS) (a) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Belinda Ji (AUS) (a) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Isabelle Boineau (FRA) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Montana Strauss (AUS) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Beth Allen (USA) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Annelie Sjoholm (SWE) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Nobuhle Dlamini (SWZ) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Anna Young (CAN) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Chizuru Ueda (AUS) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Laura Fuenfstueck (GER) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Morgane Metraux (SUI) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Maiken Bing Paulsen (NOR) | 3 |
75 |
93 |
Nina Pegova (RUS) | 3 |
75 |
108 |
Charley Jacobs (AUS) (a) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Tonje Daffinrud (NOR) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Agathe Sauzon (FRA) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Manon Gidali (FRA) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Patricia Sanz Barrio (ESP) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Tahnia Ravnjak (AUS) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Sarah Kemp (AUS) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Paige Stubbs (AUS) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Georgia Clarke (AUS) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Sian Evans (ENG) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Karina Kukkonen (FIN) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Kirsten Rudgeley (AUS) (a) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Astha Madan (IND) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Magdalena Simmermacher (ARG) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Carolin Kauffmann (GER) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Brooke Baker (USA) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Alison Muirhead (SCO) | 4 |
76 |
108 |
Katelyn Must (AUS) | 4 |
76 |
126 |
Franziska Friedrich (GER) | 5 |
77 |
126 |
Kristalle Blum (AUS) | 5 |
77 |
126 |
Valdis Thora Jonsdottir (ISL) | 5 |
77 |
126 |
Ridhima Dilawari (IND) | 5 |
77 |
126 |
Leonie Harm (GER) | 5 |
77 |
131 |
Celina Yuan (AUS) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Hannah Park (AUS) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Gaurika Bishnoi (IND) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Laura HOSKIN (NZL) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Bree Arthur (AUS) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Emma Nilsson (SWE) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Dulcie Sverdloff (ENG) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
EunJung Ji (KOR) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Elmay Viking (COK) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Charlotte Thompson (ENG) | 6 |
78 |
131 |
Anne-charlotte Mora (FRA) | 6 |
78 |
142 |
Amy Boulden (WAL) | 7 |
79 |
142 |
Hannah Hellyer (USA) | 7 |
79 |
142 |
Cloe Frankish (ENG) | 7 |
79 |
142 |
Soo Jin Lee (AUS) | 7 |
79 |
142 |
Stina Resen (NOR) | 7 |
79 |
142 |
Miki Nishiyama (JPN) | 7 |
79 |
148 |
Justine Dreher (FRA) | 8 |
80 |
148 |
Georgia Iziemgbe Oboh (NGR) | 8 |
80 |
148 |
Camille Chevalier (FRA) | 8 |
80 |
148 |
Koto Ishiyama (JPN) | 8 |
80 |
148 |
Marta Martin (ESP) | 8 |
80 |
153 |
Adele Douglas (AUS) (a) | 9 |
81 |
153 |
Natasha Fear (ESP) | 9 |
81 |
155 |
Gabriella Cowley (ENG) | 11 |
83 |
156 |
Adele Huggard (AUS) | 17 |
89 |
