Lauren Coughlin leading by two at the Chevron Championship

Defending champion Lilia Vu withdrew moments before tee-off due to a back injury.

Lauren Coughlin shot an opening 66 at the Chevron Championship in Texas on Thursday taking the first-round lead for just the second time in her career.

Coughlin went bogey-free with three birdies on the front nine and three on the back nine on the first day of the tournament.

She hit 14 of 18 greens, recorded 10 one-putts and needed just 26 putts overall to get through her first round.

“I think my husband and I had a really good game plan, and I wasn’t trying to be too aggressive out there. Just trying to take a 30-footer or, I might have a chip here or there, just knowing that that’s the appropriate place to be,” she said.

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Her husband, John Pond, recently started caddying for her.

She added: “Not trying to be too aggressive in certain spots and taking what, certainly there’s some holes, good pins and stuff that you can go at stuff, but overall, I was just trying to take what it would give me and not trying to force anything.

Coughlin is making her 11th appearance in an LPGA Tour major championship this week. The American has made the cut in just two of her 10 previous starts in majors, but finished T15 and T16, respectively, in the 2023 and 2022 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

Two strokes behind Coughlin are two-time LPGA Tour winner Marina Alex, eight-time JLPGA winner Minami Katsu and major champion Nelly Korda, who is chasing her fifth win in as many consecutive starts on Tour.

Defending champion Lilia Vu withdrew from the Chevron Championship moments before her first-round tee-off on Thursday due to a back injury.

Pos.PlayerTo ParR1
1Lauren Coughlin-666
T2Nelly Korda-468
T2Marina Alex-468
T2Minami Katsu-468
T5Gabriela Ruffels-369
T5Jin Hee Im-369
T5Lydia Ko-369
T5Atthaya Thitikul-369
T5Xiyu Lin-369
T10Sarah Kemp-270
T10Jodi Ewart Shadoff-270
T10Georgia Hall-270
T10Anna Nordqvist-270
T10Jenny Shin-270
T10Maja Stark-270
T10Lindy Duncan-270
T10Kristen Gillman-270
T18Madelene Sagstrom-171
T18Lottie Woad (a)-171
T18Nasa Hataoka-171
T18Chanettee Wannasaen-171
T18Akie Iwai-171
T18Brooke Henderson-171
T18Andrea Lee-171
T18Mi Hyang Lee-171
T18Ayaka Furue-171
T18Olivia Cowan-171
T18Caroline Inglis-171
T18Yealimi Noh-171
T18Stephanie Meadow-171
T31Karis DavidsonPar72
T31Weiwei ZhangPar72
T31Miyu YamashitaPar72
T31Stephanie KyriacouPar72
T31Hae Ran RyuPar72
T31Allisen CorpuzPar72
T31Esther HenseleitPar72
T31Jennifer KupchoPar72
T31Jiyai ShinPar72
T31Yu LiuPar72
T31Auston KimPar72
T31Ryann O'ToolePar72
T31Caroline MassonPar72
T31Brittany LincicomePar72
T31Leona MaguirePar72
T31Sei Young KimPar72
T31Alexa PanoPar72
T31Yuka SasoPar72
T31Jeongeun Lee6Par72
T31Yu Jin SungPar72
T31Isabella FierroPar72
T31A Lim KimPar72
T31Wei-Ling HsuPar72
T54Malia Nam+173
T54Narin An+173
T54Celine Borge+173
T54Hye-Jin Choi+173
T54Cheyenne Knight+173
T54Amy Yang+173
T54Peiyun Chien+173
T54In Gee Chun+173
T54Matilda Castren+173
T54Yan Liu+173
T54Hee Young Park+173
T54Megan Schofill (a)+173
T54Robyn Choi+173
T54Mao Saigo+173
T68Moriya Jutanugarn+274
T68Ruixin Liu+274
T68Xiaowen Yin+274
T68Danielle Kang+274
T68Nanna Koerstz Madsen+274
T68Charley Hull+274
T68Mone Inami+274
T68Angela Stanford+274
T68Minjee Lee+274
T68Ruoning Yin+274
T68Stacy Lewis+274
T68Rose Zhang+274
T68Ally Ewing+274
T68Yuna Nishimura+274
T68Shinsil Bang+274
T68Gemma Dryburgh+274
T68Jasmine Koo (a)+274
T68Gaby Lopez+274
T86Aditi Ashok+375
T86Polly Mack+375
T86Albane Valenzuela+375
T86Celine Boutier+375
T86Hyo Joo Kim+375
T86Eun-Hee Ji+375
T86Lucy Li+375
T86Carlota Ciganda+375
T86Maria Fassi+375
T86Lindsey Weaver-Wright+375
T86Pernilla Lindberg+375
T86Yana Wilson (a)+375
T86Linn Grant+375
T86Sarah Schmelzel+375
T86Elizabeth Szokol+375
T101So Mi Lee+476
T101Paula Reto+476
T101Azahara Munoz+476
T101Lizette Salas+476
T101Savannah Grewal+476
T101Sophia Popov+476
T101Jasmine Suwannapura+476
T101Hinako Shibuno+476
T101Grace Kim+476
T101Jin Young Ko+476
T101Megan Khang+476
T101Bailey Tardy+476
T101Ariya Jutanugarn+476
T101Isi Gabsa+476
T115Ela Anacona (a)+577
T115Trichat Cheenglab+577
T115Perrine Delacour+577
T115Hannah Green+577
T115Chun-wei Wu (a)+577
T115So Yeon Ryu+577
T115Patty Tavatanakit+577
T122Alison Lee+678
T122Pajaree Anannarukarn+678
T122Yani Tseng+678
T122Hira Naveed+678
T122Lexi Thompson+678
T122Angel Yin+678
128Emily Kristine Pedersen+779
129Bianca Pagdanganan+880
T130Jennifer Song+981
T130Linnea Strom+981
132Ashleigh Buhai+1183
Updated: April 19, 2024
Chevron Championship 2024
Date: 18th April - 21st April, 2024
Location: The Club at Carlton Woods, The Woodlands, Texas
Purse: $7.9 million