Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions R1

January 21-24
Four Season Golf & Sports Club, Orlando, Florida
$1,200,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Danielle Kang fired a bogey-free, 7-under 64 on Thursday to take a one-shot lead over Jessica and Nelly Korda and defending champion Gaby Lopez in Orlando.

“I think my short game was really good today,” said Kang. “I had a lot of feel and touch around the greens.”

Kang made the most of the shortened season last year and won two consecutive titles in Ohio after the Tour resumed at the Marathon LPGA Classic and the LPGA Drive On Championship.

She has had to quarantine twice recently after being exposed to the virus and only arrived in Orlando late Monday night after testing negative six times.

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Jessica Korda was 7-under at the turn and held the lead for most of the day before her sister Nelly overtook her with a late run of birdies and an eagle at the 17th.

Jessica admitted to using Nelly’s position on the leaderboard as motivation to drain her birdie putt on 18.

“I saw her on the leaderboard. I was putting like towards the leaderboard on 18 or 9. I was like, Dang, I got to make this. Glad I did,” she said laughing.

Stacy Lewis and Brittany Lincicome are tied in fifth place at 5-under.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Danielle Kang	-7	64
T2	Nelly Korda	-6	65
T2	Jessica Korda	-6	65
T2	Gaby Lopez	-6	65
T5	Stacy Lewis	-5	66
T5	Brittany Lincicome	-5	66
T7	Brooke M. Henderson	-4	67
T7	Angela Stanford	-4	67
T7	Lexi Thompson	-4	67
T10	In Gee Chun	-3	68
T10	Sophia Popov	-3	68
T12	Celine Boutier	-2	69
T12	Austin Ernst	-2	69
T12	Cheyenne Knight	-2	69
T12	Annie Park	-2	69
T16	Ally Ewing	-1	70
T16	Georgia Hall	-1	70
T16	Pernilla Lindberg	-1	70
T16	Mel Reid	-1	70
T20	Mi Jung Hur	E	71
T20	Hee Young Park	E	71
22	Jasmine Suwannapura	1	72
T23	Bronte Law	2	73
T23	Madelene Sagstrom	2	73
25	Cydney Clanton	4	75