LPGA Tour Championship 2021 R1
November 18-21
Tiburón Golf Club, Naples, Florida
$5,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4
Leader in the clubhouse 👏
— LPGA (@LPGA) November 18, 2021
Jeongeun Lee6 fires a first round 64 at the @CMEGroupLPGA pic.twitter.com/J6cQ7ehw7w
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Jeongeun Lee6 opened with a bogey-free 64 to take the lead at the CME Group Tour Championship on Thursday, hitting every fairway and green in regulation.
LPGA Tour Championship 2021 R1
“I had a good time today. My goal was free (of) bogeys, so, yeah, I achieved it. My feel is getting better, so my goal is to win once this year, but unfortunately just one tournament left. I’m going to try my best.”
It’s the fourth time in her career on the LPGA Tour that the South Korean player has hit every green in regulation but the first she has hit every fairway in the same round.
LPGA Tour Championship 2021 R1
2019 champion Sei Young Kim, of South Korea, lies one shot back in a share of second place alongside France’s Celine Boutier and Americans Mina Harigae and Jennifer Kupcho, all three bogey-free.
“Honestly, I feel like the course was just set up pretty easy. Preparing for rain moved a lot of tees up, as well as put the pins right in the middle of the green I feel like so it was pretty attackable,” said Kupcho. “I wasn’t hitting it really well but made a lot of putts.”
LPGA Tour Championship 2021 R1
Kim holds the longest active streak on Tour for consecutive seasons with a win and is hoping to increase it to seven.
Eight players are tied in sixth place at 6-under including World Number 1 and last week’s winner Nelly Korda.
“I think I just struck it really well. I gave myself some good looks inside 10 feet,” said Korda. “Two oopsies with two three-putts, but I think I hit a majority of the greens and gave myself some really good looks.”
.@ROLEX Rankings #1 @NellyKorda is two strokes off the lead after a first-round 66 at the @CMEGroupLPGA 👇 pic.twitter.com/H7fUdRHPWS
— LPGA (@LPGA) November 18, 2021
LPGA Tour Championship 2021 R1
Pos. |
Player | To Par |
R1 |
1 |
Jeongeun Lee6 | -8 |
64 |
T2 |
Sei Young Kim | -7 |
65 |
T2 |
Celine Boutier | -7 |
65 |
T2 |
Mina Harigae | -7 |
65 |
T2 |
Jennifer Kupcho | -7 |
65 |
T6 |
Nelly Korda | -6 |
66 |
T6 |
Jasmine Suwannapura | -6 |
66 |
T6 |
Minjee Lee | -6 |
66 |
T6 |
Yuka Saso | -6 |
66 |
T6 |
So Yeon Ryu | -6 |
66 |
T6 |
Hannah Green | -6 |
66 |
T6 |
Wei-Ling Hsu | -6 |
66 |
T6 |
Gaby Lopez | -6 |
66 |
T14 |
Lexi Thompson | -5 |
67 |
T14 |
Eun-Hee Ji | -5 |
67 |
T14 |
Leona Maguire | -5 |
67 |
T14 |
Megan Khang | -5 |
67 |
T14 |
Georgia Hall | -5 |
67 |
T19 |
Patty Tavatanakit | -4 |
68 |
T19 |
Jessica Korda | -4 |
68 |
T19 |
Su Oh | -4 |
68 |
T19 |
Ally Ewing | -4 |
68 |
T19 |
Nanna Koerstz Madsen | -4 |
68 |
T19 |
Anna Nordqvist | -4 |
68 |
T25 |
Jin Young Ko | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Lydia Ko | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Chella Choi | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Nasa Hataoka | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Charley Hull | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Xiyu Lin | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Lauren Stephenson | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Brittany Altomare | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Stacy Lewis | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Hyo Joo Kim | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
In Gee Chun | -3 |
69 |
T25 |
Madelene Sagstrom | -3 |
69 |
T37 |
Wichanee Meechai | -2 |
70 |
T37 |
Emma Talley | -2 |
70 |
T37 |
Carlota Ciganda | -2 |
70 |
T37 |
Moriya Jutanugarn | -2 |
70 |
T37 |
Lizette Salas | -2 |
70 |
T37 |
Matilda Castren | -2 |
70 |
T37 |
Esther Henseleit | -2 |
70 |
T44 |
Ariya Jutanugarn | -1 |
71 |
T44 |
Brooke M. Henderson | -1 |
71 |
T44 |
Yu Liu | -1 |
71 |
T44 |
Danielle Kang | -1 |
71 |
T44 |
A Lim Kim | -1 |
71 |
T44 |
Caroline Masson | -1 |
71 |
T44 |
Elizabeth Szokol | -1 |
71 |
T51 |
Jenny Shin | Par |
72 |
T51 |
Austin Ernst | Par |
72 |
T51 |
Yealimi Noh | Par |
72 |
T51 |
Ryann O’Toole | Par |
72 |
T51 |
Amy Yang | Par |
72 |
T56 |
Jenny Coleman | +1 |
73 |
T56 |
Pajaree Anannarukarn | +1 |
73 |
58 |
Amy Olson | +2 |
74 |
59 |
Sophia Popov | +5 |
77 |
60 |
Angel Yin | +7 |
79 |
