May 23-26
Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia
$1,300,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Bronte Law sits in a three-way tie for the lead after shooting a six-under 65 on the opening day of the Pure Silk Championship in Williamsburg.

The Englishwoman, starting on the back nine, overcame the windy conditions to chip in an eagle on the par-five third and complete the first round without a single bogey.

Speaking after her round, the 24-year-old credited the eagle putt for getting her game going.

"It took me a while to make my first birdie," she told LPGA website.

"I was playing steady and wasn't hitting the ball as well as I would have hoped but I made some good par saves here and there from some long putts and then just started to find my groove a little bit.

"I made an eagle on the third hole, which was my back side, and from there kind of started to pick it up a little and started finding myself with a good score.

"There's nothing more to it. On days like this when it's windy, you've just got to keep grinding all day, and you take the chances when they come, and I did a pretty good job of that today."

American Jennifer Song also enjoyed a blemish-free round for a share of the lead alongside Law and Anna Nordqvist , who recovered from a bogey on the third to pick up shots on the seventh, ninth and 10th holes before running off four straight birdies through holes 13 to 16.

Scotland's Gemma Dryburgh sits in the chasing pack alongside Brooke Henderson, Katherine Perry, Jacqui Concolino and Jasmine Suwannapura at five under, while defending champion Ariya Jutanugarn finished in joint 65th place after an even-par 71.

Quick Hits

Defending Pure Silk Championship winner Ariya Jutanugarn shot an opening-round 71 on Thursday.

The eight players tied for fourth or better represent six different countries: U.S., Sweden, England, Thailand, Scotland, Canada.

64 of the 144 players in the field fired rounds under par on Thursday at the Kingsmill Resort.

Louise Stahle was the last player to gain entry into the Pure Silk Championship when Sei Young Kim withdrew on Wednesday afternoon, and fired a 3-under 68 in the first round, her best round since carding a 68 at the 2010 Navistar LPGA Classic.

The first reshuffle of the 2019 LPGA Tour season will happen after the conclusion of this week's Pure Silk Championship presented by Visit Williamsburg. Category 8 on the LPGA Priority List will comprise of members in the Top 80 of the current year's Money List with priority based on the order of the list. In addition, Members in categories 14 through 19 who have earned official money will be re-seeded into Category 13 and ranked in order of their position on the current year's Money List through the Pure Silk Championship.