{"id":1244563,"date":"2023-05-12T06:58:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=1244563"},"modified":"2023-05-13T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T11:36:20","slug":"cognizant-founders-cup-2023-r1-sei-young-kim-takes-opening-lead-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/cognizant-founders-cup-2023-r1-sei-young-kim-takes-opening-lead-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei Young Kim takes opening lead in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12-time LPGA Tour winner Sei Young Kim got off to a blazing start at the 2023 Cognizant Founders Cup, firing a bogey-free 6-under 66 on Thursday, including a streak of four consecutive birdies at 12, 13, 14 and 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean superstar already has a Founders title to her name, capturing the 2016 edition held in Arizona, and is now aiming for her first LPGA Tour victory since 2020\u2019s The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis course is (one of my) favorite courses,\u201d said Kim. \u201cThis course has kind of lot of trees on both sides, and keeping (the ball in) the fairway, it's really important this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The title could be anyone&#39;s after the first round of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPGAfounders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LPGAfounders<\/a> \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dafOte1bkb\">pic.twitter.com\/dafOte1bkb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LPGA (@LPGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPGA\/status\/1656829795156779009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LPGA Tour rookie Hae Ran Ryu, also from South Korea, holds solo second at 5-under, carding eight birdies and three bogeys in her opening round. Sitting at 1-under through 11 holes, Ryu went on the same tear as Kim, dropping birdies at 12, 13, 14 and 15 to vault up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, who has five victories on the KLPGA Tour, is looking for her breakthrough moment on the LPGA Tour after earning medalist honors at the 2022 Q-Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the very first (event) I have really low confidence and I'm always draw a question mark myself, (if) I can do my best or I can do it well,\u201d said Ryu, whose best finish in 2023 is a tie for sixth at the JM Eagle LA Championship. \u201cBut after the tournament and after the rounds I'm getting more confidence at the tour, and from now, I'm really doing well I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_link_1244517\" class=\"ct-div-block content-link_wrap\"><a class=\"ct-link content-link_image-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/upper-montclairs-tradition-the-clifton-connection\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UpperMontclair_Aerial14_09-21_HighResImage-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-link_image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Upper Montclair&#039;s tradition &amp; the Clifton connection\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UpperMontclair_Aerial14_09-21_HighResImage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UpperMontclair_Aerial14_09-21_HighResImage-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UpperMontclair_Aerial14_09-21_HighResImage-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"ct-div-block content-link_content\"><a class=\"ct-link\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/upper-montclairs-tradition-the-clifton-connection\/\"><h5 class=\"ct-headline content-link_title\"><strong>Related:<\/strong> Upper Montclair's tradition &#038; the Clifton connection<\/h5><\/a><div class=\"ct-text-block content-link_text\">LPGA Cognizant Founders Cup returns this week<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Nine players are tied for third at 4-under, including defending champion Minjee Lee of Australia and two-time Founders champion Jin Young Ko of South Korea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did that not go in?!<\/p>\n<p>Atthaya Thitikul will finish her round tied with the clubhouse lead after this near hole-out \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YHm8S3T4m1\">pic.twitter.com\/YHm8S3T4m1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LPGA (@LPGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPGA\/status\/1656702712896196610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Others in the pack at 4-under are U.S. Solheim Cup captain and 2013 Founders winner Stacy Lewis; Thailand's Atthaya Thitikul; The Chevron Championship\u2019s first-round leader Peiyun Chien from Taiwan; and South Korean Hye-Jin Choi, who carded eagles on two of her first four holes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHit a lot of good shots today that ended up on the fringe so the stats maybe don't show the ball striking. I think (stats) showed I only hit 12 greens, but probably putted four or five times from the fringe,\u201d said Lewis. \u201cSo the misses were really good, and just took what the course gave me and took advantage of the par-5s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rolex Women\u2019s World Golf Rankings No. 1 Nelly Korda (USA) is tied for 45th after an even-par 72 on Thursday<a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/jordan-spieth-suffers-injury-in-bid-for-grand-slam-as-us-pga-returns-to-oak-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a> Korda\u2019s caddie this week is Joe LaCava, the former looper for Tiger Woods who recently started working with Patrick Cantlay<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a> Jason McDede, Korda\u2019s regular caddie, is out on paternity leave and will return at her next LPGA Tour event, the Mizuho Americas Open.<\/p>\n<parone-video-block feed=\"8-article-feed\" env=\"prod\" stylesheet=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/octopress-extras\/assets\/css\/parone.css\" autoplay=\"true\" autoplaymuted=\"true\" defaultlang=\"en\" hide-all=\"false\" hide-title=\"true\" hide-logo=\"true\" hide-description=\"true\"  content-key=\"9a7cfDd6191e0ffB3DFd\"  ><\/parone-video-block>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant Founders Cup R1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1244568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[7328,88,2976,723,3853,89,90,91,92,903,94,7335,2888],"class_list":["post-1244563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lpga","category-the_tours","tag-clifton","tag-golf-news","tag-ladies-golf","tag-lpga","tag-new-jersey","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-results","tag-scores","tag-sei-young-kim","tag-tournament","tag-upper-montclair-cc","tag-womens-golf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.3 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - 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