Lee and Kupcho had been some of the early starters and took good thing about the sunny morning stipulations to peak the leaderboard after the primary day.
“It was once highest,” Lee mentioned to the LPGA, following her bogey-free spherical. “No longer like a breath of wind once we performed. Perhaps only a tiny bit however stipulations are nice. Placing vegetables are rolling actual great. I don’t believe you’ll be able to recuperate than that.”
“I’ve one main underneath my belt, however I need a little bit bit extra,” Lee added, relating to her first main win on the Evian Championship ultimate 12 months.
“I simply assume I’ve a little bit bit extra trust in myself and my recreation so I will be able to be a little bit bit extra comfy simply hitting the photographs that I make a selection.”
Kupcho has but to win an LPGA Excursion Identify despite the fact that she has been in rivalry time and again, recording 5 top-10 finishes in 2021, together with a runner-up end on the LPGA Power On Championship.
“Truthfully, I feel it is simply being comfy in this golfing path,” Kupcho instructed the LPGA. “I am getting right here and I simply, I believe comfy. I like this position.”
She started her spherical in some taste, getting 9 birdies within the first 14 holes, prior to two consecutive bogies at the fifteenth and sixteenth holes tempered her momentum.
Ko additionally hit two bogies all over her uncharacteristically wayward opening spherical to complete the day in a tie for 78th position, and finish her record-breaking streak of 34 consecutive LGPA rounds underneath par.
“I used to be hitting quite a lot of nice photographs, however my placing wasn’t just right,” she mentioned to the LPGA. “I could not see the wreck as a lot or velocity. The whole lot was once mistaken.”
3 extra rounds will make a decision this 12 months’s Chevron Championship winner — the ultimate winner to be topped at Challenge Hills Nation Membership because the event is shifting to Houston subsequent 12 months underneath a handle Chevron.
