Jun 2, 2024; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA; Arpichaya Yubol (THA) acknowledges the group on the 1st tee through the ultimate spherical of the U.S. Ladies’s Open golf event. Necessary Credit score: John Jones-Imagn Photos Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol carded a bogey-free 8-under-par 64 on Thursday to safe a one-stroke lead after the primary spherical of the LPGA’s Shanghai event.
Yubol birdied her first three holes and added one other on the par-4 sixth gap on the Qizhong Backyard Golf Membership. She did not let up on the flip, amassing a birdie on Nos. 12, 14, 16 and 17 to notch her lowest spherical of the 2025 season, besting the 66 she recorded within the first spherical at The Normal Portland Basic.
“I believe my putter is (working) at this time after which my brief sport, some holes I hit like near make (a) probability to make birdie,” Yubol stated. “This week like I attempt to belief myself extra for my iron. Usually I hit draw however this time I hit just a little bit like minimize fade. … Like usually I goal to the appropriate however this time I goal to the left and simply belief myself after which simply preserve going.”
Yubol, 23, is in search of her first victory on the LPGA Tour. She has 9 profession wins on the Thai LPGA Tour and one on the Taiwan LPGA Tour. She missed the minimize in her final begin on the Lotte Championship.
Yubol holds a one-stroke lead over a five-golfer contingent. Rolex Rankings No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand totaled 10 birdies within the first spherical together with 4 in a row on Nos. 5-8 and three straight on Nos. 13-15.
Three-time main champion Minjee Lee of Australia benefited from using her broomstick putter to affix Thitikul, rookie Jenny Bae and South Koreans Jenny Shinn and Ina Yoon by taking pictures a 65 on Thursday.
“Yeah, I believe I simply haven’t got as a lot stress with it. Clearly it is freed me up so much and offers me so much freedom to stroke the putt,” Lee stated of her putter.
“If that’s — if it goes within the gap or would not, like so long as I put a great stroke on it I’ve no different management outdoors of that. So I believe by way of the precise fundamentals of it it is fairly easy, so I identical to the truth that it’s.”
Newbie Menghan Li made a hole-in-one on No. 11 with an 8 iron.
Li is tied for twenty seventh place after taking pictures a 70, one stroke forward of defending champion and fellow China native Ruoning Yin.
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