EVIAN- LES- BAINS, France (AP) — South Korean teen Hyo-Joo Kim made history with the lowest round in a major tournament, a faultless 10-under 61 to open the Evian Championship.
According to the U.S. LPGA Tour, two women scored 62: Minea Blomqvist of Finland in the third round of the 2004 British Open, and Lorena Ochoa in the first round of the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship. In a men’s major, 63 is the lowest, and it has been achieved multiple times.
Kim takes a four-shot lead over veteran Karrie Webb into the second round.
Meanwhile, Michelle Wie’s bid for a second major ended early as she retired after just 13 holes, clearly still feeling the effects of a recent finger injury.
Korean Mi-Jung Hur was five behind Kim in third after a round of 66, while defending champion Suzann Pettersen of Norway and Brittany Lincicome of the U.S. were six behind.
Web.com Tour
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Derek Fathauer shot a bogey-free 8-under 63 to take the first-round lead in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, the third of four events in the Web.com Tour Finals.
Fathauer, 12th on the Web.com Tour’s regular-season money list to secure a 2014-15 PGA Tour card, birdied Nos. 15-17 and closed with a par on Ohio State’s Scarlet Course.
European Tour
ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) — Defending champion Joost Luiten fired a 5-under-par 65 to take a shared clubhouse lead at the KLM Open after a first round interrupted when Fabrizio Zanotti was hit on the forehead by a wayward tee shot.
Zanotti was driven off the course in an ambulance for checks at a nearby hospital after being hit while playing the 16th. He later tweeted he was discharged from the hospital and would be taking “a couple of weeks off.
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