Charley Hull made a bogey-free begin to her Girls European Tour season to take a seat 4 pictures off the early lead on the PIF Saudi Girls Worldwide.
Hull, making her first LET look since profitable the Aramco Staff Collection occasion in Riyadh final November, registered three birdies in an opening-round 69 at Riyadh Golf Membership.
The Englishwoman made a two-putt birdie on the par-five fifth and picked up one other shot on the par-four seventh, with Hull ending a run of pars by birdieing the par-four final to get to 3 below.
Charley Hull is 4 strokes off the early lead in Saudi Arabia as she chases a primary win of 2025
Hull sits tied-Twentieth after the opening day of the three-day event and is in contact with early chief Somi Lee, who blended eight birdies with a lone bogey to set the tempo with a seven-under 65.
“I feel very good,” Lee stated. “Last year, I had a problem with my shots, so that was the part I focused on during the winter training. It worked pretty well, so I’m very happy about it.”
Somi Lee holds a one-shot lead after the opening day
Lee posted 4 birdies in a five-hole stretch across the flip and birdied every of her final three holes to edge forward of a congested leaderboard, with Solheim Cup participant Esther Henseleit a shot again in tied-second alongside England’s Annabell Fuller.
Henseleit and Fuller each made bogey-free begins to the week, whereas world No 4 Jeeno Thitikul is within the logjam sharing fourth spot on 5 below and former Solheim Cup participant Anne Van Dam is three off the tempo.
“I just hit it pretty consistently today, I struck my irons nicely and luckily, I holed a couple of putts,” Fuller stated. “On the par-five, I had a tap-in birdie so that was pretty stress free.”
Cara Gainer – who claimed her maiden LET title on the Lalla Meryem Cup final week – began with a one-under 71.
Within the 36-hole crew competitors, working alongside the person occasion, Stephanie Kyriacou’s crew holds a one-shot benefit over Lee’s crew. The perfect two scores on every gap from a four-player crew rely in the direction of the rating, with Kyriacou’s aspect ending the day on 18 below.
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