Lottie Woad made a disappointing begin as she carded a two-over 73 within the first spherical on the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
The 21-year-old Englishwoman had an up-and-down spherical after beginning on the tenth gap at Pinnacle Nation Membership, carding three birdies and 5 bogeys, together with three successive dropped photographs from the twelfth and back-to-back bogeys on the fourth and fifth.
There was higher information for Eire’s Leona Maguire, who shot a seven-under-par 64 to place herself firmly in competition.
Maguire didn’t drop a shot in her spherical and a run of 5 birdies in seven holes noticed her cost into competition on the prime of the sphere, a stroke behind early joint-leaders Minami Katsu and Sarah Schmelzel.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff carded a three-under 68 however was left to rue a bogey on the par-four sixteenth which was the one blemish on an in any other case good spherical.
A double-bogey seven on the 14th was costly for Caley McGinty, for whom two birdies elsewhere on her card ensured she signed for an even-par spherical and joint 103rd.
World No 2 Nelly Korda shot a two-under-par 69.
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