Major champions Hannah Green and Grace Kim and rising star Cassie Porter have led a promising Australian challenge to start the LPGA Thailand.<\/p>\n
Green, Kim and Porter all carded first-round five-under-par 67s at the Siam Country Club to be tied sixth in Pattaya.<\/p>\n
Green was labouring along at even par through 10 holes before bursting to life and reeling off five birdies on the inward nine.<\/p>\n
In contrasting fashion, after opening her round with an eagle three, the 23-year-old Porter drained four birdies in a hot start to more than offset her lone bogey on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Fellow Sydneysider Grace Kim, the reigning Evian Champion champ, also mixed six birdies with a bogey to join the pair at five under.<\/p>\n
The trio, along with Thai world No.1 Jeeno Thitikul, is two shots behind Japan’s Nasa Hataoka, who had eight birdies in a sizzling round of 65, and home hope Chanette Wannasaen.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh and South Koreans Hye-Jin Choi and Somi Lee all notched first-round 66s to share third spot at the $US1.8 million ($A2.6 million) event which kick-starts the LPGA Tour’s Asian swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major champions Hannah Green and Grace Kim and rising star Cassie Porter have led a promising Australian challenge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-489773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}