{"id":819997,"date":"2026-07-24T03:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819997\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T03:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:09:15","slug":"lauren-coughlin-and-jenny-shin-seize-scottish-open-first-round-lead-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819997\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Coughlin and Jenny Shin seize Scottish Open first-round lead \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Coughlin and Jenny Shin share the opening-round lead at the women\u2019s Scottish Open, but it was a mostly forgettable day for the Aussies.<\/p>\n<p>American Lauren Coughlin and South Korea\u2019s Jenny Shin have fired six-under-par 66s to share the Scottish Open first-round lead at Dundonald Links.<\/p>\n<p>Coughlin, \u200cwho won the Scottish Open in 2024, compiled eight birdies and two bogeys on a links \u200ccourse that didn\u2019t play like normal due to Europe\u2019s recent heat wave.<\/p>\n<p>But it was a day to forget for Australia\u2019s Minjee Lee, who signed for a 13-over 85 including seven bogeys and three double-bogeys, leaving the multiple major winner in a tie for second-last place.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/agd-live-cleeks-gc-captain-martin-kaymer-says-its-highly-unlikely-next-months-team-championship-will-go-ahead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2022 AGD LIVE FEED \u2022 Watch Charley Hull putt for birdie and walk off with a NINE(!) at Women\u2019s Scottish Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/download-3-3-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150121\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">[AP PHOTO] Minjee Lee hit only three fairways in a horror first round at the Scottish Open. <\/p>\n<p>Co-leader Coughlin admitted it was tough going for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty difficult out \u200cthere,\u201d said the American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not ever really played it when it\u2019s been this firm, especially off the tee, so quite a few different things off the tee than normal where I used to be able to hit the driver a lot of places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shin, who started on the \u200cback nine like \u200cCoughlin, posted \u2060seven birdies on the day \u2013 including birdies at her first three \u200bpar-5s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s playing a little shorter than the years past when it was quite wet out here,\u201d Shin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the fact I was able to reach the par-5s and take advantage of making the birdies there, and having a few 58-degree (wedges) coming into the green helped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was \u2060able to get my ball within 15 feet \u200cand when \u200bI did have the chance for birdie, I did make it. So it was \u200ba good day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Korea\u2019s \u200cA Lim Kim sits one shot behind at 67 while Sweden\u2019s Lisa Pettersson (69) \u200bposted the day\u2019s only other sub-70 score in the 144-golfer field.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 1 Nelly Korda posted a 72 to share 14th place after one round.<\/p>\n<p>Playing \u200bin \u200bthe same group as Korda, defending \u200bchampion Lottie Woad of England got off to \u200ca poor start with a double bogey on No. 3 and a bogey on No. 4 before settling down for a 74.<\/p>\n<p>Major winners Grace Kim and Hannah Green (both 74) were the best of the Australian contingent in a tie for 33rd, two strokes ahead of Cassie Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Scottish-born Karis Davidson and Robyn Choi both shot 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Coughlin and Jenny Shin share the opening-round lead at the women\u2019s Scottish Open, but it was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,121139,755,29528,29527,146409,20776,44,85,20038],"class_list":["post-819997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-golf-digest","tag-golf","tag-grace-kim","tag-hannah-green","tag-lauren-coughlin","tag-minjee-lee","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-womens-scottish-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819997","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=819997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}