{"id":108608,"date":"2025-08-30T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108608\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:59:15","slug":"major-champs-allisen-corpuz-sei-young-kim-share-lead-with-jodi-ewart-shadoff-at-fm-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108608\/","title":{"rendered":"Major champs Allisen Corpuz, Sei Young Kim share lead with Jodi Ewart Shadoff at FM Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORTON, Mass. \u2014 Allisen Corpuz kept her patience while spinning her wheels for so much of the year and finally saw some good results Thursday when she opened the FM Championship with a 7-under 65 to share the first-round lead with Sei Young Kim and Jodi Ewart Shadoff.<\/p>\n

Corpuz had four birdies on her last six holes at the TPC Boston, holing a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-4 ninth to catch Kim, who played in calmer conditions in the morning.<\/p>\n

Nelly Korda switched putters to more of a blade and saw it pay off with seven birdies in a round of 67 in her debut on the TPC Boston course that previously hosted one of the four PGA Tour postseason events.<\/p>\n

Corpuz has only one LPGA victory and it was a big one \u2014 the U.S. Women\u2019s Open at Pebble Beach two years ago. She had a pair of top 10s early in the year, including a third in the Ford Championship in Phoenix in late March. That was her last top 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust feel like golf is such a funny game,\u201d Corpuz said. \u201cEven if it hasn\u2019t been the results that I wanted to see, it\u2019s just felt really, really close all season. It was a good start to the season and kind of just feel like things are starting to turn the corner a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shadoff, a former tour winner who has struggled this season, birdied her final four holes Thursday to join the top.<\/p>\n

Kim played in the morning when the weather was slightly cooler and she wondered if that would make the course play longer with the golf ball not flying as much. But she birdied three of the par 5s until having to settle for a par on the closing hole that has a large ditch in front of the green and big swales around it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what tripped up Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand in her second start since returning to No. 1 in the women\u2019s world ranking. She blasted a tee shot down the right side, but her approach on the par-5 18th missed left and went down that steep slope. Her first pitch came up short and rolled back to her feet, and the Thai took a bogey for a 69.<\/p>\n

Two stories have been in play all year on the LPGA \u2014 22 consecutive tournaments to start the year with different winners at each one, and Korda not winning any of them. Korda is coming off a seven-win 2024 and only two weeks ago lost the No. 1 ranking to Thitikul.<\/p>\n

Her 67 left her in a log jam of players tied for third that included Women\u2019s PGA champion Minjee Lee, Celine Boutier, Andrea Lee and Gurleen Kaur, the LPGA rookie who had to go through Monday qualifying to get into the field.<\/p>\n

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Nelly Korda made seven birdies and two bogeys Thursday at TPC Boston to shoot 67 and sit two off the early lead in the FM Championship.<\/p>\n

Korda said the Florida courses where she lives aren\u2019t in the best shape in the hot summer, so she wasn\u2019t sure what she thought of the putter at home. But she took it to Canada, liked how it felt and kept it in the bag. It\u2019s a similar model to the one she was using last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust something new,\u201d Korda said, who also went with a different grip on the putter. \u201cI knew I had so much success with that kind of putter and felt confident with it. Just needed to feel something different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTON, Mass. \u2014 Allisen Corpuz kept her patience while spinning her wheels for so much of the year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-108608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}