LA SELLA, Spain \u2013 Canada\u2019s Anna Huang carded a bogey-free eight-under 64 on Thursday to take the opening-round lead at the La Sella Open, a Ladies European Tour event in Denia, Spain. <\/p>\n
The 16-year-old from Vancouver sits two shots ahead of a pair at six-under, that includes France\u2019s Natasia Nadaud and Germany\u2019s Leonie Harm. <\/p>\n
Huang, who turned professional earlier this year after coming through qualifying school, is in her rookie LET season. She has already posted multiple top-20 results, but this marks the first time she has topped the leaderboard in a tour event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just tried to stay patient out there and stick to my routines,\u201d Huang said. \u201cThe putts started dropping and I was able to keep a clean card, which always feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huang\u2019s round featured eight birdies, with no bogeys. Her strong start continues a breakthrough year for the teenager, who also won final qualifying for the AIG Women\u2019s Open earlier this summer.<\/p>\n
Chasing her at eight under are a cluster of experienced competitors, while a larger group sits two shots back at six under. With three rounds still to play, the leaderboard is tightly packed.<\/p>\n
The La Sella Open continues through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA SELLA, Spain \u2013 Canada\u2019s Anna Huang carded a bogey-free eight-under 64 on Thursday to take the opening-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-153172","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\/153172","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=153172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}