{"id":579079,"date":"2026-04-03T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579079\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:03:10","slug":"aramco-championship-hyo-joo-kim-nelly-korda-one-shot-off-lead-after-first-round-of-lpga-tour-event-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579079\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramco Championship: Hyo Joo Kim, Nelly Korda one shot off lead after first round of LPGA Tour event | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lauren Coughlin showed her familiarity with Shadow Creek by opening with a five-under 67, putting her in a three-way tie for the lead Thursday with Nasa Hataoka and Women’s British Open champion Miyu Yamashita in the Aramco Championship.<\/p>\n

Coughlin played 127 holes last year at Shadow Creek when the tournament was match play, with every match going at least the distance, where she was runner-up to Madelene Sagstrom.<\/p>\n

The Aramco Championship is co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour with a total purse this week of $4m, which has attracted the top 20 players in the world.<\/p>\n

Nelly Korda and Hyo Joo Kim are side by side, again, at least on the scoreboard. Korda made eagle on the par five 18th for a 68, while Kim made bogey on her opening hole and didn’t drop another shot the rest of the way for her 68.<\/p>\n

Kim has won the last two weeks on the LPGA Tour, both times with Korda as the runner-up and there haven’t been players who finished 1-2 in consecutive weeks on the LPGA in 25 years.<\/p>\n

The last player to win a hat-trick of tournaments in three weeks was Korda in 2024, during her streak of five winning starts. Coincidentally, her third week in a row winning that year also was at Shadow Creek.<\/p>\n

Kim said: “Coming into Vegas people keep telling me to win three weeks in a row. I mean, I think I’ll just try my best like usual. There is nothing else.”<\/p>\n

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Image:
\n Nelly Korda (left) hugs Hyo Joo Kim (right) after the latter’s victory at the Fortinet Founders Cup in 2026 (Associated Press)<\/p>\n

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Joint first round leader Coughlin though could be the player to beat given her form on the Shadow Creek course.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I know this place really well. Been in a lot of the places that you don’t want to be, so I feel like I just know the spots that I need to land it to a lot of the pins, where to miss if you have to,” said Coughlin, who did not drop a shot until her final hole on the ninth.<\/p>\n

Watch the second round of the Aramco Championship from 11pm on Friday on Sky Sports Mix, with coverage on Sky Sports Golf at 12am. Get Sky Sports<\/a> or stream with no contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Coughlin showed her familiarity with Shadow Creek by opening with a five-under 67, putting her in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-579079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579079","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=579079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}