TROON, Scotland \u2014 American Lauren Coughlin and South Korea\u2019s Jenny Shin shot 6-under 66s Thursday to take a one-stroke lead at the LPGA Tour’s Scottish Open at windswept Dundonald Links.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old\u00a0Shin\u00a0began the day from the 10th with a birdie and added further birdies on the 12th, 14th and 18th holes to make the turn in 4-under.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn this\u00a0golf\u00a0course, the tee shots are pretty crucial,\u201d said Shin. \u201cI really focused on getting my tee shots on the fairway, and it\u2019s really dried out, so it\u2019s playing a little shorter than the year\u2019s past when it was quite wet out here.”<\/p>\n
Coughlin,\u00a0who won the Aramco Championship in April, won the\u00a0Scottish Open in 2024. She had eight birdies and two bogeys Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew it was going to be playing difficult out there,” Coughlin said. “I felt like I had a really good game plan and executed really well and made a few putts. It was windy, even in the practice round days, so I feel like I had gotten a good feel for it. Just a good game plan and good execution today as well.<\/p>\n
South Korea\u2019s A Lim Kim was in third place after a 67 while Lisa Pettersson was a stroke behind in fourth.<\/p>\n
Four players were tied for fifth with 70s \u2014 Germany\u2019s Esther Henseleit, Sweden\u2019s Anna Nordqvist and the Japanese duo of Erika Hara and Miyu Yamashita.<\/p>\n
Anna Huang of Vancouver, B.C., carded a 13-over-par 85 and could have trouble making the weekend cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROON, Scotland \u2014 American Lauren Coughlin and South Korea\u2019s Jenny Shin shot 6-under 66s Thursday to take a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-822210","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\/822210","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=822210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}