Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe only downside is the mosquitoes,\u201d said Huang, who stated that she was getting bug bites through her clothes. \u201cIt’s pretty bad. My arms are pretty red right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alas, Huang said her comfort level on this LPGA Tour stage \u2014 given her successes so far in 2026 across the pond \u2014 is \u201cpretty high.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think my game is in a pretty good spot, so hopefully I can just continue playing some good golf,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I’m definitely a lot more confident than I was the past few years coming into this event, and then also just all the crowds out there really helped.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Xing, meanwhile, was 5 under through her first 12 holes. She gave one back with a bogey on the par-4 6th \u2014 she started on the back nine \u2014 but got it right back with a birdie on the next hole. She needed only 23 putts on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just trying to keep it simple,\u201d Xing said. \u201cLike a lot of the time just trying to get the speed with certain putts because I had a lot of long putts. I was lucky enough to make a couple longer ones from the fringe which kind of helped me with the putting numbers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Xing, who won the Canadian Women\u2019s Amateur Championship last year, is committed to going to UCLA in the fall. She won the PGA Women\u2019s Championship of Canada to earn a spot in her maiden CPKC Women\u2019s Open, but missed the cut both that year and in 2025 (ironically, she has only ever shot 75 in each round she\u2019s ever played at the CPKC Women\u2019s Open until Thursday\u2019s opener).\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said finding the weekend in her national open would be awfully meaningful.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would mean a lot. You know, I played this tournament a couple times before. I’ve been trying, like I’ve been close before, but I haven’t done it yet. As an amateur, like that’s one of my biggest goals, is to make the cut at an LPGA event, especially when it’s in Canada,\u201d Xing said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely feel more comfortable. I remember when I was playing my first one, I was very, very nervous \u2014 like, shaking nervous \u2014 but this definitely feels a little more familiar to me now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canadian duo will have some ground to make up with Yamashita off to a record-breaking start. Her 62 set the Royal Mayfair course record and was just one shot off the tournament’s 18-hole low score of 61.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yamashita came into the week after a missed cut at the AIG Women\u2019s Open in July, but prior to that she had four top-five finishes in her last six tournaments \u2014 including a win at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give. In all, Yamashita has finished inside the top 10 in half of her starts so far this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI took two weeks off in Japan and I got really good feelings right now; so I want to keep (the) good rhythm for (Friday),\u201d Yamashita said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a while since I finished the first round in good position, so I was able to make some putts as well (and) I\u2019m pretty happy with how I played.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 It didn\u2019t take long for the up-and-coming Canadian teenage talent to make their mark at this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-865765","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\/865765","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=865765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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