NORTON, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Sei Young Kim capped a second-nine spree with an chip-in eagle and shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday at the TPC Boston to take the first-round lead in the FM Championship.<\/p>\n
Kim played a six-hole stretch in 6 under with four birdies and the eagle on the par-5 seventh. The South Korean player had only 24 putts as she tries to build on a third-place finish last week in the CPKC Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like this course is a little softer, greens are a little softer than last year,\u201d Kim said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I was able to get a lot of birdie chance, even front nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miyu Yamashita, the runaway winner Sunday in Edmonton, Alberta, was a stroke back along with Emily Kristine Pedersen. <\/p>\n
After tying the LPGA Tour\u2019s 72-hole scoring record in her nine-stroke victory in Canada, Yamashita led the field with 10 birdies, but had a double bogey on the par-3 eighth. The Japanese star played the back nine in 30 with seven birdies in eight holes. She also had just 24 putts.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday putting, middle putting,\u201d Yamashita said. \u201dSo good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Somi Lee opened with a 66. <\/p>\n
Vancouver\u2019s Anna Huang was the leading Canadian with a 69. Calgary\u2019s Aphrodite Deng had a 73, while Maude-Aimee LeBlanc of Sherbrooke, Ont., and Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., each had a 76. <\/p>\n
Top-ranked Nelly Korda had a 72 in the final event before the Solheim Cup. All 10 players atop the women\u2019s ranking are in the field.<\/p>\n
The $4.4 million purse is the largest outside of the majors on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n
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See AP\u2019s full golf coverage here <\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTON, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Sei Young Kim capped a second-nine spree with an chip-in eagle and shot an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-874279","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\/874279","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=874279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}