Women’s PGA Championship first round<\/p>\n
-9 I Yoon (Kor); -7 K Davidson (Aus); -5 A Kim (Kor), A Pano (US); -4 A Krauter (Ger), H Choi (Kor), M Khang (US)<\/p>\n
Selected others: -2 N Korda (US); E L Woad (Eng); +1 C Hull (Eng), M Rhodes (Eng), G Dryburgh (Sco), L Walsh (Ire)<\/p>\n
Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n South Korea’s Ina Yoon leads the Women’s PGA Championship by two shots after the first round as Nellie Korda’s hopes of a third straight major were dented.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old made no bogeys in a nine-under-par 63 at Hazletine in Minnesota – and is seven shots clear of world number one Korda.<\/p>\n Yoon, who is in her second year on the LGPA Tour and is yet to finish higher than fourth, made nine birdies in a dazzling opening round.<\/p>\n Australia’s Karis Davidson is second after a seven-under 65 while South Korea’s A-Lim Kim and America’s Alexa Pano are tied third on five under.<\/p>\n “It was fun to play out there,” said Yoon. “I’m just trying to think of nothing. Focus on what I need to do. Focus on process. That part, I think, I did great.”<\/p>\n American Korda is in a share of 19th after making five birdies but also a double bogey on the 16th hole.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old four-time major winner won the Chevron Championship in April<\/a> and the US Women’s Open earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n “Honestly just made one bad swing, which ended up in a double. But overall, pretty happy with my day,” said Korda.<\/p>\n “I put myself into a good position. I’m really happy with the first day. You can’t win it on the first day, but you can definitely lose it. Overall happy with a solid start.”<\/p>\n The purse of $13m (\u00a39.8m) this week is the largest in women’s golf history, with $1.95m (\u00a31.48m) awarded to the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s PGA Championship first round -9 I Yoon (Kor); -7 K Davidson (Aus); -5 A Kim (Kor), A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}