By Mike Kittrell, APGrace Park of South Korea watches her, knocking the Green 18 Thursday during the first round of LPGA Classic in Mobile, Avnet Ala.
By Mike Kittrell, APGrace Park of South Korea watches her, knocking the Green 18 Thursday during the first round of LPGA Classic in Mobile, Avnet Ala.
Park eagled par-5 13th and had five birdies and two bogeys on The crossings course on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Magnolia Grove complex. She won the last of her six LPGA Tour titles in 2004, Park missed the pro-am Wednesday to rest her surgically repaired back. She has failed to make the cut in his three previous LPGA tour starts this season. "Overall, my back is better than it has in the past five or six years, "Park said. "I feel really strong. I feel really good. "She got off to a fast start, then closed with birdies on her final two holes to No 8 and 9. "When you have finished the round at 5 under, of course, everything is going quite well," said she. "I started hitting my irons really close. ... Everything was just easy and smooth today. I made a few mistakes, but overall in these windy conditions remained very consistent to the Green and rolled into a few putts and birdied the final two holes to finish at 5 under. "Kim, winless on the tour, had seven birdies and two bogeys. "I have been a little sick, "says Kim. "I went to Korea a couple of times and got a cold. My body was weak, sick. Has actually been worried me of everything. I try too hard. My pictures are not the same as last year. Exclusion left, right, left. I've had better shoot the last three weeks, pretty hard. "Stacy Lewis, Nabisco winner three weeks ago, was a stroke back at 68 along with Karen Stupples. Lewis had a bogey-free round. "I was a little surprised, "said Lewis. "I played really well and I was just kind of surprised because I had not been able to practice as I did the past two weeks. But I was pleasantly surprised. I played really solid. I had many putts around the hole. I just got a couple to fall. "Defending champion Se Ri Pak shot a 69 to match Na Yeon Choi and Angela Oh. Pak won the Tournament of Champions at the track in 2001 and 2002, it is important to be patient out there today, "said Pak." quite difficult this morning, because really windy out there and the Greens are quite difficult to get the correct spacing. "Michelle Wie (FSY) opened with a 76. She bogeyed five of the first eight holes.Top-ranked Yani Tseng fought also shoot a 77. She had a triple bogey on the par-4 first — her tenth hole of the day – and a double bogey on the par-5 16th.
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