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© JED JACOBSOHN ireland's Leona Maguire is the first-circular leader on the LPGA Mediheal Championship at Lake Merced Golf membership Leona Maguire fired nine birdies in a glowing seven-beneath par sixty five on Thursday, matching the Mediheal Championship 18-gap scoring checklist to catch the primary-circular lead within the LPGA event. Maguire, back in action after failing to qualify for remaining week's US women's Open, posted four birdies in her first six holes on the again nine at Lake Merced Golf club. She answered a bogey at the 16th with back-to-back birdies at 17 and 18, then birdied three extra holes coming in before giving a shot returned on the ninth - her remaining hole. She had a one-stroke lead over Jasmine Suwannapura of Thailand, who had eight birdies in her sixty six. Switzerland's Albane Valenzuela and American Alison Lee shared third on 68 and South Korean superstar Park In-bee headlined a group of six players on three-beneath 69. "I obtained off to a very quality birth," mentioned Maguire, a former novice world number one who has two wins on the developmental Symetra tour however remains seeking a first LPGA victory. "Birdied my opening two holes, which kind of settled me in quite nicely, holed some basically first rate putts and in universal it turned into a gorgeous stress-free day," delivered Maguire, who hit 11 of 14 fairways and sixteen of 18 vegetables in legislation. "I hit loads of fairways, hit a lot of greens and, yeah, my placing become satisfactory." Maguire referred to she felt at domestic at Lake Merced, the place the chilly morning temperatures and the layout reminded her of courses in eire. "it's a lot of the identical vogue of golf route, identical climate as home," she spoke of. "received a nice feeling at once when we arrived on Monday." despite her closing bogey, Maguire walked off the route with a 4-shot lead. however Jasmine -- two-below after four birdies and two bogeys on the front 9 -- nabbed 4 birdies on the returned nine, pulling inside one of the vital lead with a birdie on the 18th. Lee's eventful round included a double bogey at the par-four 14th -- at once followed by using an eagle at 15. "i was very upset after 14," Lee pointed out. "I just made a extremely dumb mistake. Tried to make par and ended up making a double, so i was obviously a little bit upset on the tee container, and that i hit a really first rate power. "I hit a good force, a good second shot. I hit a 5-iron in, simply grew to become out terrific and i had a nice tap-in eagle putt. "in fact become a simple gap." bb/ch
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