Leona Maguire is seven shots off the lead after the opening day of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore.
Maguire carded a birdie-less round of 75 to lie on three-over-par as A Lim Kim leads by the minimum from Charley Hull on four-under.
The Cavan star opened with six successive pars on the back nine before a double bogey seven on the par-5 16th set the tone for a frustrating day.
A bogey followed on the third hole and on a day where she took 31 blows on the greens she was unable to find her first birdie of the tournament.
Leading player Kim carded a near perfect round with a 68. The Korean fired five birdies on the 6th, 8th, 12th 13th and 15th holes with her only blemish coming at the par-5 16th.
One shot further back is England’s Hull who fired a bogey free round of 69 that included birdies on the third, tenth and fourteenth to move her into solo second place.
Behind Hull is the big name trio of Minjee Lee, Ruoning Yin and Hey-Jin Choi on two-under-par after rounds of 70 with former world number one players Lydia Ko and Jean Thitikul a shot further back.
Yin was happy with how she battled the blustery conditions and feels they have led to a tightly packed leaderboard early in the tournament.
“I think today it’s pretty windy, and I think the course is trickier with the wind. That’s why I think the score wasn’t too low. But overall, yeah, I played pretty solid today. But just I have a couple mistakes that happened.”
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