England's Mel Reid sits two behind Sung Hyun Park after the opening round of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G, at Pinnacle Golf Club.
England's Mel Reid is two behind Sung Hyun Park after the opening round of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G, at Pinnacle Golf Club.
Reid sits alongside So Yeon Ryu and Ally McDonald at six-under-par, after her lowest round on the LPGA Tour in 2017.
The morning looked to belong to Reid, who made birdie on five of her first seven holes. Her good luck kept rolling on the back nine where she made a hole-in-one at the par three, 11th hole to jump to eight-under par and extend her lead.
“I mean, as soon as I hit it I thought, ‘oh, it's got a chance,'” Reid said about her tee shot at the 11th hole. “I just hit a little 9-iron, so I think it was 135. I just tried to play a 130 shot and it pitched about seven behind it and came back.”
But Reid was unable to continue the momentum and dropped shots on her closing stretch to finish with a six-under par, 65 to sit two-strokes back of Park. Her 65 turns around a rough stretch for the rookie who missed the cut in her last three starts.
England's Felicity Johnson is part of a group including Juli Inkster, Moriya Jutanugarn, Stacy Lewis and Katherine Kirk at five-under par.
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