Lee So-mi is alone on the high of the leaderboard after the opening spherical on the season’s remaining LPGA event.
Lee shot an eight-under 64 to start the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Membership in Naples, Florida, on Thursday (native time). After posting the bottom spherical of her LPGA profession, Lee leads Allisen Corpuz of the USA by two strokes.
Lee, who made seven birdies, one eagle and one bogey, hit all 14 fairways and reached 16 greens in regulation whereas making 27 putts.
Lee is considered one of 9 Koreans within the area of this unique event, open solely to the highest 60 gamers within the Race to CME Globe factors rankings.
Lee teamed up with Im Jin-hee for his or her maiden LPGA title on the Dow Championship in June, and she’s going to now attempt to grow to be the one Korean to win a number of titles in 2025.
“It is an honor taking part in my first Tour Championship, and I do not assume I used to be essentially able to be nervous about something,” Lee mentioned. “I believed to myself, regardless of the rating is or how I play, let’s simply sort of put together for subsequent 12 months’s season. I believe that sort of alleviated the stress in at the moment’s spherical to have the ability to get a greater rating.”
Im is tied for third place after capturing a five-under 67, and Kim Sei-young, who received this event in 2019, additionally carded a 67.
The 72-hole, no-cut event has the most important share for the champion with $4 million. The cash chief coming into this event, Minjee Lee of Australia, has earned simply over $3.8 million up to now.
