KPMG Women’s PGA Championship: Jeeno Thitikul leads as Nelly Korda makes par with neck injury after opening day | Golf News

Jeeno Thitikul leads Minjee Lee by a blow after the opening day of the KPMG PGA female championship in Texas while the world n ° 1 Nelly Korda was equal with a neck injury.

Korda is only four shots from leader Thitikul, who made four money, after having injured her neck during training for the third major of the year during training on Monday.

The American says that even if it does not affect her photos, she suffers from pain “just with a rotation” from her neck and it is difficult to sleep comfortably.

“It’s better. To improve every day, which is good. Just because I injured it last year, every time I injure myself around the neck, it takes a little more time than normal,” said Korda.

“I sort of refined it before my tour with Ariya (Jutanugarn) in Vegas this year, during the night when I could not move then, fortunately, it was not as bad as that day. It just takes me a week to recover when I change my neck now.”

Korda at the end of last year jumped two tournaments in the LPGA Asia swing due to a minor neck injury, and this defeat against Jutanugarn in a match match took place in April.

Korda said earlier this week that her neck “had entered a full spasm” after hitting a tough shot during a training round at the Fields Ranch East race in PGA Frisco on Monday, before skipping the champions dinner that evening.

In the first round of the third major of the season, Korda had two Birdies and two Bogeys and was part of the same group as the world No. 2 and the leader Thitikul at four under 68 years old.

“Overall, I mean, even to start the adult. It was more in the morning than I thought,” Korda said.

“So it played a little more. I’m quite happy with my first round in the conditions.” It was quite windy. It’s hot. This definitely makes an impact, the warmth of Texas, so I am satisfied with my position. I didn’t even really look at the ranking, to be honest. “”

Korda opened with seven consecutive pars, including in the seventh hole of the 317 yards, par-4, where she struck a road of 294 yards in a valley just below green. Its initial throw from there has a ricochet off the edge of the green and rolled on the slope to the place where it was. Korda struck her next shot at two feet and saved the peer.

On the eighth par-3, Korda’s starting stroke passed over the green to install his first Bogey. She obtained free relief after her approach to the Ninth par-5 went well and settled next to a temporary structure, and she launched at three and a half feet and did the Birdie Putt.

Only 15 of 156 players broke by, without bullets without bogey one day when temperatures reached 33c in Fields Ranch East in Texas.

Behind the leader Thitikul, Australia Lee Three Under 69, then Haeran Ryu, Rio Takeda and Somi Lee tired in third place out of two years.

The American women’s champion, Maja Stark, drew three more than 75 and reigning champion Amy Yang finished with a 76.

Mimi Rhodes is the best English players in his major beginnings on the same score as Yang to enter the second round on a par in 84th.

Charley Hull fired six out of 78 and Jodi Ewart Shadoff is another return in 135th, so the three English players will seek to make the cup.

How can I look live on Sky Sports Golf?

Sky Sports will display prolonged coverage of the KPMG female PGA championship, with second round Friday from 4 p.m. Sky Sports Golf Before a second live cover session at 11 p.m.

The live action Saturday begins at 5.30 p.m. on Sports Sports Mix And 6 p.m. on the same channel for the last Tour on Sunday.

This week’s major is one of the three live events on Sky Sports, with the PGA Tour traveler championship – a signature event – and the closing towers of the amateur championship also available.

Who will win the KPMG PGA women’s championship. Look throughout the week live on Sky Sports. The live cover starts Thursday from 4 p.m. Sky Sports Golf. Get Sky Sports or disseminate without a contract now.