Jamie Farr Classic - 1st Round

Laura Diaz, Morgan Pressel and Song-Hee Kim opened with 64s to lead at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.  Suzann Pettersen and Michelle Wie are tied for fourth one shot behind while six others are two shots back.

There were birdies aplenty today as an incredible 65 players scored in the 60s and 115 shot even par or better.  Only six of the 146 players who started the day shot worse than +3 74.  For Diaz, it was her best round of the season by four shots as she played the back nine in -5 31.  It was Pressel's best round of the year by two strokes and it matched her career best.  Kim actually bogeyed twice (at 1 and 16) but nine birdies (seven coming in a ten-hole stretch) tied her for the lead.  Pettersen aced hole #2 (her 11^th of the day), the second hole-in-one of her LPGA career.

I usually post all of the first-round 60-somethings but will have to pick and choose today.  Here you go:

Paula Creamer's thumb must still be a problem as she did not start.  Sandra Gal withdrew sometime during the round.

The conditions were obviously perfect today and the weather for the rest of the weekend in Toledo looks great with no more than 10-15mph winds.  Unless the course super decides to do something like not water the greens all weekend and keeping in mind Creamer shot 60 here a year ago, we could very well see somebody threaten Se Ri Pak's -23 mark set back in 1998 when she won the first of her five Klinger Klassic titles.