Evian Masters - 1st Round

Morgan Pressel, Melissa Reid and Sun Ju Ahn are tied at the top of the board after the first round of the Evian Masters.  Song-Hee Kim and M.J. Hur are tied for fourth place, one shot behind while seven others are tied for sixth, down by two.

Pressel bogeyed once (at the par-4 13^th) and birdied seven times en route to a 66.  Reid, a 22-year-old Brit who is one of the LET's best young players, bogeyed twice but birdied seven times in a nine-hole stretch to also post 66.  Ahn, a KLPGA veteran with seven career victories, birdied 16 and eagled 18 to join the party.  Some of the other notable scores belong to:

The coverage on Golf Channel begins at 6:30pm EDT.

POST-TV UPDATE:  Late in the afternoon, the skies opened up and quite a bit of rain fell although play continued.  The dampness might have factored into Angela Stanford's closing double-bogey.  Her second shot found the hazard to the right of the green, her fourth found the green but a three-putt turned what had looked like a sure 66 into a 69.  Sun Ju Ahn's eagle at 18 was from 35 feet away, the only putt from over six feet on 18 that I saw holed.  It's a tough green, one of several on Evian's back nine.

The international field prompted Brian Hammons and Jane Crafter to comment about the difficulty of pronouncing all of the names, especially those unfamiliar to them.  Brian came up with the day's funniest blunder when he called Akane Iijima "Iwo Jima".