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10/29 01:57 CDT Three closing birdies put Pauline Roussin-Bouchard atop the
Maybank Classic leaderboard
Three closing birdies put Pauline Roussin-Bouchard atop the Maybank Classic
leaderboard
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) --- Pauline Roussin-Bouchard birdied her final
three holes Thursday at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club for an 8-under
64 and a one-stroke lead after the first round of the LPGA Tour's Maybank
Classic.
French player Roussin-Bouchard, whose rookie season on the tour was 2022, is
still looking for her first LPGA win and has three top-10 finishes.
American Sophia Schubert, who also joined the tour in 2022 and has no wins and
three career top-10 finishes, was tied for second place after a 65 with Miyu
Yamashita, who won last year's Malaysian tournament after a three-way playoff.
Another French player, Perrine Delacour, shot 66 and was tied for fourth with
Charley Hull, who birdied two of her final three holes.
Haeran Ryu, a major winner this year at the Women's PGA Championship and at the
Evian Championship, withdrew before her first-round tee time for an undisclosed
reason. She was the highest-ranked player in the tournament in the absence of
No. 1 Nelly Korda and No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul.
Last week, Yuri Yoshida won the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea, the
fourth Japanese player this season to win on the LPGA Tour, joining Yamashita,
Shiho Kuwaki and Yuna Nishimura. Yoshida had a 69 Thursday.
Among the hazards at the Kuala Lumpur layout was the sight, captured on the
television coverage, of a 3-meter (10-foot) monitor lizard eating a smaller
animal near one of the lakes on the course.
The LPGA's four-week, late-season Asian swing ends next week with the Toto
Japan Classic at Omitama outside Tokyo.
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