Megha Ganne set the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Newbie document on Wednesday with a nine-under 63 at Champions Retreat, giving her a two-shot lead over defending champion Lottie Woad.
The scoring was decrease than regular at Champions Retreat, the place the opening two rounds are held earlier than the highest 30 who make the reduce play the ultimate spherical at Augusta Nationwide, which hosts the Masters subsequent week.
Ganne took benefit with a bogey-free spherical. Enjoying early and beginning on the again 9, the Stanford junior ran off three straight birdies early and saved par with an 18-foot putt on the fifth gap, her 14th of the day.
The one disappointment was a three-putt par on the par-five ninth gap.
“Imagine it or not, I had a dream final night time that I shot 61,” Ganne mentioned on Golf Channel. “I did not inform anybody. I did not need to set dangerous omens within the air.”
Ganne loved 4 birdies on the again 9, lacking out on one likelihood on the par-five 14th however making up for that with a 45-foot birdie putt on the fifteenth.
Kiara Romero, Farah O’Keefe and Amanda Sambach every shot 67.
They had been amongst 29 gamers within the 71-player discipline who broke par. US Ladies’s Newbie champion Rianne Malixi was pressured to withdraw due to a again damage.
Ganne is taking part in the ANWA for the fifth time, having superior to the ultimate spherical every of the final two years. She has been round lengthy sufficient to grasp there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward.
“Get pleasure from at the moment and take the remainder of the week because it comes,” Ganne mentioned. “However at the moment was fairly particular.”
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