KPMG Women's PGA Championship 2022, Congressional, Bethesda, MD: 23-26 June
In Gee Chun's record-tying five shot lead, 8-under round, at the Women's PGA Championship, Day One
From LPGA, by AP:
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — In Gee Chun is alone atop the KPMG Women's PGA Championship following a sensational start.
In fact, no player has ever been further ahead after 18 holes at a women's major.
Chun breezed to an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take a five-stroke advantage after the first round at Congressional. While most of the field slogged through the day on the wet Blue Course, Chun birdied seven of eight holes during one stretch. She was seven shots ahead when she finished her round and ended up tying a record for the largest 18-hole lead at a major. Read more
From Golf.com, by Zephyr Melton:
BETHESDA, Md. — In Gee Chun looked like she was playing a different course than the rest of the field on Thursday.
On a day when a long, wet Congressional Country Club played like a true major-championship test, Chun was unbothered. The two-time major winner carded nine birdies (and just one bogey) in her opening round at the KPMG Women’s PGA, turning in a course-record 64 to set the early pace in suburban Washington D.C. Read more
From First Post, by Agence France-Presse:
Washington: South Korea's Chun In-gee fired a record-equalling eight-under-par 64 to surge into a commanding five-shot lead at the Women's PGA Championship on Thursday.
The 27-year-old two-time major champion reeled off nine birdies and only one bogey at Congressional Country Club outside Washington to match the lowest opening round in the history of the Women's PGA Championship set by Nicole Castrale in 2006.
Chun's remarkable round was also a course record at Congressional, the historic 98-year-old venue which is hosting a women's major championship for the first time.
Shrugging off wet conditions that made the course play longer — two inches of rain had been dumped on the layout overnight — Chun's round erupted just before the turn when she reeled off four straight birdies to move to five under. Read more
The 'New' Blue Course, with photos
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