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Rough start for Aditi on a windy day at KPMG Women’s PGA

Chaska, Minn, US, June 21: Aditi Ashok opened with a series of three bogeys and ended with two more as she had a rough start of five-over 77 on the opening day, when wind and rain were also big factors at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. This is the third Major of the year in women’s golf.

At 102nd on the leaderboard, she will need to go low in the second round to make the cut as 61 players shot two-over or better and Hannah Green, a 22-year-old Australian was on top of the leaderboard

The 6,807-yard long Hazeltine course has been tough test for the players. Green found only six fairways and nine greens but her putter worked well and she need just 23 putts for her round. Green’s best finish at a major is T-16 at last year’s ANA Inspiration.

Aditi has made one cut and missed another in the first two Majors of a season that has been very modest. She bogeyed 10th, 11th and 12th before she got her first and only birdie of the day on Par-5 15th. On the second nine she dropped a shot on second and then had two more on eighth and ninth.

Green was one stroke ahead of Hyo Joo Kim, winner of the 2014 Evian Championship, and Mel Reid, a 31-year-old Englishwoman with one top 10 in a major.

Lying in fourth place with rounds of 70 are two-time major winners Ariya Jutanugarn and Sung Hyun Park besides In-Kyung Kim, who has a major on her resume, and Annie Park and XiYu Lin and Amy Yang.

Lying at 71 are two more double-major champions, So Yeon Ryu and Lydia Ko, as well as Angel Yin, Mirim Lee, Chella Choi, Carlota Ciganda and Moriya Jutanugarn.