Amy Olson leads after round one of the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open

Amy Olson (Google Images)

Amy Olson of Oxbow, North Dakota is the round one leader at the 2020 United States Women’s Open from the Champions Club in Houston, Texas. Olson put together a score of four-under-par 67 and has a one-stroke lead.

A major reason why Olson is on top of the leaderboard is because she had a hole-in-one on the par-three 16th. It was one of two aces on Thursday, as Yu Jin Sung had a hole-in-one on the par-three fourth hole. Both aces occurred at the Cypress Creek Course. All players in the field play one of the first two rounds at the Cypress Creek Course, and the other at Jackrabbit.

Olson has a one-stroke lead over 2019 British Open champion Hinako Shibuno of Japan, Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn, and A Lim Kim of South Korea. Moriya, and her sister Ariya Jutanugarn both tested positive for coronavirus in November.

Seven golfers are two strokes back of the lead at -2. Here you will find Sweden’s Linn Grant and Linnea Strom, American Gerina Piller, England’s Charley Hull, 2020 British Open champion Sophia Popov of Germany, Yuka Saso of the Phillippines, and Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit.

Meanwhile, there are a dozen golfers three strokes off the lead at -1. Those who shot an opening-round score of 70 were Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England, Maja Stark of Sweden, Pauline Roussin-Bouchard of France, Amelia Garvey of New Zealand, Americans Megan Khang, Mina Harigae, Lindsey Weaver, Jennifer Kupcho, and two-time ANA Inspiration champion Brittany Lincicome, 2017 US Women’s Open champion and 2018 Women’s PGA Championship winner Sung-hyun Park of South Korea, Hye-jin Choi of South Korea, and 2016 British Women’s Open champion and 2018 U.S. Women’s Open champion Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand.

It should be noted that Grant, Bouchard, Garvey, and Stark are amateurs. Like the Jutanugarn sisters, Lincicome recently had coronavirus.

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