Madelene Sagstrom leads after first round of 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo

Madelene Sagstrom of Uppsala, Sweden is the round one leader of the 2020 Olympic women’s golf tournament. After 18 holes from the Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kasahata, Japan, Sagstrom shot a score of -5.

Sagstrom had five birdies and zero bogeys. She birdied the first, fifth, sixth, ninth, and 10th holes. Sagstrom has one career win on the LPGA Tour. It came at the 2020 Gainbridge LPGA Event in Boca Rio, Florida, before the LPGA Tour shut down because of coronavirus. She beat Japan’s Nasa Hataoka by a stroke. Earlier this year, Sagstrom made golf headlines as she publicly revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child according to Charlotte Gibson of ESPN.

Meanwhile, there are 14 golfers within three strokes of the lead. Aditi Ashok of India, along with 2020 Women’s PGA Championship winner Nelly Korda of the United States are one stroke back at -4. Three players are at -3. There you can find Finland’s Matilda Castren, South Korea’s Jin Young Ko, and Spain’s Carlota Ciganda. At -2 there is a nine-way tie. Those three back are South Korea’s Inbee Park, the Czech Republic’s Klara Spilkova, Thailand’s Bianca Pagdanganan, Spain’s Azahara Munoz, South Korea’s Min Lee, Chinese Taipei’s Wei-Ling Hsu, South Korea’s Sei Young Kim, Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen, and American Danielle Kang.

There are a couple of interesting tidbits from the group of nine who are three strokes back. Park is the reigning Olympic champion, as she took gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Kang meanwhile has publicly stated that competing at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 is a personal thrill, and she is fulfilling a lifelong dream.

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