Golf Channel · Mar 18, 2016
Lee (out in 27) threatens 59 but shoots 62
PHOENIX – Mi Hyang Lee blitzed Wildfire Golf Club on Thursday, equaling the best nine-hole score in LPGA history at the JTBC Founders Cup, but she fell short of joining Annika Sorenstam as the only players to break 60 in a tour event.
After making seven birdies and an eagle to shoot 27 on her first nine, Lee had the golf world on a 59 watch 15 years after Sorenstam became the first player to post that number in an LPGA event. Sorenstam put that score up in Phoenix at the Standard Register Ping at Moon Valley Golf Club. Lee cooled on her second nine, but she still shot a tournament course record 10-under-par 62 to take the first-round lead.