South Korea's A Lim Kim, four years removed from her lone LPGA victory, shot a six-under-par 66 on Wednesday and holds a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Lotte Championship at Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
Five players are tied for second after carding five-under at Hoakalei Country Club: the Philippines' Bianca Pagdanganan, China's Ruixin Liu, Germany's Polly Mack, France's Perrine Delacour and Taiwan's Peiyun Chien.
Canada's Savannah Grewal, Russia's Nataliya Guseva and Japan's Yuri Yoshidaare tied for seventh at four under.
Kim captured the 2020 US Women's Open at the Champions Club in Houstonduring her major championship debut. She has since finished in the top ten at majors three times, including a tie for ninth at the Chevron Championship this year, but she has yet to post another victory in any event.
Now she sits on top of a leaderboard following the first round for the first time since the 2021 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
Asked how that would affect her approach, she said, "Same as last week, two weeks ago. My prepare and process, everything is same, same as every week. I'm going to focus on speed control, putting speed control, and then wedge number game."
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