April Angurasaranee leads by two shots at the Joburg Ladies Open after opening with a sizzling six-under-par 67, which included nine birdies at Modderfontein Golf Club.
Playing in the morning, and starting on the 10th, the Thai player made a hot start with a birdie on her opening hole before arriving at the 18th level par following two dropped shots and another birdie at the 13th.
Angurasaranee then lit things up on the turn, stiffing her approach shot on the closing hole to make birdie before posting three more in a row on the first second and third.
A bogey on the fourth briefly halted her momentum, before back-to-back birdies on the eight and nine – the latter a near ace on the short par-three – gave Angurasaranee the number to beat in Johannesburg.
"Obviously nine birdies – it’s got to be a good day, right?" she asked rhetorically after her round. "I played some great golf out there, made some good putts and made some really good up-and-downs.
"I had two three-putts out there, which was a bit iffy for me, but other than that it was such a good day."
Six players sit in a tie for second on four under, including Angurasaranee's fellow Thai star Aunchisa Utama, Singapore’s Shannon Tan, German duo Laura Fuenfstueck and Verena Gimmy, South Africa’s Nadia van der Westhuizen and Alexandra Swayne from the US Virgin Islands.
Eight players sit one shot further back on three under par.
Ireland's Lauren Walsh is on level par after three birdies and as many bogeys, while Olivia Mehaffey laboured to a round of five over.
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