Ewart Shadoff shares first round lead over Australian Open

Ewart Shadoff has a best finish in a big second place in the 2017 British OpenISPS Handa Women & # 39; s Australian Open first-round standings-7 J Ewart Shadoff (Eng), H Wei-ling (Tai); -5 K Web (Aus), M Sagstroem (Swe), B Law (Eng) Other selected: -3 G Hall (Eng); -2 M Reid (Eng); -1 C Boutier (Fra), F Johnson (Eng), L Ko (NZ), M Lee (Aus)

Jodi Ewart Shadoff from England shares the early lead after a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 " perfect "conditions" on the Women & # 39; s Australian Open.

The 31-year-old carded seven birdies in The Grange to start the first round with the Taiwanese Hsu Wei-ling.

The law of Bronte in England and The Australian Karrie Webb sit in a group two adrift.

"A good start is always fun," said Ewart Shadoff. "I worked at the beginning of the week little but to my putts and that has certainly paid off. "

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New Zealand & # 39; s former world number one Lydia Ko and the Australian Min-Lee Lee, seven ranked, are four beats further back in the LPGA Tour event in Adelaide, along with Celine Boutier from France who is ahead this week Vic Open won.

Thai world number one Ariya Jutanugarn struggled with a four-over-par 76.