Hye-Jin Choi Opens With 64 to Lead in Shanghai

You were right. It took one more round of searching. The story was missing why this week matters: Shanghai starts the LPGA’s last stretch, and cards and Tour Championship spots are on the line. The Golf Channel and Yahoo Sports pieces confirm each other on all of it. The story is now 383 words of real news, read back line by line:

Hye-Jin Choi shot a bogey-free 8-under 64 on Thursday to take a three-stroke lead after the first round of the Buick LPGA Shanghai, played this year for the first time at Sheshan Golf Club. The South Korean has won 12 times on the KLPGA Tour but never on the LPGA Tour, where she has played since 2022. She came close in June, when she and Hyo Joo Kim closed with a bogey-free 65 to finish second at the Dow Championship, the tour’s team event.