On a day when Brooke Henderson, Tiger Woods and a computer glitch grabbed all the headlines, it was veteran French woman Karine Icher who went out and shot a bogey-free -7 65 to take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.
Icher, the LPGA Tour's version of a grinder is in pursuit of the final spot in the European team's Solheim Cup squad, ran off 6 birdies in the middle of her round on the Vancouver GC.
Lydia Ko, twice our national champion including her win here in 2012, is two back after a -5 67, then come four players, Danah Bordner, I.K. Kim, Stacy Lewis and Pernilla Lindberg all at -4
Brooke Henderson is in form to say the least, continued her fine play with a -2 70 T13 and declared herself pleased with her start.
Tiger meanwhile shot -6 64 for his best score in two years on a soft yielding Sedgefield CC , at the Wyndham Championship to trail the leaders Erik Compton, William McGirt and Tom Hoge who all shot 62, by two shots.
Wyndham Championship leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/wyndham-championship/leaderboard.html
Morgan Hoffman, Jim Herman and Derek Ernst are at 63, while Martin Kaymer, Davis Love III and Carl Pettersson are also at 64.
For many players at this event it's all about getting inside the top 125 to make it into the Fed Ex playoffs. For those who asked me Tiger is at #187 on the points list and needs a win to move into the top 125.
Computer glitch...There are 3 tournaments left for an American pro to play his way into the Presidents Cup squad so it was news when we all learned that a computer error caused the PGA Tour to readjust the U.S. standings because double the points had been awarded starting with the Frys.com Open in October. Points were not supposed to count as double until the first event of 2015 at Kapalua.
As a result, Robert Streb who had been in 11th place, 365 points behind the 10th spot to automatically qualify is down to No. 16 and 881 points behind while Charlie Hoffman went from No. 12 to No. 15 because both won during the 2015 Fall series.
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