The ISPS HANDA New Zealand Women’s Open is Lydia Ko's home event and she's the defending champion, of course. And since the first round is finishing up as I write this, I can tell you that Lydia is T5 at -3, 3 shots off the lead, and it looks like she'll still be 3 off the lead when everybody finishes. She's tied with her fellow Kiwi, Cathryn Bristow.
While I don't recognize some of the names on the leaderboard, I do recognize first round leader Nicole Broch Larsen. She's from Denmark, won the Helsingborg Open last year, and is one of those players you'll probably be seeing on a Solheim Cup team pretty soon.
I also recognize French player Gwladys Nocera, who has won 15 times around the world and is currently T3 with Pamela Pretswell, a Scottish player I've heard of but whose game I am not familiar with.
Currently in solo second is a new name for me, Justine Dreher, a French rookie on the LET this year. It'll be interesting to see how she holds up against the 'veterans'.
I hate that we don't get to see much of the LET over here in America. If we're lucky, GC will replay the last round or two sometime next week; they don't do that with many of the events. But the fact that Lydia Ko is playing in this one may give us a chance to see some of it.
We can hope, anyway. In the meantime I'll just have to settle for watching the leaderboard change on my computer.
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