PORTLAND, Oregon – Two-time champion Brooke Henderson birded all four par-5 holes with a 7-under 65 at the Standard Portland Classic on Thursday, causing a stroke behind first round leader Adela Cernaus.
Henderson won the first of 13 LPGA Tour titles for the 17-year-old in 2015 for an eight-stroke at Columbia Edgewater, successfully defending the following year. Currently 27 years old, she won in January 2023 and ranked 52nd in the world.
“I love coming back to this place,” Henderson said. “I have a lot of great memories. There have been a lot of good things happening to me here.”
She opened the morning round with two straight birdies on par 5. In her second nine, she birded the par 5 5th and 7th and par 4 9th.
“It’s really important to hit a lot of fairways this week,” Henderson said. “You want to hit it really straight. I think I just missed two fairways today, so that was good.
Next week, Henderson will return to Canada for the CPKC Women’s Open in Mississauga, Ontario. She won the national championship in 2018.
Cernousek shot 65 in the final group of the 10th tee. The 22-year-old French woman played the final nine holes with a 7-under 29.
“I was hitting the ball very well,” Sernausk said.
Song Hyun Park suffered from strokes with Henderson, Jong Jung Lee 5, Green Cowl and Miranda Wang. The park had eight birdies and bogeys in the afternoon round on a timber-lined course. The 31-year-old Korean won the final of seven tour titles in 2019.
“I’ve been beginning to feel very comfortable with my ball strikes and putting, and that’s exactly what happened today,” Park said. “I swing with confidence and I also felt great about the strokes I made from green.”
Haeran Ryu was 2 strokes with 66 at Perrine Delacour, Arpichaya Yubol, Ashleigh Buhai and Linn Grant. Ryu, number 9 in the world, and Angel Inn, number 7, who shot 72, is the only player in the top 10 in the world rankings on the field.
The amateur Chiararromero had 67. The University of Oregon star won the 2023 US Women’s Junior and the 2025 Big Ten title.
“It all lay pretty smoothly,” Romero said. “I was a little nervous on the first tee, but I still played pretty well.”
Juli Inkster, a 65-year-old Hall of Fame winner who won the 1999 event, birded three par-5s at 69.
“Today I actually thought it really worked,” Inkster said. “I hit a lot of good irons and I drove the ball well. I was happy with it.”
She played alongside 2017 champion Stayseils and 2019 winner Hanna Green. Hanna Green each shot 73. Defending champion Moriya Jutanugaan also had 73 players.
The tournament is the longest continuous event on the LPGA Tour, with the exception of majors dating back to 1972.
