{"id":7398,"date":"2025-06-07T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/elizabeth-szokol-ilhee-lee-shares-a-3-shot-lead-in-the-lpga-classic\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:39:48","slug":"elizabeth-szokol-ilhee-lee-shares-a-3-shot-lead-in-the-lpga-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/elizabeth-szokol-ilhee-lee-shares-a-3-shot-lead-in-the-lpga-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Szokol, Ilhee Lee shares a 3-shot lead in the LPGA Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Galloway, N.J. &#8212; Elizabeth Schizokol birded the first five holes and shot an 8-under 62 on Friday, earning the share of the first round lead with Ilhee Lee at Shoprite LPGA Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in the afternoon on Seaview&#8217;s Bay Course, Szokol continued her opening birdie run with a bogey on No. 6, adding birdies to 8, 9, 13 and 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to have a great start and really look forward to the weekend,&#8221; Skoll said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of golf left and I&#8217;m really excited to see today&#8217;s good golf and hard work pay off today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old American teamed up with Cheyenne Knight to win the only tour at the 2023 Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Nelly Corda opened at 71, with 68 for the second Gino Chiticle. There was Maja Stark, who was the winner of the US Women&#8217;s Open at Erin Hills on Sunday, shooting 70.<\/p>\n<p>Lee birded three straight holes on 3-5, 8-10, 16-18, and had one bogey in the morning round. The 36-year-old Korean won the 2013 pure Silk Bahamas LPGA classic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not expecting,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just playing golf. Come out and have fun. That&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After 65 in one of two 54-hole tournaments remaining on the LPGA Tour schedule, Japan&#8217;s Akie Iwai was third. The other is the Walmart NW Arkansas Open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Usually, I feel a fast, short tournament for four days,&#8221; Iwa said. &#8220;So we have to make a lot of birdies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wei-Ling Hsu was 66 years old and was with Aline Krauter, Ayaka Furue, Polly Mack, Saki Baba, Dewi Weber and Gurleen Kaur.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Linna Astrom Shot 72.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galloway, N.J. &#8212; Elizabeth Schizokol birded the first five holes and shot an 8-under 62 on Friday, earning the share of the first round lead with Ilhee Lee at Shoprite LPGA Classic. Playing in the afternoon on Seaview&#8217;s Bay Course, Szokol continued her opening birdie run with a bogey on No. 6, adding birdies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-7398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}