The Ricoh Women’s British Open is under way…I was hoping that Annika would be the star of the show since she is planning on retiring at the end of this season. It looks like at this moment, Juli Inkster is the star. Juli is 48 years old, has not won a major title since the 2002 Women’s U.S. Open and is one shot ahead of the field. If Juli wins this, she will be the oldest winner of a major and the second player to complete a career Super Slam. Also if Inkster wins, that would mean that she would have gone a women’s record 24 years between her first major-the 1984 Kraft Nabisco and her last. Lots of luck to her!

As for the rest of the feild,Prammanasudh twice was tied with Inkster at 7 under but each time she drew even she followed with bogeys at Nos. 15 and 17. At one stage, Sorenstam was 3 over after bogeys at three of the first six holes. She finally birdied the ninth, picked up more shots after the turn, but is still seven strokes behind the leader. Ochoa birdied the first two holes and was 5 under after 15. But two bogeys toward the end of her round left her at 69.
Inbee Park, the Women’s U.S. Open champion, shot a 74. She dropped a shot at the opening hole and had double bogeys at Nos. 5 and 6 to reach the turn at 4-over 40.

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