Women's Open: American Ally Ewing holds one-shot lead after day one

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Ally EwingAlly Ewing has 3 wins connected the LPGA Tour but has ne'er won a major
-4 A Ewing (US); -3 E Pedersen (Den), L Jeon-Geun6 (Kor), J Boonchat (Tha), P Delacour (Fra), A Yang (Kor)
Selected:-1 C Hull (Eng), S Meadow (NI); Evens M Reid (Eng), J Ewart (Eng), L Maguire (Ire); +1 N Korda (US), C Heath (Eng), G Dryburgh (Sco); +2 M MacLaren (Eng), L Ko (NZ), C Boutier (Fra), G Hall (Eng)
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American Ally Ewing has a one-shot pb aft the archetypal time of the Women's Open astatine Walton Heath.

The 30-year-old sank a birdie connected the 15th and past recorded an eagle astatine the par-five 16th to motion for a circular of 68, which included 4 different birdies.

South Korean duo Amy Yang and Jeongeun Lee deed rounds of 69 and are among the chasing battalion astatine 2 under.

England's Charley Hull leads location hopes successful Surrey astatine 1 nether par on with Northern Ireland's Stephanie Meadow.

Ewing said: "Obviously it's breathtaking to get successful with a bully archetypal round, but it's a agelong mode to spell until Sunday.

"It's large to enactment a bully archetypal circular unneurotic but successful large title play you tin ne'er truly suffer focus."

Defending champion Ashleigh Buhai is 2 implicit alongside England's Georgia Hall and France's Celine Boutier, who is chasing a 3rd consecutive tourney win.

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