Golf: Bader leads, Tseng lurks at LPGA Lotte

KAPOLEI: Beth Bader fired a four-under par 68 to seize a one-shot lead over a quartet of players, including Taiwan’s Yani Tseng, at the inaugural LPGA Lotte Championship. Bader, without a victory in 13 LPGA Tour seasons, teed off on 10 and had five birdies – including three in a row from the par-five fifth – before closing with a bogey at the par-four ninth at Ko Olina, where winds gusted up to 30mph. Tseng, the world number one who has won three of the first six LPGA Tour events this season, was in a group sharing second on 69 that also included South Korean star Jiyai Shin, HSBC Champions winner Angela Stanford and Brittany Lang.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2012.