Recent WPGA champion Su Oh has continued her surge of good form by leaping to the lead in the LPGA Thailand event at Siam Country Club in Pattaya.

The 25-year-old Oh fired in nine birdies in her opening round and went bogey-free.

She shares the lead with Japanese star Nasa Hataoka and Germany’s Esther Henseleit. Oh won the WPGA Championship at Royal Queensland in January to break a seven-year winning drought.

World No. 4 Minjee Lee opened with a three-under par 69 while Hannah Green shot 70.

Oh made a bomb at her first hole, the 10th on the course and chipped in at the sixth. She was delighted with what she believes was a career-best tournament score to par.

“I had like a four-footer down the hill left to right for par on the last and I was like, ‘come on’, because I think I shot plenty of eight-unders, but not nine,” she said later.

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