{"id":555,"date":"2005-03-18T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/ochoa_lim_lead_at_safeway\/"},"modified":"2005-03-18T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T12:05:44","slug":"ochoa_lim_lead_at_safeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/lpga\/ochoa_lim_lead_at_safeway","title":{"rendered":"Ochoa, Lim Lead at Safeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/lpga\/lorena_ochoa.jpg\" alt=\"Lorena Ochoa\" width=\"160\" height=\"173\" class=\"bordered\" \/>The defending champion Annika Sorenstam fired a 6-under par 66, but it was not good enough to match first-round leaders Lorena Ochoa and Siew-Ai Lim, who carded 65s. Michelle Wie is in danger of missing the cut at 73.<\/p>\n<p>Sorenstam is in good position to defend her title at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/lpga\/sorenstam_defends_win_at_safeway_international\/\" title=\"Safeway International Preview\">Safeway International<\/a>, said of her 66 &#8220;That&#8217;s the kind of start I wanted, and then we go from there.&#8221; Veteran Juli Inkster was also at -6. Karen Stupples shot 67, Soo-Yun Kang, Sung Ah Yim, and Moira Dunn shot 68s. Several players shot 69 Thursday, including Paula Creamer, Beth Daniel, Natalie Gulbis, Dawn Coe-Jones, and Karrie Web.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMichelle Wie, playing in the first group off the back nine, was one over coming to 18, the only hole with water. She promptly double-bogeyed the par-5 finishing hole after hooking her drive into the pond and then hitting a 3-wood into the pond on her approach. She got up and down from a bunker to salvage the double bogey. Said Wie of the conditions she faced, &#8220;It was super cold. I couldn&#8217;t even feel my hands, so the first nine I had absolutely no feel of my putts.&#8221; Wie will give it another shot tomorrow, and said &#8220;I&#8217;ll try to make a lot of birdies tomorrow and try and make a lot more putts. Try to be more in the fairway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lim is the only Malaysian on the LPGA Tour and finished with four birdies after three-putting the 14th from 80 feet. Ochoa, the Mexican star who played college golf at the University of Arizona (a few years after Sorenstam), birdied the first four holes and came back from a bogey at seven with birdies on 8, 9, 11, and 16.<\/p>\n<pre>Pos   Player               Tot      R1\nT1    Siew-Ai Lim           -7      65\nT1    Lorena Ochoa          -7      65\nT3    Annika Sorenstam      -6      66\nT3    Juli Inkster          -6      66\n 5    Karen Stupples        -5      67\nT6    Soo-Yun Kang          -4      68\nT6    Sung Ah Yim           -4      68\nT8    Candie Kung           -3      69\nT8    Karrie Webb           -3      69\nT8    Dawn Coe-Jones        -3      69\nT8    Beth Daniel           -3      69\nT8    Natalie Gulbis        -3      69\nT8    Moira Dunn            -3      69\nT8    Paula Creamer         -3      69<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorena Ochoa and Siew-Ai Lim fired 65s, and defending champ Annika Sorenstam is one back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ochoa, Lim Lead at Safeway (LPGA) - The Sand Trap .com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/lpga\/ochoa_lim_lead_at_safeway\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ochoa, Lim Lead at Safeway (LPGA) - The Sand Trap .com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Lorena Ochoa and Siew-Ai Lim fired 65s, and defending champ Annika Sorenstam is one back.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/imgs\/lpga\/lorena_ochoa.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Erik J. 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