Teenage amateur Megha Ganne faced down the imposing Lake Course at Olympic Club on Thursday firing six birdies in a four-under-par 67 to join Mel Reid atop the US Women’s Open leaderboard.
Reid, a six-time winner on the Ladies European Tour who claimed her first LPGA Tour title in October, came out firing, opening with back-to-back birdies as she set an early target that no one but New Jersey high school junior Ganne could match.
Ganne had actually vaulted over Reid, taking sole possession of the lead at five-under after birdies at the 15th and 16th holes, but she bogeyed 18, where she was in the rough and a greenside bunker.
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