Lee-Anne Pace opened the Ladies European Tour’s Jabra Ladies Open at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France with a level-par 71 on Thursday to be in a share of 11th after the first round.
The tournament, which got the LET season underway after a lengthy break of nearly two months since March 18, was led by Anne van Dam of the Netherlands on a stunning bogey-free-five-under-par 66. Van Dam led by one Celine Herbin of France, with Swede Linn Grant in third on three-under, Denmark’s Nicole Broch Estrup fourth on two-under, and six players on one-under in a share of fifth.
Pace made four birdies and four bogeys, and shared 11th with seven other players, including the Sunshine Ladies Tour’s Investec Order of Merit winner, Lily May Humphreys of England.
The other South African in the field, Stacy Bregman, who won the recent Standard Bank Ladies Open on the Sunshine Ladies Tour at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington West, opened with a three-over-par 74 to be in a share of 47th after the first round.
