Hee-Won Han holds LPGA lead

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A young South Korean whose game is on the rise found herself in the lead for the first time on the LPGA Tour -- at a major championship, no less.
Five years ago that was Se Ri Pak in the LPGA Championship. She led from start to finish at DuPont Country Club, the first of two majors she won that year.
Hee-Won Han is not about to predict what her future holds, especially with Annika Sorenstam only three strokes behind with three rounds left to play.
Started quickly
Han got off to a quick start Thursday with four birdies on the front nine and finished strong for a 4-under 67 and a one-stroke lead over Wendy Ward and Joanne Mills.
She didn't know where Sorenstam was on the leaderboard and didn't care.
"Three days left," Han said.
That's the way Sorenstam sized up the first round of the McDonald's LPGA Championship on a tough course with thick, wet rough.
Sorenstam found awkward lies in the bunker, bad lies in the rough, missed a fair amount of birdie putts and still walked off with a 1-under 70.
"That's the best start I've had at this championship in a while," Sorenstam said. "I'm just a slow starter."
She made two bogeys, from an awkward lie in the bunker on No. 13 and from the rough on No. 15, and had to make an 8-foot par putt in between. She kept it together with a 6-foot par putt on the 18th, then finally got it going.
Short birdie putts on the second and sixth holes put her under par, and even a 6-foot birdie miss on the par-5 ninth, her final hole, didn't dampen her spirits.
Juli Inkster found herself in the rough frequently around the greens, and she had no shot but to hit it and hope.
"The rough is ridiculous," Inkster said after an even-par 71. "If you miss the green, you can't use any skills. I'm happy with my score. I didn't shoot myself out of it."