GOLF ROUNDUP Thursday’s other events

LPGA Tour

SUNNINGDALE, England — Juli Inkster had the sort of opening round Annika Sorenstam was hoping for at the Women’s British Open, a bogey-free 7-under 65 that left the 48-year-old American one shot ahead of the field. While Sorenstam struggled to a 72 in what the Swede says is her final major before she quits tournament golf at the end of the season to start a family, Inkster went out among the earliest in the field to shoot an eagle and five birdies. Her 65 matched the lowest opening round at any Women’s British Open. Inkster, whose last major title was the 2002 Women’s U.S. Open, is a stroke ahead of seven players — Ji-Yai Shin, Ji Young Oh, Yuri Fudoh, Momoko Ueda, Jo Head, Laura Diaz and Stacy Prammanasudh. Defending champion Lorena Ochoa was three strokes behind. Inkster’s opening round gives her a realistic hope of becoming the oldest winner of a major and the second player to complete a career Super Slam. That’s the Kraft Nabisco, LPGA Championship, U.S. Open, British Open and the now defunct du Maurier, a combination only Karrie Webb has completed. Not even Sorenstam can do that because she missed out on the du Maurier. A victory in Sunningdale also would mean that Inkster would have gone a women’s record 24 years between her first major — the 1984 Kraft Nabisco and du Maurier — and her last. Jack Nicklaus went 24 years between his first and last majors — the 1962 U.S. Open and 1986 Masters.

U.S. Senior Open

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Fred Funk fired a 5-under 65 to take the first-round lead at the U.S. Senior Open. Funk, who leads John Cook by one stroke, had two birdies and an eagle on the first four holes and added birdie putts on 16 and 17 before finishing with his only bogey of the day. Cook rebounded from his collapse at the British Senior Open last week, carding a 66 that made him the clubhouse leader until Funk’s pair of late birdies. On Sunday, Cook blew a three-shot lead with eight holes to go and then lost to Bruce Vaughan in a playoff at Troon, Scotland.

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