Chinese golfer Shanshan Feng and Florentyna Parker of England opened with matching six under par 66s on the Majlis Golf Course at Emirates Golf Club on Wednesday to share the first-round lead in the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters.
World No.6 Feng fired six birdies in her first 16 holes and was caught when Parker rolled in a putt on the iconic par-5 18th for birdie.
The pair, playing together for the first two rounds, ended the day a stroke ahead of three other players.
Klára Spilková of the Czech Republic set the pace with a bogey-free 67 in the morning before being joined on that number by Cindy Lacrosse of the United States and Welshwoman Sahra Hassan in the afternoon.
Feng is making her tournament debut as a newly appointed ambassador of the sponsor, OMEGA. She said: “I think it's my first time for this tournament, and it's my sponsor's tournament, so I came with pressure, actually. Before the round, I told myself on the driving range, I said, I have to be patient, whether I'm playing well or not and I was patient because I was only one‑under through seven holes. I missed a lot of chances but I had quite a comeback, so finished with six‑under and really happy about that.”
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