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Kimberly Kim shot 10-under 62 Monday in the first round of stroke play at the U.S. Girls’ Junior to etch her name in the USGA record books once again.

Kim’s score tied Christina Kim for the lowest 18-hole score in a USGA girls’ or women’s championship. Last year, Kimberly Kim became the youngest winner in U.S. Women’s Amateur history at 14 years old.

Kimberly Kim had 10 birdies and no bogeys Monday at the par-72, 6,391-yard Tacoma Country & Golf Club in Lakewood, Wash.


“I was telling my dad that I’ve been hitting really bad and putting really bad, so don’t expect anything,” she said. “But today I played really good. I just played really solid the whole round. I don’t know what it was, but everything just seemed to work out.”

She shot 31 on each side, making four birdies on the front nine and six on the back nine, including four in her final five holes. Kim’s score was the lowest of the day by six shots. Three players, including Golfweek’s top-ranked junior Mina Harigae, finished at 4 under.

Christina Kim shot 62 in the second round of stroke play at the 2001 U.S. Girls’ Junior, at the time setting the record for lowest score in any USGA championship. Billy Horschel broke that with a 60 in the first round of last year’s U.S. Amateur.

The record for low medalist score at the U.S. Girls’ Junior is 130, set by Taylore Karle in 2005. Kimberly Kim can break that with a score of 67 or lower Tuesday.

This is Kimberly Kim’s second scoring record of the year. In May, she shot 10-under 206 at the AJGA’s Thunderbird International Junior to win by eight shots and break by three strokes the tournament scoring record held by Morgan Pressel (2005) and USC All-American Belen Mozo (2004).

– Information from the USGA was used in this report

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Scores with relation to par from the first round of the U.S. Girls' Junior, played July 23 at the par-72, 6,391-yard Tacoma Country & Golf Club in Lakewood, Wash.:

1. Kimberly Kim	62			-10
2. Evan Jensen	68			-4
2. Mina Harigae	68			-4
2. Kristen Park	68			-4
5. Demi Frances Runas	69			-3
5. Stephanie Kono	69			-3
5. Madison Pressel	69			-3
5. Courtney Ellenbogen	69			-3
5. Ha Na Jang	69			-3
5. Stephanie Kim	69			-3
5. Sally Watson	69			-3
5. Jennifer Johnson	69			-3
13. Michelle Shin	70			-2
13. Kristina Wong	70			-2
13. Jennifer Hirano	70			-2
13. Alexandra Groetsema	70			-2
13. Diane Kwon	70			-2
13. Cheyenne Hickle	70			-2
13. Mary Michael Maggio	70			-2
20. Jessica Wallace	71			-1
20. Tessa The	71			-1
20. Tessa Teachman	71			-1
20. Ashley Edwards	71			-1
20. Taylore Karle	71			-1
25. Tzu-Chi Lin	72			E
25. Jane Rah	72			E
25. Stacey Kim	72			E
25. Felicia Espericueta	72			E
25. Hailey Koschmann	72			E
25. Danielle Kang	72			E
25. Lila Barton	72			E
25. Elyse Okada	72			E
25. Sue Kim	72			E
25. Shanshan Feng	72			E
25. Suzie Lee	72			E
25. Cassandra Blaney	72			E
25. Jaclyn Jansen	72			E
25. Brittany Altomare	72			E
25. Sorelle Sedej	72			E
25. Cyna Marie Rodriguez	72			E
25. Alexis Thompson	72			E
42. Emily Childs	73		+	1
42. Lindy Duncan	73		+	1
42. Kiara Hayashida	73		+	1
42. Karisa Akin	73		+	1
42. Jenny Shin	73		+	1
42. Cyd Okino	73		+	1
42. Tiffany Lua	73		+	1
42. Nikki Koller	73		+	1
42. Brittany Henderson	73		+	1
42. Danielle Frasier	73		+	1
52. Kaitlyn Rohrback	74		+	2
52. Ayaka Kaneko	74		+	2
52. Haley Wilson	74		+	2
52. Vicky Hurst	74		+	2
52. Seohee Moon	74		+	2
52. Mitsuki Katahira	74		+	2
52. Anne Ormson	74		+	2
52. Natalie Reeves	74		+	2
52. Michelle Ahn	74		+	2
52. Abby Cotter	74		+	2
52. Kristen Schelling	74		+	2
52. Alison Lee	74		+	2
52. Hillary Packard	74		+	2
52. Jennifer Song	74		+	2
66. Rebecca Lee-Bentham	75		+	3
66. Ginger Howard	75		+	3
66. Maria Juliana Loza	75		+	3
66. Doris Chen	75		+	3
66. In-Ah Park	75		+	3
66. Maria Uribe	75		+	3
66. Margarita Ramos	75		+	3
66. Wonjoo Choi	75		+	3
66. Haley Sanders	75		+	3
66. Chessey Thomas	75		+	3
66. Sarah Brown	75		+	3
77. Andrea Watts	76		+	4
77. Samantha Formeck	76		+	4
77. Chihiro Ikeda	76		+	4
77. Ani Gulugian	76		+	4
77. Hunter Ross	76		+	4
77. Gabriella Dominguez	76		+	4
77. Caroline Powers	76		+	4
77. Kalyn Dodge	76		+	4
77. Alyssa Randolph	76		+	4
77. Kayla Mortellaro	76		+	4
77. Dottie Ardina	76		+	4
77. Katy Nugent	76		+	4
77. Amy Ruengmateekhun	76		+	4
90. Annie Park	77		+	5
90. Becca Huffer	77		+	5
90. Tracy Martin	77		+	5
90. Joy Kim	77		+	5
90. Candice Wiley	77		+	5
90. Sadena Parks	77		+	5
90. Brittany Weddell	77		+	5
90. Cheyenne Woods	77		+	5
90. Hannah Yun	77		+	5
90. Nicole Agnello	77		+	5
90. Betsie Johnson	77		+	5
101. Kelsey Conway	78		+	6
101. Andrea Messer	78		+	6
101. Katie Sylvan	78		+	6
101. Valentina Fontaine	78		+	6
101. Bethany Buchner	78		+	6
101. Caroline Prebul	78		+	6
101. Kyle Roig	78		+	6
101. Nicole Zhang	78		+	6
101. Meghan Chapman	78		+	6
101. Leigh Henderson	78		+	6
101. Christine Song	78		+	6
112. Julia Thead	79		+	7
112. Paula Andrea Hurtado	79		+	7
112. Kelsey Podlesny	79		+	7
112. Stacy Kim	79		+	7
112. Ashley Mckenney	79		+	7
112. Samantha Esguerra	79		+	7
112. Darlea Carr	79		+	7
112. Amy Beth Simanton	79		+	7
112. Tanya Wadhwa	79		+	7
112. Sarah Almond	79		+	7
112. Katie Craig	79		+	7
123. Maria Ronderos	80		+	8
123. Kelly Shon	80		+	8
123. Gretchen Huhnerkoch	80		+	8
123. Kyung Kim	80		+	8
123. Blair Bonner	80		+	8
123. Courtney Mckim	80		+	8
123. Katrina Delen-Briones	80		+	8
130. Kalynd Carson	81		+	9
130. Avery Sills	81		+	9
130. Beverly Vatananugulkit	81		+	9
130. Emily Tubert	81		+	9
130. Christina Stringham	81		+	9
130. Carry Barbee	81		+	9
130. Joy Trotter	81		+	9
137. Lauren Greenlief	82		+	10
137. Eleana Collins	82		+	10
137. Ali Nelson	82		+	10
137. Lauren Smith	82		+	10
141. Brittany Penny	83		+	11
141. Erin Sharpee	83		+	11
141. Hanule Seo	83		+	11
141. Maria Battaglia	83		+	11
141. Daffodil Sanchez	83		+	11
146. Stephanie Corey	84		+	12
146. Julia Strandberg	84		+	12
148. Stephanie Wagstaff	85		+	13
148. Beth Sellers	85		+	13
150. Olivia Weber	86		+	14
150. Kaitlin Coons	86		+	14
150. Stephanie Smith	86		+	14
153. Lindsey Thomka	87		+	15
154. Lauren Varnas	88		+	16
155. Jordan Essman	90		+	18
156. Ellen Ceresko	94		+	22

Posted: 7/23/2007

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