Catriona Matthew matches Singapore

par 0f 72 in HSBC tournament

Americans Paula Creamer and Jane Park and Brazil's Angela Park shared the lead on five-under-ar 67 at the end of the first round of the $2 million HSBC Women's Champions at Tana Merah Country Club, Garden Course, Changi in Singapore.
Lorena Ochoa, the defending champion and world No. 1 ranked player, is joint sixth on 69.

Catriona Matthew, expecting her second child and a winner in Brazil earlier this year, is on the par-72 mark, two ahead of fellow-Scot Janice Moodie.

Laura Davies' worrying slump in form continues. She had a nine-over-par 81.
FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72
67 Paula Creamer, Jane Park, Angela Park (Bra)
68 Seon Hwa Lee (Kor), Ai Miyazato (Jpn)
69 Se Ri Pak (Kor), Eun Hee Ji (Kor), Lorena Ochoa (Mex), Angela Stanford, Gwladys Nocera (Fra)
70 Heather Young, Natalie Gulbis, Michele Redman, Shanshan Feng (Chn), Katherine Hull (Aus)
71 Il Mi Chung (Kor), Sun Young Yoo (Kor), In Kyung Kim (Kor), Brittany Lang, Ji-Young Oh (Kor), Louise Friberg (Swe), Mi-Hyun Kim (Kor), Momoko Ueda (Jpn), Carin Koch (Swe)
72 Juli Inkster, Meena Lee (Kor), Katie Futcher, Ya-Ni Tseng (Kor), Ji-Yai Shin (Kor), Jimin Kang (Kor), Hee Young Park (Kor), H J Choi (Kor), Lindsey Wright (Aus), Catriona Matthew (Sco), Song-Hee Kim (Kor), Kristy McPherson, Suzann Pettersen (Nor), Russy Gulyanamitta (Tha), Shiho Oyama (Jpn), Teresa Lu (Tai), Alena Sharp (Can), Sophie Gustafson (Swe)
73 Minea Blomqvist (Fin), Stacy Prammanasudh, Anja Monke (Ger), Karen Stupples (Eng), Morgan Pressel, Hee-Won Han (Kor), Amy Yang, Cristie Kerr, Wendy Ward, Ji-Hee Lee (Jpn), Christina Kim, Sandra Gal (Ger), Leta Lindley, Jee Young Lee (Kor)
74 Na Yeon Choi (Kor), Karrie Webb (Aus), In-Bee Park (Kor), Candie Kung (Tai), Janice Moodie (Sco)
75 Pornanong Phatlum (Tha), Laura Diaz
76 Young Kim (Kor), Jin Joo Hong (Kor), Pat Hurst
77 Giulia Sergas (Ita), Rachel Hetherington (Aus), Nicole Castrale, Helen Alfredsson (Swe)
78 Poh Joey (Sin)
79 Vicky Hurst, Becky Morgan (Wal)
80 Ashleigh Simon (Rsa)
81 Laura Davies (Eng), Diana D'Alessio
82 Allison Fouch, Jill McGill