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Alison Lee, Gigi Stoll, New Zealand's Lydia Ko
and South Koreans Haeran Ryu, Jenny Shin and Hye-Jin Choi are
tied for sixth at 70.
Coughlin, 31, never finished in the top five in an LPGA Tour
event until this year, when she did so in two majors. She tied
for third at the Chevron Championship in April, then placed
fourth at the Amundi Evian Championship earlier this month.
"Pretty much ever since Evian, I've been hitting the ball
extremely well," she said. "To keep it going even in an off week
felt really good. Yeah, it's just trying to be myself and have
fun, and then see what I shoot."
Coughlin began on the back nine and made nine consecutive pars.
She birdied No. 1, then added birdies at Nos. 4, 5, 8 and 9,
sandwiching her lone bogey at No. 6.
"It was a lot windier than I was expecting, so just had to stay
super patient in the beginning," Coughlin said. "Kind of started
getting some putts dropping. Yeah, I mean, it was tough out
there for sure, but I hit a lot of really good shots and a lot
of good putts."
Green, Minjee Lee and Kupcho each had four birdies and one
bogey.
Jutanugarn logged consecutive birdies at Nos. 14, 15 and 16,
then gave back two strokes with bogeys at Nos. 17 and 18. Her
front nine consisted of seven pars and two birdies.
Jutanugarn is attempting to repeat her feat of 2016, when she
won the tournament in Calgary.
"I (haven't had) a good year yet, like starting my first
tournament until this event," she said. "And when I play the
practice round Tuesday and play the pro-am on Wednesday, I feel
like this course is so hard. Like the rough is so long. The
fairway is so small. (Greens are) so firm.
"So today just play (with) no expectation because, like, it's
really windy when we start. Especially, like, the first 12 holes
(are) so hard. I think when I play without expectations, ...
everything starts to get better."
Megan Khang, who won the event last year when it was held in
Vancouver, is tied for 62nd after shooting a 74.
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