STEPHANIE MEADOW AND Leona Maguire have both made strong starts at the Lotte Championship to feature at the business end of a tightly-packed leaderboard.
Meadow opened her tournament in Kapolei, Hawaii, with a brilliant eight birdies across a round of five-under par 67.
She sits in a tie for seventh place, three shots behind the early leaders Brittany Altomare and Yuka Saso.
Maguire is a further shot back in a tie for 14th place after she teed off with a rock-solid round of four-under par.
The Cavan native, who comes in to this week off the back of a top-30 Major finish at the ANA Inspiration, rolled in four birdies and didn’t make a single bogey for an opening 68.
Maguire is back out for her second round at 6.33pm Irish time on Thursday evening with Meadow teeing off shortly afterwards at 7.50pm.
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