Salas pounds 62 in Indy Champs

– American Lizette Salas fired a course record-equalling 10-underpar 62 on Thursday to take a two-shot first-round lead over Japan’s Nasa Hataoka and Angel Yin in the LPGA Indy Championship.

Salas birdied the last three holes at the Brickyard Crossing Golf Club course in Indianapolis, Indiana.

With an eagle and eight birdies in total, her career best round put her two ahead of two 19-year-olds – American Angel Yin and Japan’s Nasa Hataoka. –

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