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Australian Alison Whitaker shares the lead with defending champion Caroline Hedwall of Sweden after round one of the UNIQA Ladies Golf Open presented by Raiffeisen in Austria.
Whitaker and Hedwall carded five under par 67s on a glorious opening day at Golfclub Fohrenwaldh in Wiener Neustadt to end one clear of Mikaela Parmlid, Stacey Keating and Klara Spilkova.
Hedwall is playing in her first event since the US Women’s Open after two months out with a hip injury, but said: “Today I got a lot out of it and I’m very happy with five under. Today it felt like I had been playing all summer.”
The Solheim Cup player won this event by four shots a year ago but only started hitting full shots three weeks ago after advice from doctors.
