NORTON, Mass. (AP) — Allisen Corpuz kept her patience while spinning her wheels for so much of the year and finally saw some good results Thursday when she opened the FM Championship with a 7-under 65 to share the first-round lead with Sei Young Kim and fast-closing Jodi Ewart Shadoff.

Corpuz had four birdies on her last six holes at the TPC Boston, holing a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-4 ninth to catch Kim, who played in calmer conditions in the morning.

Shadoff was the last to finish, and she did so in style with four straight birdies.

“Holed a lot of putts outside 20 feet, so that definitely helps. And then the last four just good ball striking and some really nice putts,” Ewart Shadoff said.

Nelly Korda switched putters to more of a blade and saw it pay off with seven birdies in

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