Golf: Ace puts Hataoka into 5th after 1st round of NW Arkansas C'ship

Japan's Nasa Hataoka capped a 6-under round with a hole-in-one on the par-3 11th to sit two shots off the lead after Friday's opening round of the LPGA's NW Arkansas Championship.Hataoka, the 2018 winner of the tournament, is in a five-way tie for fifth behind Australia's Katherine Kirk, and South Koreans Kim A Lim and Ji Eun Hee who are tied for the lead.All three leaders went bogey-free to card rounds of 8-under 63 in the 54-hole tournament at the Pinnacle Country Club.The trio leads American Sarah Burnham by one stroke."I didn't think it would go in," Hataoka said after her hole-out on t…READ FULL ARTICLE