Rohanna struggles in first LPGA tournament

Rachel Rohanna’s first appearance on the 2016 LPGA tour did not go as planned as the Waynesburg High School graduate shot a 7-over-par 80 in Thursday’s first round of the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic at Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Rohanna, who earned her card off the Symetra Tour in the fall, was tied with Vicky Hurst for 105th place. Rohanna wil be competing in the second round.
Meanwhile, Michelle Wie was stung by a bee Thursday in the season-opening Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic, and second-ranked Inbee Park withdrew because of back pain after the second-worst round of her LPGA Tour career.
Wie was stung on the hand on the 16th hole, her seventh of the day at the windy Ocean Club. She finished with a 3-over 76 to fall eight strokes behind first-round leaders Paula Creamer, Charley Hull, Alison Lee, Ashlan Ramsey, Catriona Matthew, Mika Miyazato and Haru Nomura.
”I was waiting to hit my tee shot and I felt something sting and it hurt really, really bad and I knew it was a bee,” Wie said. “I brushed it away and the stinger was still in there. We were trying to find a tweezer and out of all the people, our security guy had tweezers on him, so I got it out.”
She bogeyed three of the first five holes on her back nine.
”It just kind of felt so swollen it was kind of hard to grip the club. I was hitting the ball so well on the front nine and just definitely had a couple loose ones coming in making the turn. You can kind of feel the venom kind of spread. But the last couple holes, it’s feeling better.”
She struggled with her putting.
”I only missed two greens,” Wie said. “I just putted horribly.”
Park shot an 80, playing her final four holes in 5 over with a double bogey on the par-5 15th and three bogeys. She will sit out the Coates Golf Championship next week in Florida.
Brown tied for PGA lead: Scott Brown birdied his last hole for a 30 on the front nine, a 6-under 66 and a share of the lead Thursday in the Farmers Insurance Open.
Only it felt much better for Brown. He played on the tough South Course at Torrey Pines, which was 2 ½ strokes harder than the North Course where Andrew Loupe shot his 66 in the opening round.
Locally, Steve Wheatcroft and Brenden Todd did not enter the tournament.