LET rookie Anna Huang fired a bogey-free round of 64 (-8) to lead by two strokes at the end of the first day of the 2025 La Sella Open.
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The 16-year-old Canadian made back-to-back birdies on the second and third before rolling in three on the trot on holes six to eight.
Huang added another birdie on 10 before a pair of birdies on 12 and 13 to seal a round of eight-under-par at La Sella Golf Resort.
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“Today my ball striking was good, and I actually don’t think I missed any greens, so that’s a plus,” said Huang. “My putting was good. Almost anything under 30-foot on the front nine I was making, which was shocking for me.
“Bogey-free is great too. Just avoiding the rough is really important here and that’s what I did today, which made it a lot easier.
“It’s been a pretty fun rookie season. I did struggle with my putting a little bit mid-season, so I missed a few cuts there. I switched my putter out before Houston and that has helped.”
Huang headed to Lalla Aicha Q-School last December while an amateur and secured Category 16 status for the 2025 Ladies European Tour season.
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Despite being only 16, the Canadian then decided to join the professional ranks and become an LET member and has had a solid season while balancing both school and life on Tour.
France’s Nastasia Nadaud and Germany’s Leonie Harm sit in a share of second place on six-under-par after they each carded rounds of 66 in Spain.
Nadaud, who is ranked 13th in the LET Order of Merit, had a bogey on the 11th but bounced back with a birdie on the 12th hole.
The 20-year-old Frenchwoman then got on a roll making five birdies in-a-row on holes 17 through to the third; she added another birdie on five before dropping a shot on seven but finished with a birdie on the ninth to be in T2.
Harm, who began her day on the 10th tee, started with a dropped shot on 11 but soon recovered with four birdies in a row on holes 12-15.
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She made three further birdies on the fifth, sixth and ninth holes to join Nadaud on six-under-par at La Sella Golf Resort.
Slovenia’s Pia Babnik sits in outright fourth place on five-under-par after carding a round of 67 which included eight birdies and three bogeys.
“I’m really happy with my day, I made eight birdies. There was a rough patch in the middle, but I was able to come out of it and play well in the end,” said the two-time LET winner.
“I did hole a lot of putts today. I was hitting it close quite a lot, a lot of the shots went short of the pin and then I was making the putts. Some of the par-5s, I played really well, so I was really pleased with that.”
Spain’s Luna Sobron Galmes is in solo fifth place on the leaderboard after making seven birdies and three bogeys in her round of 68 (-4).
