Brittany Lang (65) leads LPGA Tour event in

Alabama, Charley Hull (78) withdraws

CBSSports.com wire reports

PRATTVILLE, Alabama -- Brittany Lang birdied five of the first seven holes in windy conditions and shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic.
Added to the U.S. Solheim Cup team Monday as one of Juli Inkster's two captain's picks, Lang had a two-stroke lead over Tiffany Joh, Sydnee Michaels and Ryann O'Toole.

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"It was just one of those days. It was so enjoyable," said Lang (pictured). "I wasn't thinking about a whole lot. I was just super committed to seeing my shots. It was so much fun."
The 30-year-old Texan won the 2012 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic in Canada for her lone LPGA Tour title. She was second this year in the Ontario event and has three other top-10 finishes.
"I'm in a really nice place right now," Lang said. "I had one of my better years ... and the Solheim pick's over with. I'm just in a really comfortable place, so I just felt really relaxed out there."
Lang birdied Nos. 1, 3-5 and 7 in her morning round on the Senator Course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex. She birdied Nos. 11-12, dropped strokes on Nos. 13-14 and rebounded with birdies on Nos. 16-17.
"The birdies on 16 and 17 were pretty big after the bogeys on 13 and 14," Lang said. "Not stupid bogeys, small misses, but I stayed aggressive, so I was excited with that. Stayed aggressive and made two bogeys, but it was really good to birdie 16 and 17."
O'Toole had five birdies in a seven-hole stretch in the middle of her morning round.
"It's been windy all week, so I was expecting that," O'Toole said. "What I noticed was the greens were even faster than yesterday or Tuesday. ... It took me five holes to get really thinking that if you're above the hole, you just had to tap it. Breaks were breaking double of what you saw because of the speed change. So, it took me a little bit to get used to that."
Julieta Granada, Hyo Joo Kim, Ariya Jutanugarn, Therese Koelbaek and Simin Feng were three strokes back at 68.
Stacy Lewis, the 2012 winner, had a 70. Second last year in Prattville, she's coming off a playoff loss to Lydia Ko last week in the Canadian Pacific Women's Open.
"The golf course was playing really hard early this morning and I didn't really get anything going, then couldn't get any putts to fall there on the back nine, so kind of a frustrating day," Lewis said.
The third-ranked Lewis bogeyed the par-4 third hole and rallied with birdies on Nos. 8-9 and 11.
"The wind was blowing early this morning," Lewis said. "I don't think I ever hit 4-iron into the third hole before, so I was just hitting clubs into holes that I've never hit."
Lexi Thompson, the 2011 winner at age 16, opened with a 69.
Canadian teen Brooke Henderson had a 71. The 17-year-old Henderson, who has family roots in Scotland, won her first LPGA Tour title two weeks ago in Portland, Oregon.
Mi Jung Hur, the winner last year at a tournament-record 21-under 267, shot a 74. 
Charley Hull withdrew after posting a six-over 78
 Par 72 yardage, 6599

1	Brittany Lang	65	2:06 pm	-	-	-	F	-7	65
T2	Ryann O'Toole	67	1:55 pm	-	-	-	F	-5	67
T2	Sydnee Michaels	67	2:17 pm	-	-	-	F	-5	67
T2	Tiffany Joh	67	3:01 pm	-	-	-	F	-5	67
T5	Therese Koelbaek	68	8:00 am	-	-	-	F	-4	68
T5	Ariya Jutanugarn	68	8:44 am	-	-	-	F	-4	68
T5	Hyo-Joo Kim	68	8:55 am	-	-	-	F	-4	68
T5	Simin Feng	68	1:22 pm	-	-	-	F	-4	68
T5	Julieta Granada	68	2:17 pm	-	-	-	F	-4	68
T10	Katherine Kirk	69	8:00 am	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Sei-Young Kim	69	8:55 am	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Lexi Thompson	69	8:55 am	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Wei-Ling Hsu	69	9:17 am	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Carlie Yadloczky	69	9:39 am	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Laura Diaz	69	10:01 am	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Candie Kung	69	2:06 pm	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Janie Jackson	69	2:28 pm	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T10	Jackie Stoelting	69	2:39 pm	-	-	-	F	-3	69
T19	Ally McDonald	70	8:33 am	-	-	-	F	-2	70
T19	Austin Ernst	70	8:55 am	-	-	-	F	-2	70
T19	Xiyu Lin	70	9:06 am	-	-	-	F	-2	70
T19	Stacy Lewis	70	1:44 pm	-	-	-	F	-2	70
T19	Yani Tseng	70	1:44 pm	-	-	-	F	-2	70
T19	Dori Carter	70	2:39 pm	-	-	-	F	-2	70
T19	Ji Young Oh	70	3:01 pm	-	-	-	F	-2	70
T26	Ashleigh Simon	71	8:11 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Brooke Henderson	71	8:44 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Mi Hyang Lee	71	8:44 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Kim Kaufman	71	9:06 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Min Seo Kwak	71	9:06 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Alena Sharp	71	9:06 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Lee-Anne Pace	71	9:17 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Kris Tamulis	71	9:17 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Rachel Rohanna	71	9:28 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Jane Rah	71	9:50 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Paola Moreno	71	10:01 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Sadena Parks	71	10:01 am	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Sakura Yokomine	71	1:44 pm	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Jaye Marie Green	71	2:17 pm	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Nannette Hill	71	2:28 pm	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T26	Victoria Elizabeth	71	2:39 pm	-	-	-	F	-1	71
T42	Yueer Cindy Feng	72	8:00 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Dewi Claire Schreefel	72	8:00 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Ju Young Park	72	8:11 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Brooke Pancake	72	8:22 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Thidapa Suwannapura	72	8:33 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Mina Harigae	72	8:44 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Angela Stanford	72	8:44 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Marina Alex	72	8:55 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Minjee Lee	72	9:17 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Karlin Beck	72	9:39 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Kelly Tan	72	9:39 am	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	SooBin Kim	72	1:11 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Nontaya Srisawang	72	1:11 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Becky Morgan	72	1:22 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Giulia Sergas	72	1:22 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Shanshan Feng	72	1:55 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Anna Nordqvist	72	1:55 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Christina Kim	72	2:06 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Haru Nomura	72	2:06 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Celine Herbin	72	2:28 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Cydney Clanton	72	2:39 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Haeji Kang	72	2:50 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Jing Yan	72	2:50 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T42	Jeong Eun Lee	72	3:01 pm	-	-	-	F	E	72
T66	Jodi Ewart Shadoff	73	8:11 am	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Julie Yang	73	8:11 am	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Lisa Ferrero	73	8:33 am	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Caroline Masson	73	8:44 am	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Moriya Jutanugarn	73	8:55 am	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Jennifer Song	73	9:17 am	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Sarah Jane Smith	73	9:50 am	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Laetitia Beck	73	1:00 pm	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Emma De Groot	73	1:22 pm	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Hee Young Park	73	1:55 pm	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Kelly Shon	73	2:17 pm	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T66	Demi Runas	73	2:39 pm	-	-	-	F	+1	73
T78	Sue Kim	74	8:22 am	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Min Lee	74	9:17 am	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	P.K. Kongkraphan	74	9:28 am	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Ashli Bunch	74	10:01 am	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Meena Lee	74	10:01 am	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Kendall Dye	74	1:00 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Nicole Jeray	74	1:00 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Jee Young Lee	74	1:00 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Katy Harris	74	1:33 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Felicity Johnson	74	1:33 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Belen Mozo	74	1:33 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Sophia Popov	74	1:33 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Emma Talley	74	1:33 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	M.J. Hur	74	1:44 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Brittany Lincicome	74	1:55 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Chella Choi	74	2:06 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Karine Icher	74	2:06 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T78	Stacey Keating	74	2:39 pm	-	-	-	F	+2	74
T96	Natalie Sheary	75	8:00 am	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Chie Arimura	75	8:11 am	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Sarah Kemp	75	8:22 am	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Vicky Hurst	75	8:33 am	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Amy Anderson	75	9:06 am	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Elizabeth Nagel	75	9:39 am	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Paz Echeverria	75	1:11 pm	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Pernilla Lindberg	75	1:44 pm	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Ai Miyazato	75	1:55 pm	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Beatriz Recari	75	2:17 pm	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Lisa McCloskey	75	2:50 pm	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T96	Katie Burnett	75	3:01 pm	-	-	-	F	+3	75
T108	Marissa Steen	76	8:33 am	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Cheyenne Woods	76	8:33 am	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Maria Hernandez	76	9:28 am	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Louise Stahle	76	9:28 am	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Paula Reto	76	9:39 am	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Luciane Lee	76	10:01 am	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Sara Maude Juneau	76	1:00 pm	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Jacqui Concolino	76	1:11 pm	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Alison Walshe	76	2:17 pm	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Moira Dunn	76	2:28 pm	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Marta Sanz Barrio	76	2:28 pm	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Jennifer Gleason	76	2:50 pm	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T108	Kristy McPherson	76	2:50 pm	-	-	-	F	+4	76
T121	Jennifer Kirby	77	8:00 am	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Mallory Blackwelder	77	8:22 am	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Jenny Suh	77	8:22 am	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Krista Puisite	77	9:28 am	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Sandra Changkija	77	9:39 am	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Ayako Uehara	77	1:22 pm	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Susana Benavides	77	2:28 pm	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Heather Bowie Young	77	2:50 pm	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T121	Danah Bordner	77	3:01 pm	-	-	-	F	+5	77
T130	Kathleen Ekey	78	8:11 am	-	-	-	F	+6	78
T130	Birdie Kim	78	9:28 am	-	-	-	F	+6	78
T130	Asako Fujimoto	78	9:50 am	-	-	-	F	+6	78
T130	Candy Hannemann	78	9:50 am	-	-	-	F	+6	78
T130	Garrett Phillips	78	9:50 am	-	-	-	F	+6	78
T130	Jean Reynolds	78	1:00 pm	-	-	-	F	+6	78
T130	Amelia Lewis	78	1:11 pm	-	-	-	F	+6	78
T137	Stephanie Meadow	79	8:22 am	-	-	-	F	+7	79
T137	Giulia Molinaro	79	1:22 pm	-	-	-	F	+7	79
139	Silvia Cavalleri	80	3:01 pm	-	-	-	F	+8	80
	Eun-Hee Ji	78	WD
	Charley Hull	78	WD