Paula Creamer leads Evian Championship with 1st-round 64

Paula Creamer is leading a major tournament again, shooting a bogey-free, 7-under-par 64 Thursday in the sweltering first round of the Evian Championship in Evian-les-bains, France.

When the Pleasanton native last topped a major leaderboard, she won the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open by four strokes to get her ninth title on the LPGA tour.

At the Evian Resort Golf Club, where she had a signature win as a teenager, the 32-year-old moved one shot clear after making her seventh birdie on the par-5 18th as temperatures rose to 95 degrees in the French heatwave.

“I feel really just in control,” said Creamer, now ranked No. 156 and whose last top-10 finish in a major and last tournament win were both in 2014. “It’s been several years where I felt like just all-in-all good in my shoes.”

At 6-under were Brittany Altomare, who earned a career-best runner-up finish in Evian in 2017, seven-time major winner Inbee Park, second-ranked Jin Young Ko, and Mi Hyang Lee.

• Jon Rahm matched his career low with an 8-under 62 in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis, taking advantage of nearly perfect greens to open a three-stroke lead in the World Golf Championships event.

Bubba Watson, Hideki Matsuyama, Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Smith and Shugo Imahira shot 65. Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter were among six players at 66.

• Four Americans — Wes Short Jr., Scott Dunlap, Scott Parel and Ken Duke — topped the Senior British Open leaderboard, together with England’s Paul Broadhurst, when first-round play was suspended because of fading light at Lytham St. Annes, England.

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