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Icher starts hot, Ko and Lewis lurk in Canada

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Aug 20, 2015; Coquitlam, British Columbia, CAN; Jaye Marie Green from hits the ball from the tee during …

(Reuters) - France's Karine Icher upstaged big names Lydia Ko and Stacy Lewis to storm to a two-shot lead after the opening round of the Canadian Pacific Women's Open in Vancouver on Thursday.

Icher, a runner up to Ko in 2013 at the event, took apart Vancouver Golf Club with a bogey-free seven-under-65.

A five-time winner on the Ladies European Tour, but not since 2005, the 36-year-old burst out of a funk to take charge and build a two-shot lead from New Zealand's world number two Ko.