Stephanie Meadow shot her third successive bogey-free round when she signed for an opening five-under 67 in the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea.

The Jordanstown star closed with bogey-free rounds of 66 and 65 to finish tied eighth in the Buick LPGA Shanghai on Sunday.

Now she's on course for another big week after her five-under 67 left her tied for 11th at Seowon Valley Country Club, five shots behind leader Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa.

Meadow is 66th in the Race to CME Globe standings with the top 60 guaranteed spots in the season-ending $7 million CME Group Tour Championship in Florida next month.

She knows bogey-free rounds are worth their weight in gold and is now on track to make it four in a row.

"It's huge," she said on Sunday. "It's one thing to make birdies, but it's also a huge thing to not be making bogeys."

Starting on the back nine, she birdied the 10th, 11th and 13th on the Seowon Hills course, then picked up further shots at the third and ninth.

Buhai didn't make any bogeys in her 10-under 62 to take a one-stroke lead over American Alison Lee with Japan's Ayaka Furue and Australia's Minjee Lee tied third after 64s.

In Japan, Collin Morikawa carded a six-under 64 to lead the PGA Tour's ZOZO Championship by a shot from compatriots Robbie Shelton and Eric Cole, Japan's Mikumu Horikawa, Denmark's Nicolai Hojgaard and Argentina's Emiliano Grillo.
Morikawa (26) turned in one-under before covering the back nine in five-under 31.

The two-time Major winner has not won since he captured the WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession, The Open and the DP World Tour Championship in 2021.

"Yeah, look, there's obviously a little bit more meaning to this tournament for me," said Morikawa, who is of Japanese heritage. "But look, a win's a win, I'll take a win anywhere, right? I'm doing everything I can the next three days and kind of tonight to make sure I give myself the best opportunity to do that."

Hojgaard wants to build on his winning Ryder Cup debut in Rome with a first PGA Tour win.

"It was a great week, couldn't have gone any better," the Dane said of the Ryder Cup. "That experience, obviously seeing the best players up close, seeing how they do and what you can learn from them and also giving you confidence in your own game, being part of a group that won the Ryder Cup back, yeah, it was the best week. Now we're trying to build on that."

Zac Blair was alone in seventh after a four-under 66 with Satoshi Kodaira, Joel Dahmen, Xander Schauffele, Will Gordon, Sahith Theegala, Sungjae Im, Cam Davis, Keegan Bradley and Andrew Novak tied for eighth following 67s.