Lexi Thompson solid, Beau Hossler leads at PGA Tour's Shriners - ESPN

LAS VEGAS — Lexi Thompson kept a rough round from getting worse and wound up holding her own Thursday in the Shriners Children's Open until darkness kept her from finishing.

Beau Hossler set the pace by matching his career low on the PGA Tour with a 9-under 62, which included a tee shot that found the water left of the par-3 17th at the TPC Summerlin.

Thompson was the main attraction of this FedEx Cup fall event, the seventh woman to play a PGA Tour event and the first in five years.

She was 1-over par for her round through 16 holes and chose to mark her ball — a 20-foot par putt on the 17th — and return to finish the first round Friday at 10:45 a.m. ET. Still in play was a chance to make the cut, though it was hard work to keep her score around par.

«I played decent,» Thompson said. «I had one bad hole and a few iffy shots. But it's golf; it was kind of expected.»

Thompson took advantage on two of the par 5s for birdie, and she got a bonus with a birdie putt from inside 25 feet on the second hole that at least put her in red numbers. But through 17 holes, she had only five chances inside 20 feet.

It looked as through the round could get away from her on the front nine. She was even par when she came up short of the green on the par-4 seventh and had 12 feet for par. She ran that about 4 feet by and missed to make double bogey.

On the par-3 eighth, she came up well short in the rough, chipped about 25 feet by the hole and left her par putt 6 feet short. Facing another double bogey, she made that to limit the damage. Then, she drilled a 3-wood on the par-5 ninth that rolled on the firm fairway just onto the green to set up a two-putt birdie from 30 feet.

«I knew I could get a birdie as long as I hit that fairway,»