Meadow has her work cut out to make Tour Championship

An opening-round 67 has Stephanie Meadow five strokes off the lead at the Pelican Championship in Florida.

Meadow more or less needs to win the tournament in order to make it into next week's LPGA Tour Championship. She sits on three-under-par, five strokes behind Mexico's Maria Fassi.

"For the ones not in CME [Tour Championship] next week, we would all love to be there. It's going to take a big week for me, but there is a chance, so as long as there is a chance I’m still going to try," said Meadow.

The Tour Championship is restricted to the top-60 money winners on Tour this season.

Leona Maguire, whose Tour Championship spot is wrapped up, shot a frustrating one-over-par 71 in the three-round Florida event.

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