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DALY CITY, Calif. nfl jerseys china . -- Karine Icher and her caddie husband, Fred, evaluated the conditions and course at challenging Lake Merced and decided on a Day 1 strategy: stay short of the pin and putt uphill. The move worked beautifully, and Icher delivered the most consistent performance on a day there werent many in the debut of the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. "I think its the key on this course," Icher said. "Its a tough golf course, especially with the wind and temperature. It gets so cold. You try to stay warm and try to catch the right wind and go with it and make some putts." The Frenchwoman birdied four of her first seven holes and finished with a 6-under 66 on Thursday to take the lead, two strokes ahead of Lydia Ko and several others. Afterward, Icher was off to pick up 2-year-old daughter, Lola, from the tours childrens care and head to dinner. The start was delayed two hours because of fog and play was suspended because of darkness with 24 players still on the course. Icher had a bogey-free round and hit all but one green in regulation. Many struggled off the tee or with their putters on speedy, tricky greens on a cool day with plenty of wind and hovering fog not far off the Pacific Ocean. The gallery sang "Happy Birthday" to Ko on her 17th birthday as she started from the first tee, and Ko came through with a 68 on a day she was also named among TIME magazines 100 most influential people. Kos group barely beat the horn for darkness. "I wanted to finish today," she said, acknowledging the birthday song was "kind of embarrassing" but much-appreciated. Morgan Pressel birdied four of her first eight holes and was among the players sitting three strokes back at 69. Mo Martin also shot a 69 after warming up four times before finally hitting her first tee shot following the fog delay. Pressel, whose round began on the back nine, went to 4 under at the turn. Top-ranked Inbee Park opened with a 73 in the $1.8 million event, while second-ranked Suzann Pettersen had a 70 in her first tournament since missing three events with a back injury. On the par-4 11th, a frustrated Pettersen made an 8-foot putt for triple-bogey to fall from 3 under to even par before bouncing back. Michelle Wie, coming off her first win in nearly four years last week in her home state of Hawaii, finished at even-par 72. Those who were still on the course will play resume their rounds Friday morning, so many will have a quick turnaround after a short break. Tee times remained the same. Pressel also had a sizzling first round in Phoenix last month, going 9 under through her first 11 holes in the JTBC Founders Cup and chasing a 59. But Pressel bogeyed two straight holes and wound up with a 7-under 65. On Thursday, she recovered for par on holes 16 and 18 after both tee shots missed the fairway. On the forgiving par-5, 532-yard 18th, Pressels drive ricocheted off a tree and landed in a more favourable lie to the right of the fairway. She nearly put her third shot onto the green but the ball kicked back a couple of feet shy. "It was actually a bit of a struggle out there. My short game kept me in it. I stayed patient," Pressel said. "I stayed tough. Its a tough golf course. I knew nobody was going to go out there and blitz it." Martin played through more fog, and even wondered whether there might be a second delay. The LPGA is back in the Bay Area for the first time since 2010, and San Francisco provided exactly the kind of day that so perfectly represents this region and its unpredictable weather patterns. Martin sported an "L" charm necklace in memory of her grandfather, Lincoln Martin, who died last month at age 102. One of her biggest supporters since they reconnected 10 years ago, he last travelled to a tournament in Rochester, N.Y., last year. He ate vanilla ice cream on his chocolate crisped rice cereal -- with half and half to boot -- for breakfast every morning. He also had several U.S. patents. "It would be really hard to do him justice in a couple sentences, but greatest person Ive ever met," she said. "Changed my life when I got to know him in the last 10 years. Most peaceful person Ive ever met. ... Everybody out here loved him. He followed womens golf and was a fan of everyone." Angela Stanford and Se Ri Pak withdrew Thursday, and neither provided a reason to tournament officials. wholesale nfl jerseys . The game has been rescheduled for Tuesday at 4:05 p.m. Tickets for Monday will be honoured Tuesday. The forecast Monday calls for heavy rain throughout the day. cheap jerseys . -- San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks was fined $15,570 by the NFL on Wednesday for his hit on Saints quarterback Drew Brees last Sunday. PHOENIX -- These one-run games are practically an everyday thing for the Pittsburgh Pirates this season. Winning them, however, hasnt been as routine. Which made Wednesdays 2-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks a little more satisfying. The Pirates won their fourth one-run game in eight tries this season. A bloop single from Neil Walker to right-centre field with two outs in the eighth inning providing the go-ahead run. Clint Barmes scored from second base on the third of three straight singles with two out, the last of those by Walker off reliever David Hernandez. "As many games as we played last year, one-run, I know that theres a different feel," Walker said. "There was a little more anxiety than there is now. You can tell our nerves are way more calm than last year. One-run games in the big leagues? Thats big time." The Pirates ended a West Coast road trip with three wins in their final four games after an 0-5 start, and won a series in Arizona for the first time since 2005. Walker admitted he broke his bat on the hit. "That is kind of sweet retribution for all the balls you hit hard that have been caught," he said. Walker entered the game with a .243 batting average and hit into two double plays Wednesday. Teammate Pedro Alvarez was thrilled, if not relieved, to record his second hit of the season -- and second home run -- in 27 at-bats. Alvarez homered in the seventh on a 2-0 pitch from Daniel Hudson (1-1) to tie it at 1. "Just glad I was able to put a good piece on it. Good things happen when you make good contact," Alvarez said. He raised his batting average 32 points to .074. Chris Resop and Tony Watson combined to pitch a scoreless eighth inning, and Juan Cruz earned his second save in as many games for the Pirates, who were without closer Joel Hanrahan due to a strained hamstring that forced him out of the past three games. Hudson pitched 7 2-3 innings but got the loss because hed allowed Barmes to reach base. He allowed two runs on six hits and struck out five. "I was able to make a couple of pitches early on," Hudson said. "Late in the game I couldnt gett that third out. cheap jerseys from china. . Another thing I have to go through, I have to push through and get batters out." The Diamondbacks went ahead 1-0 after leadoff man Willie Bloomquist tripled and scored on Jason Kubels single in the first. It was the 10th game in 12 overall in which Arizona has scored in the opening inning. Arizona turned three double plays in the first four innings. Pirates starter James McDonald lasted four innings and threw 78 pitches. Brad Lincoln (1-0), making his first major league appearance of the season after being called up earlier in the day, relieved McDonald and tossed three shutout innings, striking out four. He escaped a jam in the sixth with a double play with runners on first and third. Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said he was concerned that McDonald threw 33 pitches in the first inning, and decided to get him out of the game for a pinch hitter in the top of the fifth. "I cant let a young man throw 40 pitches in an inning," Hurdle said. "Its command. Its repeating his delivery. Its getting strike one. ... Weve got to get that thing down around 15 pitches an inning." Lincoln earned the win after not sleeping the night before. He flew into Phoenix from Indianapolis in the wee hours of the morning. "Keep working hard, and good things will happen," Lincoln said. "Theres always that opportunity and youve just got to be ready for it." NOTES: The Pirates placed RHP Jeff Karstens on the 15-day disabled list before the game because of right shoulder inflammation. The club recalled Lincoln from Triple-A Indianapolis, where he was 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in 12 innings. ... Karstens (0-1 in three games) started Tuesdays game but left after one inning. ... Pirates RHP A.J. Burnett (orbital bone surgery) is expected to make a fourth rehabilitation start Saturday with Double-A Altoona. ... All five of the Diamondbacks losses this season have been by a single run. ... Hudsons loss was the first for a Diamondbacks starting pitcher this season. ... Arizona OF Justin Upton was used as a pinch runner in the ninth, though he is unable to hit due to a left thumb injury. cheap jerseys cheap jerseys from china ' ' '