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Marlen Esparza, one of the worlds top female amateur boxers, is going pro, signing a multi-year promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions on Wednesday.Esparza, who won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics in the flyweight division and just missed out on a 2016 Olympic berth, will make her professional debut in early 2017, Golden Boy president Eric Gomez said.I recently told my fans that I was going pro, and I am happy to announce that it will be the worlds best promotional company -- Golden Boy Promotions, Esparza said. I am excited to get back into the ring as soon as possible and start climbing the ladder towards winning a professional world title.Esparza, 27, of Houston, is the first female fighter signed by Golden Boy, which plans to become much more involved in womens boxing.We really want to jump into womens boxing, Gomez said. We feel she is someone who can revolutionize womens boxing in the U.S. and bring awareness and excitement. Womens boxing has been very successful around the world but were a little behind in the U.S. She is a smart young woman and she can fight.Esparza, who had around 200 amateur fights and lost about 12, won 12 consecutive U.S. national amateur championships and the flyweight gold medal at the 2014 world amateur championships.She said she wants a world title as a professional and is very confident she will achieve her goal.This is a profession and a career for me but could I win a world title tomorrow? I could, she told ESPN. I could win it tomorrow but I want to do things correctly and fight my way to the top and do things the way they are supposed to be done, move my way up. I want to earn what I get. What I see myself doing is winning a world title when the time is right and when my team says its OK.Im kind of for the first time feeling Ive arrived. Ive done so many things, but this (signing with Golden Boy) is something I feel I deserve. I am so ready for this. Im not scared, Im ready.She said she plans to get back into training right away and will go to England to train over the holidays with her good friend Nicola Adams, who won flyweight Olympic gold medals for Great Britain in 2012 and 2016.Beyond her ring success, Esparza will come into the pro ranks already having established herself commercially. She has an endorsement deal with CoverGirl cosmetics and has appeared in Spanish-language television ads for Coca-Cola and McDonalds, among others.Before she ever steps foot into the ring as a professional, Marlen Esparza has already established herself as a rising star, Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya said. At Golden Boy Promotions, we pride ourselves on developing fighters and transforming them into the best of the best. We look forward to doing the same with Marlen. 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I just hit a nice little high-cut driver just right of the pin. It landed nice and soft and kind of fed down there. ... I swore it was going to go in. On the par-5 18th, the U.S. Womens Open champion rattled the flagstick on the first hop with a wedge, leaving a putt a couple of inches longer than the one on 15. She had the eagle and five birdies in the bogey-free round in calm, cool conditions at Sky 72.It was a very enjoyable day, Lang said. The greens are really firm, but roll really nice. It was such a perfect day of weather.Lang had a 10-under 134 total. The 31-year-old American won the U.S. Womens Open in July at CordeValle in California, beating Anna Nordqvist in a playoff.Solheim Cup teammate Alison Lee, the first-round leader after a 65, had a 70 to fall a stroke back. She chipped in for eagle on 15 to match Lang, then bogeyed the 18th. The 21-year-old UCLA student drove in the left rough and hit her third over the green into more rough, leaving a downhill flop that raced 7 feet past.Overall today, I feel like I played pretty well shooting 2 under. Unfortunately, on the back nine I struggled a bit, Lee said. I didnt make any of the putts I looked at on the back. I missed a lot of birdie putts coming down. On 10, I actually three-putted. I think thats what got me scared. I just couldnt get the ball in the hole.Cristie Kerr made it an all-Solheim Cup final threesome Saturday, shoooting a 65 to reach 7 under on the Jack Nicklaus-designed Ocean Course.ddddddddddddSouth Koreas Sung Hyun Park also was 7 under after a 65. The Korean LPGA player tied for second behind Lexi Thompson last year, opening with a 62.I dont think I have a particular strategy for this course, but I think its a course thats definitely advantageous for long hitters, Park said.Pak retired after her first-round 80, ending her career in South Koreas lone LPGA Tour event. She won 25 LPGA Tour titles -- the last in 2010 -- and five majors, two of them during a rookie season in 1998 that was a catalyst for the boom in South Korean and Asian womens golf.I was definitely teary eyed. A lot of girls around me were teary eyed, Lee said about Paks retirement ceremony Thursday. Just showed what a huge impact she had on all of us. It was really cool to see.Lee is winless on the tour.Its a huge goal/dream of mine to win out here, Lee said. Im going to do my best to try not to think about it the next few days and just play golf, and hopefully everything will just fall into place.South Koreas In-Kyung Kim , the winner two weeks ago in China in the first of six straight events in Asia, was 6 under along with Frances Karine Icher . They each shot 70.Thompson was tied for seventh at 5 under after a 69. She and Lang are the only U.S. winners this year.Ha Na Jang , the winner last week in Taiwan for her third victory of the year, was 3 under after a 70. Shanshan Feng, second in Taiwan after tying for fourth at home in China, had a 69 to reach 2 under.Brooke Henderson, the Canadian teen playing the third of six straight weeks in Asia, had four bogeys in a 73 to drop to 1 under.Top-ranked Lydia Ko followed her opening 75 with a 69 to get to even par. She has four victories this year, one behind second-ranked Ariya Jutanugarn for the tour lead. Jutanugarn was 2 over after her second straight 73. ' ' '