Guadalajara, Mexico (My Sportsbook) - Song-Hee Kim carded a seven-under 65 Thursday to grab a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

Jiyai Shin, who tops the LPGA Tour money list and is also on top of the player of the year race, opened with a five-under 67. She is tied for second place with Paula Creamer and Mariajo Uribe.

Catriona Matthew and Eun-Hee Ji share fifth at minus-four at Guadalajara Country Club.

Tournament host Ochoa carded a one-under 71 and is tied for 13th. She managed three birdies and two bogeys in her opening round.

Kim got going with birdies on the third and fifth before really catching fire. After a par on six, she birdied the seventh to get to three-under.

The 21-year-old South Korean kept rolling with birdies on eight and nine to make the turn at minus-five. Kim drained her fourth consecutive birdie chance at the 10th to move to six-under.

Kim easily maintained her lead with seven straight pars from the 11th. She closed with a birdie on the par-five 18th to push her lead to two strokes.

"I was very relaxed because I just came from Korea," Kim said. "I am still very tired from the time change, so I'm trying to not play too hard. I just want to play easy."

Shin birdied four of the first six holes to quickly move up the leaderboard. After stumbling to a bogey on the par-three eighth, Shin birdied three of four holes from the 10th to get to six-under. However, she also bogeyed the 16th to end two back.

"I played very well today. I still have jet-lag, though," admitted Shin, who like Kim played at the Mizuno Classic in Japan last week. "I made birdie [on the first hole], and I kept that good feeling for 18 holes."

Creamer birdied the first but gave that stroke back with a bogey on No. 3. She bounced back with a birdie on the fifth and turned in three-under thanks to birdies on eight and nine.

Around the turn, Creamer birdied 12 and 13 to move to five-under. She parred the final five holes to end there.

Uribe collected back-to-back birdies from the fourth and turned in minus-three after making birdie on the ninth. Birdies on 12 and 13 got her to five-under, but Uribe bogeyed the 14th. She atoned for that mistake with a birdie on 16 to share second place.

Cristie Kerr, Brittany Lincicome and Brittany Lang are tied for seventh at three-under 69. Michelle Wie, Katherine Hull and M.J. Hur are one stroke back at minus-two.

Defending champion Angela Stanford opened with a one-over 73 and she is tied for 24th, eight strokes off the pace.