Maja Stark shares the lead with Indian Amandeep Drall.

- I hit a little crooked from the tee so I was quite often in the woods.

But I managed to avoid the bogeys.

The putting was pretty good and I hit some good irons, says Stark on the tour's website

- Last week I made some idiotic mistakes in the last nine, but this week the plan is to avoid them.

Instead, she made two bogeys at the start of the round, on holes two and nine, on the Coolangatta & Tweed Heads course.

Julia Engström is two strokes behind Stark in a shared seventh place and Johanna Gustavsson is another stroke behind.