India, July 11 -- Indian golfer Aditi Ashok opened with an erratic one-under 70 to be tied for the 35th position after the opening round of the Amundi Evian Championship, which is a Major on the women's circuit.

Aditi, a five-time winner on the Ladies European Tour and a champion at Hero Women's Indian Open in 2016, is playing the tournament for the ninth time, but has finished in Top-25 only once. She trails Japan's Aki Iwai by seven shots. Aditi had two birdies and two bogeys on the front side of the course and then one bogey and back-to-back birdies on the 14th and the 15th.

Iwai fired a bogey-free opening round of eight-under 63 to hold a two-stroke lead at the end of the first day of action. The 24-year-old teed off in the morning,...