Feng growing more comfortable with her view from the summit

Feng Shanshan returned to the Lotte Championship in style on Wednesday by shooting a 5-under 67 to top the leaderboard after the first round, but the Chinese golfer said she is still coming to terms with the fact she is world No 1.

Feng skipped the Lotte event last year for the first time since it was added to the LPGA Tour in 2012 amid a diplomatic squabble between China and South Korea, the home country of the tournament's sponsor.

Feng, who has been the world's top-ranked women's golfer for the past 22 weeks, said she never could have imagined becoming No 1 when she started playing the game as a 10-year-old in China, where she had little access to quality training facilities and could only get on a course once per week.