WATERLOO, Ont. -- Top-ranked Inbee Park took a well-earned break last week after winning her third major of the season. She was refreshed for her first round at the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic on Thursday and quickly picked up where she left off. Park opened with an impressive 6-under-par 65 under mostly sunny skies at Grey Silo Golf Course. The South Korean was two shots behind American Angela Stanford and Catriona Matthew of Scotland. Park is looking to become the first golfer to win four straight LPGA Tour events since Lorena Ochoa in 2008. "Golf is a sport where you could miss the cut this week and you could win next week," Park said. "Theres a lot of imbalance in this game and to keep this kind of level going for four weeks, five weeks, six in a row is a very tough thing to do. We really have to be strong mentally, you have to be physically strong. "Everythings got to work perfect to win that many tournaments in a row I think. You could win six, seven tournaments a year, but I think its really tough to do in a streak, like in a row." It took a tremendous round from Matthew to leapfrog Park on the leaderboard. The veteran Scot carded a career-best 18-hole score of 63 to top her previous best of 64, which she carded on four separate occasions. Matthew had five birdies en route to a blistering 31 on the front nine and had just a single bogey on No. 12. She didnt miss a fairway and hit all but three greens in regulation. "I hit it close all day which gives you a lot of chances and then obviously I putted well," she said. "I gave myself a lot of chances but took advantage of them." Stanford joined her in top spot when she closed her round in the early evening with three straight birdies. "Today I hit it really good," she said. "So it was just one of those days that as a golfer you just love." Park was joined by American Irene Cho, Spains Belen Mozo and South Koreas Hee Young Park and Meena Lee at 65. American Ryann OToole and South Koreans Chella Choi, Jenny Shin, Amy Yang and Ji Young Oh were three shots off the lead at 66. Hamiltons Alena Sharp -- one of 10 Canadians in the field -- shot a 68. Defending champion Brittany Lang of the U.S. and Charlottetowns Lorie Kane opened with scores of 69. Players took advantage of soft conditions early in the day on the 6,330-yard course. Aggressive approach shots were rewarded before the greens started to dry up in the afternoon. "We were pretty much able to attack the pins this morning," Park said. "The next three days might be a little bit different if we dont get any more rain, might play a little harder." Warm temperatures and sunny skies are in the forecast through the final round of the US$1.3-million tournament on Sunday. The 24-year-old Park oozed confidence as she strolled down the fairways. She seemed very business-like and appeared to be in complete control of her game. Dressed in a white shirt and teal pants, Park raises the club with an oh-so-slow backswing before launching the ball with remarkable consistency. When she found her first bunker of the day in front of the 18th green, she casually blasted out to within a few feet of the hole and made the birdie putt. "I think it was an excellent round," she said. "I had a really good start this morning, five under through (eight) holes. I missed a couple opportunities on the back nine, but Im pleased with the way I played today. "I hit the ball great, I putted great." It was Parks best first-round score since she opened with a 7-under-par 65 at last years Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship. She went on to finish second at that event. Nancy Lopez holds the tour record with five consecutive victories in 1978, a mark equalled by Annika Sorenstam over the 2004-05 seasons. Park, who enters the tournament as the tour leader in seven statistical categories, has already won six times this season. 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When youre a top-five team with national title aspirations and NBA talent, and you score .82 points per possession and lose by 17 to an unranked opponent in your second game of the season, well, silver linings are hard to come by.Yet?Oregon?had one baked in before it took the court at Baylor on Tuesday, the same one it has had for much of the offseason: Its star player, junior preseason All-American guard Dillon Brooks -- a broad 6-foot-7 wing who led the team in usage, shot rate and assist rate last season -- would not be on the floor. Ergo, whatever happened in Waco, Texas, it would stay in Waco, Texas. Why freak out? The difference between Brooks-less and Brooks-led is the difference between spaghetti and noodles with ketchup. Besides, at some point in the near future, and possibly as early as next week, Brooks would end his recovery from offseason knee surgery. He would return to the lineup. Oregon would be fine.Lets just say Oregon coach Dana Altman -- who, according to The Oregonian, had a hoarse voice on Wednesday and began his media session by saying hes had better days -- did not find this premise to his liking.Im not going to let the guys off that easily, he said. Dillon is a guy that will help. He meant a great deal to our team last year and is a great player with a great passion for the game and that can rub off on his teammates. But thats really easy to let the guys off the hook that way. This team is a lot better, even without him, than what it showed yesterday, and thats what disappoints me.Two days later, Altmans theory prevailed, as did his team, in a 76-54 thrashing of Valparaiso. Its not just motivational coach speak: Oregon really can be fine -- which is to say, really good -- even with its best player on the bench.Or, rather, its most important player -- a distinction that may prove progressively more crucial throughout the 2016-17 season. It is difficult to imagine a situation in which Brooks is not only the teams fiery emotional leader but also its most central, most relied-upon piece.Brooks usage and shot shares a season ago werent crazy; he didnt gobble possessions like, say, Cals?Jaylen Brown.?What Brooks did do, though, was, well, everything. Synergy scouting data breaks down plays into types: spot up, isolation, cut, stuff like that. For the 2015-16 Ducks, Brooks had at least a top-three share of every type of play Synergy tracks. Post-ups, isos, hand-offs, offensive rebounds, setting the screen in the pick and roll, receiving the screen in the pick and roll, miscellaneous -- Brooks had a hand in every single slice of Altmans offense. This is not surprising, given Brooks matchup-problem mix of size and skill, but still. Oh, and he guards, too. Hes super important.And yet. If you saw what Chris Boucher did to Valparaiso Thursday night, you saw what sure looked like Oregons best player -- in the making, if not at the moment.Bouchers line is impressive enough on its own: 25 points, 9-of-12 shooting, 9 rebounds, 3 blocks, 1 steal. It barely touches on how good hhe really looked, though.ddddddddddddTake that steal. You see it in the box score. Do you even notice it? Does it even register? One steal. Whatever.Now look at it.That is a 6-foot-10 dude who began playing organized basketball at age 19, a guy whose path to Eugene is as unusual and unremarkable as any player in recent college basketball memory. That is a player who a year ago, in his first Division I season, sometimes looked lost ... and still, per SIs Luke Winn, became just the third major-conference player of this decade to average at least 17 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks per 40 minutes, with an offensive efficiency rating of at least 120 -- the others being Kentuckys former No. 1 draft picks?Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Davis.That video shows a center who might be the best shot-blocker in the country jumping a passing lane 30 feet from the rim, probably getting away with a travel (who cares!), going from midcourt to the rim in three dribbles, stepping and ripping through two defenders at full speed, and finishing with a dunk. Thats ... nuts.Boucher was already good a season ago, and he was efficient, if not assertive, in Oregons first two games. But it is moments like that which strike up that old?Joel Embiid?feeling -- the rush of watching a born savant learn the game at a frightening science-fiction pace.Boucher isnt the only reason to to be optimistic for the Brooks-less Ducks, however long they remain that way. Save some ongoing turnover woes, forward Jordan Bell is off to a really encouraging start; he finished with 15 points and seven rebounds on 7-of-13 from the field. Dylan Ennis has yet to play the kind of offensive hoop that made him a key piece of a No. 1-seeded Villanova squad in 2014-15 (hes just 2-of-13 from 3 thus far and has one more total turnover than assist), but he is already guarding the ball every bit as well, if not better, than he did during his tenure in Philly.The defense was impressive overall Thursday night. Valpo is a good team, the Horizon League favorite, with arguably the nations best mid-major player, Alec Peters, leading the way. A year ago, in Eugene, the Ducks trailed (an admittedly more experienced team not led by a first-year coach, but still) in the second half. They only narrowly escaped with a 73-67 win. Within the first few minutes of Thursdays second half, any chance of a tense repeat performance was gone.Now the Ducks will go to Maui. On Monday, theyll tip off against a struggling Georgetown team. Wiscon