American veteran Beth Bader fired an eight-under par 64 on Friday to take a one-shot lead after one round of the LPGA Safeway Classic.

Bader notched her score early, before wind picked up and rain began at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club near Portland. Anna Nordqvist, Sweden's LPGA Champion, was tied for second with South Korea's Seon Hwa Lee on 65.

"It's nice to get off to a good start," said Bader, who posted her best round since 2007. "I've had a tendency of not getting off to a very good start and I haven't been able to come back from that."

Nordqvist had seven birdies without a bogey.

"I thought I hit my irons beautiful today," said Nordqvist. "I hit a lot of them close for a lot of putts. You just have to stay patient and keep hitting greens and fairways. I think that was key. I had a lot of great opportunities, and I made a couple coming in."

Lee also had seven birdies and no bogeys, capping her round with back-to-back birdies at 17 and 18. She said her putter was the key to her round.

"I played really solid today," she said. "I missed a couple greens, but I had a great up-and-down, and my putter was really good today. I think I made almost every putt. Yeah, my putting was really good today."

Britain's Janice Moodie led a group of four players on 66, which also included Taiwan's Candie Kung and Americans Angela Stanford and Stacy Prammanasudh.

Defending champion Cristie Kerr had a 69, playing in a star-studded group with Michelle Wie and Mexico's Lorena Ochoa.

Kerr botched a chip from the rough at 18 to bogey her closing hole.

Just before she chipped, the US Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration squadron, in the area for a nearby air show, roared past.

"It was an interesting day," Kerr said. "I hit it pretty bad, pretty poorly."

Ochoa carded a 70, while Wie birdied the final hole for a 68.

"It was pretty cool," said Wie, who drained a 30-footer for her birdie and raised her arms in triumph when it fell. "And I called it, too."

Wie and Kerr were on the US Solheim Cup team that beat Europe last week in the biennial match play tournament. Ten of the team's 12 players are in the field here. There would have been more, but Paul Creamer withdrew complaining of illness.

Wie said the energy of her first Solheim Cup had carried over.

"It was fun out there today," she said. "I thought after last week it was going to be anticlimactic, but there were a lot of fans out there and they were really riled up to see us play."

The tournament moved this year from Columbia Edgewater Country Club near Portland's airport, where it was played for 19 years. Pumpkin Ridge is west of the city.