It was, however, a round more akin to a roller coaster ride than a pleasant walk for the young Victorian gun around the spectacular Bonville layout.

When Bunque made a two-metre eagle putt on the par-5 14th at Bonville Golf Resort, she had raced out to a three-shot lead.

Her next three holes made for interesting reading; bogey, birdie, and a rinsed tee shot on the signature 17th for an ill-timed double bogey.

Thankfully, a timely par was still enough for Bunque to finish the day with a one-shot lead from South Australian Kristalle Blum.

Bunque admitted the late mistakes were “unfortunate” but was still happy to be holding the lead.

“The double on 17 was an untimely bad shot. I did hit a couple of weird shots throughout the round, so the one on 17 wasn’t something that I hadn’t experienced earlier in the day so at the end of the day it was kind of an untimely error which was a bit unfortunate but four-under is still a pretty tidy round,” Bunque said.

“There was an eagle in there and a few putts dropped when they probably shouldn’t have and a few putts missed when they probably shouldn’t have so at the end of the day it was a good day, I’m happy with it.”

Blum started her day in tremendous fashion with a birdie on the 1st hole.

It was a hole that more than a third of the field recorded a bogey or worse on, but Blum’s laser-like 8-iron approach helped set her up for a good day.

“On a hole like that you sort of feel like that (a birdie) is good, let’s try and keep it going from there,” Blum said.

“You always feel better when you make a birdie early and that sort of hole you’d be happy to walk off with par every day of the week.”

Blum made a further three birdies throughout the day, including the 13th hole, which meant she birdied the two holes that had given her the most trouble in the past.

Danni Vasquez, Breanna Gill, New Zealander Wenyung Keh, Ella Scaysbrook and 15-year-old amateur Ann Jang all recorded rounds of 70 to be tied for third place just two strokes behind the leader.