"It definitely moved, but from her angle there is no way you can see it," Hurst said. "It moved on camera. I think to the naked eye it's tough to see unless you are at the right angle. The cameras were at the right angle.
"It's unfortunate that the TVs were on it at that time because nobody saw it. It's unfortunate, but it's just the way it is. You just got to deal with it."
Sorenstam, winless since September 2006, had seven birdies and two bogeys.
"I'm very pleased," Sorenstam said. "I had a lot of chances. ... It's a little easier when you know the golf course. And today, I learned from yesterday."
She hit an 8-iron to 2 inches on the 139-yard 14th.
"It was almost a hole-in-one," she said. "It's the closest I've been in a long time. That's the thing on this golf course, you need to be precise with your irons and you need some good breaks around the green so that you end up on the right tier and on the right side of the pin."
Sidelined nearly two months this season because of neck and back injuries, Sorenstam has won at least one LPGA Tour event every year since 1995.
"This year is just so different," she said. I think I would care if I would have had a normal season and wouldn't win. This year, I played 11 tournaments and about half of them I haven't been competitive, so that really gives me six tournaments to try to win and that's not easy. I'll do my best and would love to continue the streak, but I'm not going to be too hard on myself because the competition is out there and if you only had five or six tournaments trying to win, it's no guarantee."
Hurst holed out from the fairway for eagle on the 354-yard 18th.
"I had 115 yards, and I hit a wedge and that was it," Hurst said.
The ball flew straight into the hole.
"I was just trying to make the hole bigger for everybody," she said.
