Golf roundup
Grover surges into Bay Hill Classic lead ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Lucas Glover might wish the PGA Tour came to Orlando more often.
Five months after a stunning victory down the road at Disney, Glover surged into the lead Friday at the Bay Hill Invitational with birdies on two of his last three holes for his second straight 5-under 67 and a one-shot lead over Robert Allenby and Rod Pampling.
Halfway through a sun-baked tournament, Glover has a chance to join some elite company. Tiger Woods and the late Payne Stewart are the only players to win individual titles at both Orlando events on the PGA Tour, and Woods is the only player to win them consecutively.
Glover, a 26-year-old from South Carolina, can’t explain his success in these parts. He only hopes it continues.
“I think Tiger even said it – if you’re playing well, you don’t mind where you’re playing,” said Glover, who was at 10-under 134 on a Bay Hill Club course that was getting firmer and tougher.
Scores remained bunched, with more than a dozen players within five shots of the lead.
Woods wasn’t among them.
He rarely hit it close to the flag all afternoon, the exception coming at the par-5 sixth with an approach over the water to 8 feet for eagle. He followed that with a three-putt bogey from 25 feet, and wound up with a 1-under 71 to finish seven shots off the lead.
That might not seem like much, but there were two dozen players ahead of him, all of them carefully navigating their way through the fairways lined by thick rough.
LPGA Tour
SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, Ariz. – Sarah Lee eagled the 513-yard, par-5 18th hole to finish 12 under and grab a 1-stroke lead over Aree Song after two rounds of the Safeway International.
Paula Creamer, the 2005 LPGA Rookie of the Year, and Suzann Pettersen were tied for third, two strokes back.
Lee, a South Korean in her fifth year on tour, has never won an LPGA event.
Lee opened the day one shot behind Song, then was in jeopardy of falling out of contention when she double-bogeyed the par-4 3rd hole to fall to 6 under.
Lee recovered to birdie the par-4 5th hole. She reeled off birdies on the par-4 14th, the par-4 15th and the par-3 17th.
Champions Tour
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Bob Eastwood shot a 6-under par 65 to take the first-round lead at the Toshiba Classic on Friday with Graham Marsh and Bruce Lietzke a stroke behind.
Eastwood had seven birdies, including a chip-in from 12 feet in front of the green on the final hole to break a three-way tie.
Dave Eichelberger was a shot back of the leaders at 4-under 67. Ten players were at 68, including Lanny Wadkins and Peyter Jacobsen.