Roundup: Haas fires 66 at Legends of Golf
Leader surprised after missing cut at PGA Tour event
SAVANNAH, GA. - Jay Haas, seeking his first win of the season, breezed to a two-stroke lead Friday in the first round of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.
Haas, who splits his time between the Champions Tour and the regular PGA Tour, shot a 6-under-par 66 at The Club at Savannah Harbor. Mark McNulty, Tom Wargo, Jerry Pate and Gil Morgan each shot 68s over the wind-swept, 7,087-yard island layout in the middle of the Savannah River.
"I'm a little surprised, to tell you the truth," said Haas, who missed the cut last weekend at the Verizon Heritage, a PGA Tour event at nearby Hilton Head, S.C. "I hadn't been playing that well lately."
Haas started fast with a wedge to within 5 feet for birdie at the first hole, chipped in for birdie at the par-5 fourth, blasted from a greenside bunker to inside 3 feet for birdie at No. 11 and rolled in putts of 19 and 23 feet for birdies at Nos. 14 and 15.
In other tournaments
• Webb stays hot, trails by 2 — Karrie Webb picked right up where she left off at her last tournament.
Looking again like a dominating force on the LPGA Tour, Webb followed her win in the first major of the year — the Kraft Nabisco Championship — with a second straight 5-under 67, leaving her two strokes off the lead in the Florida's Natural Charity Championship.
Sung Ah Yim charged to the top with a 64 at Eagle's Landing Country Club south of Atlanta, pushing her 36-hole total to a 12-under 132.
• Stenson holds le ad — Sweden's Henrik Stenson held his one stroke lead at the BMW Asian Open in Shanghai, China, after the second round was suspended by rain.
SAVANNAH, GA. - Jay Haas, seeking his first win of the season, breezed to a two-stroke lead Friday in the first round of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.
Haas, who splits his time between the Champions Tour and the regular PGA Tour, shot a 6-under-par 66 at The Club at Savannah Harbor. Mark McNulty, Tom Wargo, Jerry Pate and Gil Morgan each shot 68s over the wind-swept, 7,087-yard island layout in the middle of the Savannah River.
"I'm a little surprised, to tell you the truth," said Haas, who missed the cut last weekend at the Verizon Heritage, a PGA Tour event at nearby Hilton Head, S.C. "I hadn't been playing that well lately."
Haas started fast with a wedge to within 5 feet for birdie at the first hole, chipped in for birdie at the par-5 fourth, blasted from a greenside bunker to inside 3 feet for birdie at No. 11 and rolled in putts of 19 and 23 feet for birdies at Nos. 14 and 15.
In other tournaments
• Webb stays hot, trails by 2 — Karrie Webb picked right up where she left off at her last tournament.
Looking again like a dominating force on the LPGA Tour, Webb followed her win in the first major of the year — the Kraft Nabisco Championship — with a second straight 5-under 67, leaving her two strokes off the lead in the Florida's Natural Charity Championship.
Sung Ah Yim charged to the top with a 64 at Eagle's Landing Country Club south of Atlanta, pushing her 36-hole total to a 12-under 132.
• Stenson holds le ad — Sweden's Henrik Stenson held his one stroke lead at the BMW Asian Open in Shanghai, China, after the second round was suspended by rain.
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