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A18 SPORTS
Saturday 25 May 2019
Broadhurst, Toledo vault to Senior PGA Championship lead

By JOHN WAWROW were two strokes back.
AP Sports Writer Parel shot 73, making con-
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — De- secutive double bogeys
fending champion Paul on Nos. 17 and 18. Goosen
Broadhurst and Esteban To- had a 72.
ledo shared the lead Friday There were 21 players with-
two rounds into the Senior in six shots of the leaders.
PGA Championship. The group includes Jesper
Another day of unsettled Parnevik and Rocco Medi-
weather led to a shuffle ate at 2 over, and Corey
of the leaderboard with Pavin and Brandt Jobe
Broadhurst and Toledo among seven players at 3
vaulting 15 players at the over.
major event. Both shot The narrow 6,800-yard East
3-under 67 to reach 3-un- Course reclaimed its stingy
der 137 at Oak Hill Country reputation on a day that
Club's East Course. featured a chilly start and
Broadhurst, who won last temperatures remaining
year's tournament at Har- mostly in the 60s, overcast
bor Shores in southwest conditions and a swirling
Michigan, carded a bogey- wind. The breeze didn't die
free round. Starting on the down until the sun came
back nine, he birdied his out in the late afternoon.
first two holes — the par-4 After 15 players carded Paul Broadhurst watches his shot from the 12th tee during the second round of the Senior PGA
10th and par-3 11th — and sub-par scores in the open- Championship golf tournament at Oak Hill on Friday, May 24, 2019, in Pittsford, N.Y.
added a birdie on the par- ing round, only four man- Associated Press
4 seventh. The 53-year-old aged to shoot in the 60s on
Englishman has five PGA Friday. Aside from Broad- weather in store for the by 2 hours, 15 minutes. groups to be in contention
Tour Champions victories, hurst and Toledo, Cham- third round. With thunder- Mother Nature clearly fa- with a two-round score of
also winning a major at the pions Tour money leader storms in the forecast Sat- vored the players who 1-over 141.
2016 Senior British Open. Scott McCarron and Mike urday afternoon, officials teed off Thursday morning After opening with a bo-
Toledo had five birdies and Goodes both shot 69 to moved up the third-round and Friday afternoon. They gey-free round of 3 under,
two bogeys. The 56-year- move into a tie for 42nd. tee times to between 7 and accounted for 26 of the 29 Dawson went 4 over on Fri-
old from Mexico won the The cut was set at 9-over 9:12 a.m., with groups go- players who are 4 over or day in a round he closed
last of his four senior titles in 149, halving the 156-play- ing out in threes rather than better through two rounds. with five bogeys — four on
2016. er field to 78 entering the twos. A series of late-morn- Marco Dawson was among his final eight holes — with a
First-round leader Scott weekend. ing storms led to the open- the few from the Thursday- lone birdie on the 439-yard
Parel and Retief Goosen There's more unsettled ing round being delayed afternoon/Friday-morning par-4 16th.q

COLONIAL among xx at 5 under. his five bogeys.
Continued from Previous Page Blixt, a three-time tour win- "I thought today was aver-
"Fits my game. You've got ner, had a little more suc- age; I thought yesterday
to take advantage of those cess navigating the wind was spectacular," Spi-
weeks because there is not than Na in the first round, eth said "Today I missed
too many golf courses like shooting 67. Both were maybe an 8-footer and a
this on tour anymore." thinking more about hang- couple 5-footers, but then
Blixt, a three-time winner ing on while hoping to I made a couple long ones
playing with Na, holed out make a move in the sec- to make up for it. They
from 132 yards for eagle on ond round. were kind of misreads.
No. 17 and shot 64 to reach Na didn't waste any time, They weren't bad strokes.
9 under. Finau, playing the hitting his second shot to 3 That's the difference."
back nine first, started with feet for the easy eagle be- Rickie Fowler missed the
nine straight pars before fore three birdies on putts cut by one shot at 3 over,
three birdies and a bogey of at least 30 feet. After ending a streak of 21
on his final nine for a 68. Blixt went up two shots with straight cuts made. It was
Local favorite Jordan Spi- his pitching wedge from tied for the second-longest
eth, a shot off the lead to 132 yards at 17, Na pulled active streak with Tommy
start the day, shot 70 and within one with a closing Fleetwood and Hideki Mat-
was four behind Blixt. De- birdie when his approach Jonas Blixt hits from the 18th fairway during the second round suyama, one behind Jason
of the Charles Schwab Challenge golf tournament at Colonial
fending champion Justin settled inside 5 feet. Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, May 24, 2019. Kokrak (22).
Rose, the highest-ranked "Well, I was trying to do it, Associated Press Other than the 16th-
player in the field at No. so ..." Blixt said about his ranked Finau, Colonial has
3, shot 67 and was 1 over, eagle, the 35-year-old downwind." Spieth made birdie putts of been unkind to the eight
one stroke above the cut Swede pausing for effect Jason Dufner got to 8 un- 50 feet on No. 10 and 46 players in field among the
line. without smiling. der with four straight bird- feet at 12, giving him three top 20 in the world rank-
Rory Sabbatini, the 2007 "Nah, so the last two times ies and a 25-foot putt to putts of more than 40 feet ings. Francesco Molinari,
Colonial champion, shot I played the hole it's been save par. But the two-time in the same tournament for ranked seventh, and Rose
66 and was alone in fourth the same kind of wind. Colonial runner-up missed the first time after making a are the only others playing
at 6 under. Jim Furyk, the We've been thinking it's a short birdie putt at No. 6, 46-footer in the first round. on the weekend. Molinari
2003 U.S. Open champi- like left-to-right wind or al- his 15th hole, and bogeyed But the three-time major joined Rose at 1 over after
on who hasn't won in four most into us, so today I just three of the last four for a winner missed three par a double bogey on his last
years, shot 66 and was played more like a little 68 that left him at 5 under. putts under 10 feet among hole.q