Scheffler tied for the top spot

After missing the cut in the PGA, No. 1-ranked player shoots 66 to start

Scottie Scheffler did something last weekend that he rarely does, watching a golf tournament at home after missing a cut. The world’s No. 1 player is back on the course, and tied atop a crowded leaderboard at Colonial.

Scheffler was among eight players who shot 4-under 66 on Thursday in the Charles Schwab Classic. But he was the only one in that group without a bogey, rebounding from his missed cut at the PGA Championship.

Cam Davis, Beau Hossler, Chris Kirk, Patrick Reed, Webb Simpson, Nick Taylor and Harold Varner III also shot 66s. Seven others were a shot back.

“The course is playing harder than it does in a typical year here. Yeah, I felt like I did a really good job of managing myself around the golf course,” Scheffler said. “Anytime you make no bogeys, it’s going to be a good round.”

LPGA: Brittany Altomare rallied to beat top-seeded Minjee Lee 2 and 1 in hot conditions at Shadow Creek in the second round of group play in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-play. Three down after five holes and again after seven in triple-digit heat, Altomare cut her deficit to one at the turn with a birdie on No. 8 and an eagle on the par-5 ninth. The American pulled even with a par on the par-4 12th and took a 2-up lead with birdies on 13 and 14. She halved the next three with pars to end the match. The winners of the 16 fourplayer groups will advance to single elimination at the conclusion of roundrobin play Friday.

Champions: On a day when birdies were flying around Harbor Shores in the first round of the Senior PGA Championship, Steven Alker began soaring with an eagle. The 50-year-old New Zealander, who already has won twice and leads the PGA Tour Champions money list with almost $1.2 million,

shot a 7-under 64, which was tied late in the day by 56-year-old Bob Estes.

Joost Luiten had eight birdies and one bogey in a firstround

7-under 65 for a one-shot lead over England’s Eddie Pepperell and Denmark’s Rasmus Hojgaard in the Dutch Open.

Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press Scottie Scheffler hits off the sixth tee during the first round of the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club. He didn’t have a bogey.