Matsuyama has a record round

Hideki Matsuyama has not missed the Tour Championship since his first full year on the PGA Tour. He played Friday like he doesn’t want the streak to end.

Outside the top 30 in the FedEx Cup for the first time at the BMW Championship, Matsuyama made five birdie putts from 15 feet or longer and broke the course record at Medinah with a nineunder 63 for a one-shot lead.

Matsuyama was at 12under 132, one shot ahead of Patrick Cantlay (67) and Tony Finau (66). Tiger Woods made only two putts longer than six feet, made a pair of bogeys from the bunkers late in the round and had to settle for another 71. Woods, who needs a top 10 to advance to the Tour Championship, was tied for 49th.

Miguel Angel Jimenez birdied three of the final six holes for a seven-under 65 and a share of the firstround lead with Monday qualifier Doug Barron in the PGA Tour Champions’ Dick’s Sporting Goods Open . ... Edoardo Molinari shot his second straight sixunder 66 for a two-shot lead after two rounds of the Czech Masters.

Top seed Ashleigh Barty reached the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open for the first time and moved closer to regaining the No. 1 world ranking by beating Maria Sakkari 5-7, 6-2, 6-0. With one more win, she can move into the top spot for the U.S. Open, taking it back from Naomi Osaka, who dropped out of her semifinal with Sofia Kenin because of a knee injury.

Denny Hamlin won the pole for Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, a critical short-track showdown for drivers trying to qualify for the playoffs . ... Tyler Reddick drove from last to first and won the Xfinity Series race after leader Justin Allgaier hit the wall late.

Defending champion Alix Klineman and twotime champion Sean Rosenthal advanced to Saturday’s elimination rounds at the Manhattan Beach Open.

Jose Napoles, the Hall of Fame Mexican boxer who was a two-time welterweight world champion, died at 79. ... Mike McGee, athletic director at USC from 1984 to 1993, died. He was 80. B5