Flores out front

Martin Flores birdied five of the last seven holes for a 5-under 66 and a three-stroke lead in the Web.com Tour Finals’ Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship at Columbus, Ohio. Already guaranteed a PGA Tour card with a fifth-place finish on the Web.com Tour’s regular-season money list, Flores, 34, rebounded from a bogey on No. 11 with birdies on the next four holes and closed with a birdie on 18. He had a 13-under 20 total on Ohio State’s Scarlet Course. Flores won the Lincoln Land Charity Championship in July for his first Web. com Tour title. Former Arkansas Razorback Tag Ridings, tied with Flores for the second-round lead, was second after a 69. Ridings, 42, was 52nd on the Web.com money list and entered the third of four series events 36th in the race for 25 PGA Tour cards with $9,493. The series features the top 75 players from the Web.com regular-season money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings and non-members with enough PGA Tour money to have placed in the top 200 in the FedEx Cup had they been eligible.