Leishman up by 3 at Conway Farms

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Marc Leishman has a short memory when it comes to golf, which only helped him at the BMW Championship. He forgot all about that 62 in the opening round. He was nearly just as good Friday with a 7-under 64 to open a threeshot lead over Jason Day and Rickie Fowler going into the weekend at Conway Farms.

“I really took that as a challenge today, to not take it for granted that you're just going to make birdies,” Leishman said. “You still have to earn every birdie. I think when you do get ahead of yourself, that's when bad stuff can happen.”

There was plenty of good stuff from the guys chasing him in the third FedExCup playoff event.

Day, who has gone 16 months since his last victory, chipped in from behind the 14th green for his second eagle of the week, and then added a third eagle with one swing. He made a hole-in-one on the 17th hole with a 7-iron that turned into a payoff for multiple parties.

It carried Day to a 65, putting him in the last group on the weekend with Leishman. BMW awarded $100,000 to the Evans Scholars Foundation, and then Day decided to give the car he won to the Evans Scholars, which will yield another full four-year scholarship for another student.

Fowler also chipped in for eagle on the reachable par-4 15th hole on his way to a 64.

Leishman was at 16-under 126, two short of the 36-hole record Day set at Conway Farms two years ago on his way to a wire-towire six-shot victory.

It hasn't been easy for everyone, particularly defending champion Dustin Johnson. The world's No. 1 player can't seem to buy a putt, and even when he started to make a little progress, he finished bogey-bogey by taking two chips to get on the 17th green and hitting into the water on the 18th.

Jordan Spieth, No. 1 in the FedEx Cup after successive runner-up finishes in the playoff events, only managed a 70 and joined Mickelson in the group at 135.

VICTORIA, British Columbia — Steve Flesch and Jerry Smith each shot 7-under 64 on Friday to share the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions' Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship. Flesh is making his 12th senior start after turning 50 in May. The four-time PGA Tour winner had four birdies in a five-hole stretch on Bear Mountain's Mountain Course and capped the bogey-free round with a birdie on the par-5 18th. Smith also closed with a birdie and had six birdies in a seven-hole span before bogeying the par-3 14th. He has one senior title.

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Sung Hyun Park took full advantage of a fresh start to the Evian Championship on Friday, firing an 8-under 63 to lead the rescheduled first round by three shots. That meant a 14-shot turnaround for the No. 3-ranked Park, who had been 6-over in the rain and wind on Thursday morning. Play was abandoned and all scores wiped from the record, leaving the fifth and final women's major as a 54-hole event. The South Korean regrouped and had seven birdies and an eagle to lead by three from Australia's Katherine Kirk (66).