Rookie Torres among 4 tied at Evian major

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Tour rookie Maria Torres shared the four-way lead Friday after two rounds in her second major tournament. Top-ranked two-time major winner Sung Hyun Park has the weekend off.

Torres, the first Puerto Rican to earn an LPGA Tour card, shot a 2-under 69 before Amy Olson (65), Mo Martin (66) and Mi Hyang Lee (66) matched her 8-under 134 total.

“It’s something new and it’s exciting [to lead],” said the 23-year-old Torres, who is ranked No. 184. She missed the cut at 10-over in her only previous major, the Women’s PGA Championship won in July by the South Korean world No. 1 Park.

Park (71) started and finished play Friday at 6-over at the sun-soaked Evian Resort Golf Club and missed the cut by three shots.

Olson had seven birdies and secured a share of the lead with an 18-foot par-saving putt on the 18th.

“That was huge,” said the 26-year-old North Dakota native, whose career-best finish in a major is tied for ninth at the ANA Inspiration this season. “Seeing it drop, that’s a lot of confidence going into tomorrow.”

GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Brandt Jobe capped a fast start with an eagle in tour golf’s return to Warwick Hills and shot a 7-under 65 to take the first-round lead in The Ally Challenge. Jobe played his first seven holes in 6-under, making the eagle on the par-5 16th. A six-time winner on the Japanese tour, he won last year in Iowa for his lone PGA Tour Champions title. Vijay Singh, a threetime winner at Warwick Hills in the PGA Tour’s defunct Buick Open, was a stroke back with Jeff Maggert and Esteban Toledo. Tiger Woods won the last Buick Open in 2009.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ashun Wu of China birdied his first two holes Friday to set up a 5-under 66 and take a three-shot lead into the weekend at the KLM Open. Wu’s round followed a bogey-free 64 on Thursday and put him ahead of Englishman Jonathan Thomson, who had 10 birdies and three bogeys on his way to a 36-hole total of 133 at The Dutch in Spijk.