Rookie Torres shares lead with 3 at Evian
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France – Tour rookie Maria Torres shared the four-way lead Friday after two rounds in her second major tournament. Topranked, 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 (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.
St. Agnes junior Rachel Heck made the cut with her two-day total of 70-73—143 (1-over). Heck is committed to play at Stanford.
PGA Tour Champions
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 firstround 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 three-time 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.
European Tour
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Ashun Wu of China birdied his first two holes 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 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.