Woods’ 65 has him close at TPC Potomac
POTOMAC, Md. —
Tiger Woods goes into the weekend at the Quicken Loans National without having to make up too much ground on the lead.
Woods chipped in from 80 feet for birdie after his only bad miss off the tee, made four of his six birdie putts from 18 feet or longer and matched his lowest score of the year with a 5-under 65 on a steamy Friday morning at the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. He was four shots behind the leaders.
Beau Hossler, the 23-year-old in his first full year on the tour, birdied four of his last five holes and finished with a 35-foot birdie putt on No. 18 for a 4-under 66, giving him a share of the lead with
Ryan Armour and Brian Gay.
“I’m not that far back,” Woods said. “The scores aren’t going to be that low and it’s going to be a tough weekend. It will be over 100 degrees and it will be a long weekend mentally and physically. I’m in a good position now.”
Not since the Valspar Championship during the Florida swing has Woods been this close to the 36hole leader. He was tied for second that week in March, two shots behind, and he wound up one shot behind the winner.
Trio tied for lead at Women’s PGA
Lydia Ko surged into contention at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, shooting a 6under 66 in the second round to move two strokes off the lead at Kildeer, Ill. First-round leader
Sung Hyun Park (72), 2016 winner Brooke Henderson (71) and So Yeon Ryu (69) were tied for the lead at 6-under 138 heading into the third round.
Kelly in front at U.S. Senior Open
Jerry Kelly’s chip-in for birdie on No. 18 highlighted a round that left him atop the leaderboard after his second round at the U.S. Senior Open at Colorado Springs, Colo.
After coming up short from the middle of the fairway, Kelly took advantage of a decent lie outside a bunker, chipped the ball and watched it go straight in. He made three more birdies on the front nine to complete a round of 1-under 69 for a oneshot lead at 5-under 135. Miguel Angel Jimenez
shot 68 to stay a shot back.
Kinhult leading French Open
Marcus Kinhult of Sweden carded a 6-under 65 to seize a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the French Open at Paris.
Kinhult produced an eagle and six birdies to finish with a 6-under total of 136, two clear of England’s Chris Wood (68).
BASEBALL Skeeters top Barnstormers
Collin Walsh’s tworun single and a pair of bases-loaded walks keyed Sugar Land’s five-run eighth inning in a 9-4 victory over Lancaster before a crowd of 6,988 at Constellation Field.
FOOTBALL Bradham, Turbin draw suspensions
Eagles linebacker Nigel Bradham has been suspended for the 2018 season opener against the Falcons for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy. The suspension is related to Bradham’s July 2016 arrest for assaulting a hotel employee in Miami. Colts running back
Robert Turbin has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the season for violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancers.
HOCKEY Capitals promote Reirden to top job
The Washington Capitals have promoted Todd
Reirden to head coach to replace Barry Trotz ,a decision that allows the Stanley Cup champions to maintain some level of continuity.
Reirden had been on Trotz’s staff the past four years, including the past two as associate coach.
In other news, the Capitals re-signed defenseman Michal Kempny for $10 million over four years and Drew Doughty agreed to an eight-year, $88 million extension to stay with the Kings.
MOTORSPORTS Moffitt triumphs in truck series
Brett Moffitt won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Chicagoland Speedway after leader John Hunter Nemechek ran out of gas on the final lap. Nemechek ended up seventh after leading 64 laps overall and for most of the final stage. Ben Rhodes was second and Johnny Sauter was third.
TENNIS Wozniacki in Eastbourne final Antalya’s top seeds advance
Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki reached her third Eastbourne International final after beating fellow former No. 1 Angelique Kerber at Eastbourne, England. Wozniacki next faces unseeded Aryna Sabalenka after the Belarusian defeated Agnieszka Radwanska. Lukas Lacko
and Mischa Zverev meet in the men’s final. No. 1-seed Adrian Mannarino and No. 2
Damir Dzumhur will meet in the final at the Antalya Open in Antalya, Turkey.
Mannarino downed No. 4 Gael Monfils. Dzumhur, beat Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic in the first semifinal.