Peterson leads at Quail Hollow
Tiger Woods figured his evenpar 71 in his return to Quail Hollow would keep him and everyone else fairly close to the lead at the Wells Fargo Championship.
That was before John Peterson came to life late Thursday afternoon. Peterson holed a bunker shot for eagle, holed a wedge from the fairway for eagle on the next hole, and wound up with a 65.
Peterson had a two-shot lead over five players, from Quail Hollow member Johnson Wagner to PGA Tour rookie Keith Mitchell.
Two-time winner Rory McIlroy was in the group at 68.
The first round of the LPGA North Texas Classic has been called off because of heavy morning rain. Only 34 of the 144 golfers completed at least one hole. Thursday’s scores were thrown out.
Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week’s Madrid Open, saying she wasn’t ready to compete. Williams’s replacement in Madrid will be CoCo Vandeweghe.
Bill Torrey, the jovial bow-tie wearing Hall of Famer who was the general manager of the New York Islanders when they won four consecutive Stanley Cups in the 1980s and eventually became the first president of the Florida Panthers, has died. He was 83 . ... The Carolina Hurricanes have acquired left wing Jordan Martinook from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for center Marcus Kruger.
The “abhorrent” criminal conduct by now-convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar while he was a sports doctor at Michigan State did not violate NCAA rules, an attorney for the university has told the governing body of college sports.
The NCAA women’s beach volleyball championships begin Friday in Gulf Shores, Ala., with UCLA and Pepperdine as the top two seeds and USC in search of a third consecutive NCAA title. The first-day matchups: No. 1 UCLA (35-3) vs. No. 8 Florida International (22-10), No. 5 USC (25-12) vs. No. 4 Florida State (30-6), No. 2 Pepperdine (24-3) vs. No. 7 Louisiana State (26-12) and No. 3 Hawaii (35-3) vs. No. 6 South Carolina (24-7). The tournament is doubleelimination until the championship match, which is scheduled for Sunday at 10 a.m. PDT.