Palmer takes 2-shot lead with 62 at Torrey Pines

SAN DIEGO – Ryan Palmer had a round as magnificent as the weather at Torrey Pines, making 11 birdies for a 10under 62 on the North Course to build a two-shot lead over Brandt Snedeker in the Farmers Insurance Open.

For so many others, it wasn’t all that pretty.

Tiger Woods began his day with four putts from 25 feet and wound up with a 71 to be six shots back going into the weekend. Phil Mickelson missed the cut for the second straight week and headed for the practice range. Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, defending champion Justin Rose and U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland also missed the cut.

Palmer had no such problems. He was sprinting toward a course record on the North until missing the fairway on the tough par-4 closing hole and making his only bogey of the round.

No matter. He was at 10-under 134, two shots clear of Snedeker, who shot 67 on the South. Snedeker loves the poa annua greens, having won at Torrey in 2016 and

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BOCA RATON, Fla. – Madelene Sagstrom birdied seven of the first nine holes and shot a 10-under 62 to take the second-round lead in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio.

Sagstrom birdied the first two holes, parred the next two and made five straight birdies to make the turn in 7-under 29.

The 27-year-old Swede added birdies on Nos. 11, 12 and 16, bogeyed the par-3 17th and closed with a birdie on the par-4 18th.

Sagstrom had a 10-under 134 total for a one-stroke lead over European Solheim Cup teammate Carlota Ciganda of Spain. Ciganda had a 66 in the first official event in Boca Raton since the 1989 Oldsmobile LPGA Classic.

Cydney Clanton, Nasa Hataoka and Jennifer Song each shot 64 to get to 8 under.