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Ochoa Leads Annika At Canadian Open

The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 15, 2008

OTTAWA - Defending champion Lorena Ochoa shot a bogey-free 6-under 66 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over Annika Sorenstam in the Canadian Women's Open, leaving Michelle Wie nine strokes back in her final LPGA Tour event of the year.

Ochoa, the winner last year at Royal Mayfair in Edmonton, Alberta, hit all 18 greens in regulation and was in the rough only once in sunny, calm conditions on the tree-lined Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club course.

Wie, using the last of her six 2008 sponsor exemptions, bogeyed three of her last six holes for a 75. She birdied Nos. 1 and 3 to get to 2 under, but gave the strokes back with double bogey on the par-5 sixth hole. Down to No. 309 in the world, she needs to win or finish second to avoid a trip to Q-school - if she decides to try qualifying.

Se Ri Pak, Nicole Castrale, Meena Lee and Hee-Won Han opened with 68s, and Suzann Pettersen, Catriona Matthew, Song-Hee Kim, In-Kyung Kim and Eunjung Yi had 69s.

CHAMPIONS: Defending champion Mark McNulty shot a 5-under 67 for a share of the first-round lead in the JELD-WEN Tradition at Sunriver, Ore., the fourth of the Champions Tour's five major tournaments.

Craig Stadler, Gene Jones, Mark Wiebe, Tim Simpson, Jay Haas and David Eger joined McNulty at top of the leaderboard. The seven-man logjam matched the 1989 GTE North Classic for the biggest tie after 18 holes in Champions Tour history.

Taking advantage of calm and clear conditions to attack the fairways and pins, 15 players finished within a shot of the lead and 46 of the 68 players were even par or better on the Crosswater Course - the tour's longest at 7,533 yards.

PGA: Bon Heintz and rookie Martin Laird matched the course record with 7-under 63s at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., to share the lead in the Wyndham Championship, the PGA Tour's last event before the FedEx Cup playoffs.

They joined three other players who previously shot 63s at the Donald Ross-designed course - nobody had done it since Gary Player in 1970, although the pros haven't played Sedgefield since 1976 - and surpassed the venue's opening-round record by one stroke.

PGA EUROPEAN: England's Nick Dougherty holed a 142-yard wedge shot for eagle on his way to a 4-under 66 and a share of the SAS Masters lead at Stockholm, Sweden.

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