Rookie Garnett leads PGA event
FORT WORTH, Texas – PGA Tour rookie Brice Garnett grew up in a small Missouri town where his home course is a nine-hole layout.
Garnett has gone from Daviess County Country Club and then Missouri Western State to leading at Hogan’s Alley after two rounds at Colonial.
After starting with an eagle, Garnett shot a 4-under 66 Friday and moved to 7-under 133. He had a one-stroke lead over long-putting Chris Stroud (64) and Robert Streb (68).
Watson shares lead at Senior PGA: Tom Watson shot a 3-under 68 for a share of the lead in the Senior PGA Championship with fellow Hall of Famer Bernhard Langer and Colin Montgomerie and three other players.
The 64-year-old Watson, playing alongside Langer and Montgomerie, had five birdies and a double bogey – on the par-4 12th – to reach 4-under 138 after two rounds at Harbor Shores. Trying to win for the first time since the 2011 Senior PGA, Watson is coming off a sixth-place tie last week in the Regions Tradition in Alabama.
Matthew atop LPGA Classic: Catriona Matthew remained atop the Airbus LPGA Classic leaderboard, birdieing four of the last seven holes to take a one-stroke advantage over Charley Hull into the weekend.
The 44-year-old Matthew had a 5-under 67 to reach 13-under 131 on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail’s Crossings Course. The 18-year-old Hull also shot 67.
Wheatcroft slips back: Steve Wheatcroft, a Trinity High School graduate, shot 4-over-75 and fell back to a tie for 62th in the Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh, N.C. Wheatcroft stands at 1-under par, nine shots back of leader Harold Varner III, but made the cut.
Lowry shares lead: Ireland’s Shane Lowry birdied his final two holes for a 2-under 70 and a share of lead with Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn after the second round of the BMW PGA Championship.
Bjorn followed his opened 62 with a 72 in intermittent rain to match Lowery at 10-under 134 on Wentworth’s West Course. England’s Luke Donald, the winner of the European Tour’s flagship event in 2011 and 2012, was fourth strokes back along with Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello. Donald shot 67, and Cabrera-Bello had a 67.
Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy was another stroke back along with Swedes Henrik Stenson and Jonas Blixt. They all shot 71.