GOLF ROUNDUP Diaz holds three-shot lead in LPGA tourney

13-year-old Michelle Wie missed her first cut in five LPGA events this year.
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SYLVANIA -- Laura Diaz is still waiting to put all of her game together. Watch out if she does.
Diaz was 10 under after the second round of the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic Friday, leading Hee-Won Han by three strokes.
Thirteen-year-old sensation Michelle Wie missed her first cut in five LPGA Tour events this year. She started showing the wear and tear of her long summer away from Honolulu.
"By this time, I just want to go home," she said after a round of 1 over par. She still has to play in a Canadian Tour event next week in Brimley, Mich.
Diaz was pleased with her long game after a round of 4 under Friday but not too happy with her putting. It was just the opposite a day earlier when she shot a 6 under.
"Hopefully, the next two days I can get them both working," she said.
Diaz felt fortunate on a couple of holes. She managed to birdie No. 5 even after Michelle McGann's ball hit hers on the fairway, and she chipped in on No. 3 to save par.
"It was a really nice surprise and put a nice smile on my face," she said about the third hole.
Tour's hottest player
Han, the hottest golfer on the tour in the last month, said she's been feeling less pressure since winning the Big Apple Classic last month for her first tour victory.
"I've got my confidence and it makes me play well," she said.
Han also won last week at the Wendy's Championship in Ohio. She birdied two of the first three holes Friday and finished the round at 4 under.
Wie's round came apart on No. 17, a par 5 that's one of the longest holes at Highland Meadows Golf Club.
She drove her tee shot into the rough on the left side of the fairway and pushed her second shot way right and across a cart path, sending spectators scrambling.
That shot left her directly in the path of four trees.
"What should we do?" she asked B.J. Wie, her father and caddie.
She flicked the ball back onto the fairway and tossed her club aside in frustration. She ended up with a bogey that took away any chance of making the cut.
She missed it by two strokes.
"I gave it away," she said afterward. "Some days it goes in, some days it doesn't."
Play was delayed in the afternoon for nearly 2 1/2 hours by a thunderstorm, but by that time most of the leaders were in the clubhouse.
Champions Tour
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. -- Bruce Fleisher made four straight birdies on the front nine and eight overall as he shot a bogey-free, tournament-record 62 on Friday for the first-round lead in the PGA Champions Tour's Long Island Classic.
Fleisher, who won the event in 1999 and 2000, holds a two-shot lead over Bob Gilder, who was also was bogey-free with a 64.
Vicente Fernandez followed with a 65, while Rodger Davis, Seiji Ebihara, John Bland, Des Smyth and Gary Koch each shot 66.
The tournament had been held at the nearby Meadow Brook Club in Jericho, N.Y., for the past 15 years before switching to the par-70, 6,797-yard Eisenhower Park Red Course, a public facility.
"I didn't know what to expect," said Fleisher, eighth in earnings with $924,777 in 20 events. "This is the first time I played here, but today was my day. I was flying right out of the box with that par 4 on the opening hole. Then I made four straight birdies and I said to myself, 'How did I do that?"'
Fleisher, in his fifth year on the Champions Tour, has 16 victories. On the regular PGA Tour, he only had one win in 408 events from 1969-98.