GOLF ROUNDUP Mallon LPGA leader; Lietzke ahead in Iowa

The U.S. Amateur became a kids' game again.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KUTZTOWN, Pa. -- Meg Mallon shot a 6-under 66 Friday and took a three-stroke lead over Kim Saiki and Janice Moodie on Friday after two rounds of the Wachovia LPGA Classic.
Mallon was at 10-under 134 after two trips around the Berkleigh Country Club course. Saiki had five straight birdies in a 65, the best round of the tournament, on Friday, while Moodie had a 68.
Mallon had five birdies on the front nine, including a 24-foot putt on No. 1, a 20-footer on 4, a 3-footer on 5 and a chip-in birdie from the rough neat a greenside bunker on 7 that dropped her to 8 under.
She finished the front nine in style with a 20-foot birdie putt, then birdied two holes on the back nine, including an up-and-down from the bunker on the par-5 18th, to offset a bogey on 12.
Beth Daniel (69) and Candie Kung (67) were four strokes back at 138, while Dawn Coe-Jones (71) and Heather Bowie (68) were another stroke back. First-round leader Emilee Klein followed an opening 66 with a 74. Defending champion Se Ri Pak had a 71 and was at 141.
Play was completed after a downpour forced a 56-minute delay. Thirty-six players were on the course when play was stopped at 5:21 p.m.
Champions Tour
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa --Bruce Lietzke and Glen Oaks seem made for one another.
Lietzke, the only double winner on the Champions Tour this year, shot a 6-under 65 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead in the Allianz Championship.
It was Lietzke's best score yet in the 3-year-old tournament and the seventh time in as many rounds he has shot in the 60s on the course that winds through a residential area west of Iowa's capital city.
Don Pooley and David Eger were tied for second at 66. Eger was 7 under through 17 holes, but his chance for the lead disappeared with a double bogey on 18.
Defending champion Bob Gilder and 2001 winner Jim Thorpe, coming off a victory in the Long Island Classic, were in a group at 4 under with Hale Irwin and Tom Kite. Craig Stadler, Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller were another shot back.
U.S. Amateur
OAKMONT, Pa. -- Comeback Casey proved he can play with a lead, not just from behind. There was no letdown for David Oh, or for Lee Williams. Nick Flanagan showed adolescence and naivet & eacute; can be assets even in a pressure cooker of a tournament unlike any he has ever seen.
On a day youth, freshness and skill separated themselves from experience and savvy at storied Oakmont Country Club, the U.S. Amateur became a kids' game again Friday after a surprising run by three veterans nicknamed the Geezers.
All four quarterfinal winners in the most difficult-to-win amateur are 22 or younger, including two teens, the 19-year-old Flanagan and 18-year-old Casey Wittenberg.
Only Oh, who extended his run of surprise victories by beating the favored Bill Haas 2 and 1, has played in the Amateur before, and this is only his second. Wittenberg, Williams and Flanagan are semifinalists in their U.S. Amateur debuts.
Wittenberg, from Memphis, had the look of a No. 1 on Friday, never trailing in a 1 up victory over 50-year-old George Zahringer, a longtime contender more than twice his age.
Wittenberg will try to make more of them today when he plays Williams, an Auburn junior from Alexander City, Ala., in the semifinals. Williams took out 35-year-old Pat Carter, winner of the last nine West Virginia amateurs, by 4 and 3 despite losing the first two holes.