GOLF Sorenstam's 10-under 62 sets course mark

Annika Sorenstam and Rosie Jones share three-stroke leads.
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AURORA, Ill. -- Annika Sorenstam sure can give an encore.
A week after making history at the Colonial, Sorenstam shot a 10-under 62 Friday to take a share of the lead in the first round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic. The 62 set a course record, and also matched the lowest score in relation to par this year on the LPGA Tour.
As if that's not impressive enough, she had a shot at that magic number 59 until a bogey on No. 16.
"A little bit," Sorenstam said when asked if she was surprised to play this well with everything that happened the past 10 days.
"I know it's a new week and I've had several days to kind of come back to earth. I've been flying around a little bit," she said. "But now I feel like I'm back where I want to be."
Yeah, at the top of the leader-board, where she and Rosie Jones shared a three-stroke lead.
"The last hole was No. 9 ... and I had probably about 40 feet to beat Annika. That's all I could think about," said Jones, whose 62 was a career-best. "And I rolled it by about 5 feet, 6 feet."
Sorenstam ran away with the inaugural Kellogg-Keebler Classic last year, finishing at 21-under and winning by 11 strokes, and she's put herself in position to do it again.
Her 62 was one shot better than her first-round score last year. And despite an on-and-off rain that softened up the greens, her only real challenger was Jones.
If she keeps this up, the rest of the LPGA Tour might wish she'd stayed on the men's tour.
"I'm from Fort Worth and I've played Colonial, and I know she played extremely well to shoot what she did last week," said Angela Stanford, who is tied for third at 7-under with Lorie Kane.
Champions' Tour
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jim Ahern birdied the 18th hole to cap an 8-under 64 Friday and take the lead in the first round of the Champions' Tour Music City Championship.
Doug Tewell was alone in the lead early in the afternoon with a 65, but Ahern made a late charge as part of the third-to-last threesome and tied Tewell at 7-under on No. 15.
On his last chance to overtake Tewell, Ahern landed his 141-yard approach shot about 30 feet above the pin and putted the ball slightly downhill for the birdie, one of only five on the 431-yard, par-4 all day.
He then pumped his fist -- a la Tiger Woods -- toward the small crowd still gathered in the grandstand.
"I putted beautifully today," Ahern said. "If I could putt like that all the time, I'd be a happy camper."