ON THE FAIRWAYS Thursday’s golf events

Wyndham Championship

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Bon Heintz and rookie Martin Laird matched the course record with 7-under 63s at Sedgefield Country Club to share the lead in 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. Garrett Willis birdied his final five holes to join Scott Sterling, Tim Clark and Carl Pettersson one stroke back at 64. Steve Marino, Bob Sowards, Ken Duke and Scott McCarron were two strokes behind at 65.

Canadian Women’s Open

OTTAWA — Defending champion Lorena Ochoa shot a bogey-free 6-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead over Annika Sorenstam, 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.

JELD-WEN Tradition

SUNRIVER, Ore. — Defending champion Mark McNulty shot a 5-under 67 for a share of the first-round lead in 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.

SAS Masters

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Nick Dougherty holed a 142-yard wedge shot for eagle on his way to a 4-under 66 and a share of the lead. Dougherty, the runner-up last year, was tied with Sweden’s Peter Hanson and Spain’s Pedro Linhart of Spain after a wet and windy round on the Arlandastad course.

Associated Press