Golf Roundup: Friday’s other events

Regions Charity Classic

HOOVER, Ala. — Andy Bean and Monday qualifier Mike Goodes shot 7-under 65s to share the first-round lead in the Champions Tour event. Leading money winner Bernhard Langer was two strokes back on the 7,503-yard Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge course. A two-time winner this year on the 50-and-over tour, Langer tied for 15th Sunday in The Players Championship on the PGA Tour. Without an exemption, Goodes had to qualify for the tournament on Monday in North Carolina and matched his best round since joining the Champions Tour in 2006. Two-time defending champion Brad Bryant opened with a 72.

Sybase Classic

CLIFTON, N.J. — Second-round play was wiped out in the LPGA Tour’ event after rain created conditions that would have forced players to compete on two very different courses if the round had been suspended until Saturday. Tournament officials wiped out play, rescheduled the second round to today and reduced the $2 million tournament from 72 holes to 54. Annika Sorenstam, Rachel Hetherington and Song-Hee Kim shared the lead after shooting 67s on Thursday. Lorena Ochoa was a stroke back. The washout was the tour’s first since the 2005 Michelob Ultra Open.

Irish Open

ADARE, Ireland — Michael Lorenzo-Vera shot a 2-under 70 to take a one-stroke lead after the second round. The 23-year-old Lorenzo-Vera, the PGA European Challenge Tour money leader last year, had a 6-under 138 total on the Adare Manor course. Marcel Siem (71) was second, and Richard Green (74) and Pablo Larrazabal (70) followed at 4 under. Darren Clarke (69) topped a group at 3 under. Padraig Harrington, the defending champion, was 1 under after a 71.

Associated Press