Davis, Molder have Colonial lead; 2 share Senior PGA edge

Associated Press

FORT WORTH, TEXAS

Brian Davis and Bryce Molder are hoping for a little plaid to signify finally winning on the PGA Tour.

Davis had his second consecutive bogey-free 65 on Saturday while Molder, the second-round leader, shot 67 to put them both at 16-under 194 going into the final round at the Colonial, where the champion gets a plaid jacket along with a check of more than $1 million.

The closest Davis has come to winning was last month at Hilton Head, when he got into a playoff with Jim Furyk and then called a two-stroke penalty on himself on the extra hole. The 35-year-old Englishman had missed the cut his last three tournaments.

Molder has four top-10s this season, but the four-time All-American from Georgia Tech has only one professional victory since leaving college in 2001 — on the Nationwide Tour in 2006.

It was another hot but ideal scoring day at Hogan’s Alley, where there again were only light breezes. The forecast Sunday calls for nearly identical conditions.

Senior PGA

PARKER, COLO.

Jay Don Blake considers himself a stealth golfer, lurking around the leaderboard while everybody else has their eyes fixed on the game’s bigger names.

He’ll be hard to miss today when he tees off in the last group with co-leader Tom Lehman at the 71st Senior PGA Championship.

Blake, of St. George, Utah, shot a 2-under-par 70 Saturday at the Colorado Golf Club to take a share of the 54-hole lead at the senior circuit’s oldest and most prestigious event.

Lehman fired a 71 through swirling winds that add to the adversity facing golfers at the 3-year-old course co-designed by Ben Crenshaw, a 7,450-foot monster that cuts through open meadows, wooded hillsides and streams and plays to a par-72.

Fred Couples, who led going into the weekend, faltered with a score of 75 but is still just two shots off the pace, along with Mark O’Meara (67) and Mike Goodes (70).

Seven others are within four strokes of the leaders.