Friday On the links

Friday On the links

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OHL CLASSIC

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO

Michael Putnam birdied five of the first eight holes and finished with a 7-under 64 on Friday to take the lead in the PGA Tour’s OHL Classic. Putnam had a 12-under 130 total, playing the first 36 holes without a bogey on Mayakoba’s El Camaleon course. He won the Web.com Tour’s 2013 Mexico Championship. Shawn Stefani and Jason Bohn were a stroke back. They each shot 65. Ken Duke was 10 under after a 63, the best round of the day. David Hearn, Nicholas Thompson, Will MacKenzie and Alex Cejka were 9 under. Hearn and Thompson shot 65, Cejka had a 67, and MacKenzie a 68. Fred Funk, the oldest player in the field at 58, was 8 under after a 65. He won the 2007 event at 50 years, 8 months, 12 days to become the fifth-oldest PGA Tour winner.

LORENA OCHOA INVITATIONAL

MEXICO CITY

Christina Kim shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to maintain a one-stroke lead in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. Kim birdied the par-3 16th to take the outright lead and parred the final two holes at tree-lined Club de Golf Mexico. She had a 10-under 134 total. The 30-year-old American won the last of her two LPGA Tour titles in 2005. Paula Creamer was second after a 65, the best round of the day. Suzann Pettersen, Lydia Ko, Azahara Munoz and Pornanong Phatlum were tied for third at 7 under. Pettersen shot 66, Phatlum 68, Ko 69, and Munoz 71. Top-ranked Inbee Park was 10th at 4 under after a 70. Michelle Wie had a 69 to reach 2 under. She won the 2009 event in Guadalajara for her first LPGA Tour victory.

SENIOR PGA PROFESSIONAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA.

Jeff Coston shot a 6-under 66 on Friday for a share of the lead with Frank Esposito Jr. in the Senior PGA Professional National Championship. The 59-year-old Coston, a PGA teaching professional at Semiahmoo in Blaine, Washington, had eight birdies and two bogeys on PGA Golf Club’s Wanamaker Course to match Esposito at 10-under 134. Coston won the 2006 tournament. The 51-year-old Esposito, the PGA head professional at Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park, New Jersey, bogeyed the final two holes on the Wanamaker Course for a 70. Coston and Esposito matched the 36-hole record set by Reed Hughes in 2006. The low 35 Sunday will earn spots in the Senior PGA Championship in Mat at French Lick (Indiana) Resort. The final two rounds will be played on the Wanamaker Course.

TURKISH AIRLINES OPEN

BELEK, TURKEY

Ian Poulter picked up five shots through 14 holes of the second round to move into the lead of the Turkish Airlines Open before play was halted Friday because of the weather. The Englishman holed a 40-foot putt for birdie on the 11th hole to take the lead in the third of the European Tour’s Final Four Series. Poulter is at 13 under, three ahead of Brendon De Jonge. Play at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course was stopped just after noon and was abandoned for the day at 2:30 p.m. with the continuing threat of thunderstorms. On the course, defending champion Victor Dubuisson had to have medical treatment for a nose bleed believed to have been brought on by allergies. Dubuisson shot a 77 in the first round and had six birdies and three bogeys on Friday to move to 2 over after 13 holes. Miguel Angel Jimenez, the leader after the first round, dropped two shots through 14 holes to fall back into a share for fifth at 8 under.

Associated Press