On the links | Thursday’s professional golf results

LPGA TOUR

PRATTVILLE, ALA.

Top-ranked Stacy Lewis birdied the last three holes and five of the final six for an 8-under 64 and a share of the lead with Mi Jung Hur in the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic. Lewis, the 2012 winner in the event dropped from the schedule last year after losing its title sponsor, had a bogey-free round on The Senator course. She has a tour-high three victories this season. Hur also had a bogey-free round. The South Korean player won her lone LPGA Tour title in 2009. South Africa’s Paula Reto had a 65, and Cydney Clanton was another stroke back along with Sweden’s Karin Sjodin and Japan’s Ayako Uehara. Former University of Alabama star Stephanie Meadow shot 68. Lexi Thompson, the 2011 winner at age 16, opened with a 70.

WEB.COM TOUR

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLA.

Zac Blair matched the course record with a 7-under 63 to take the lead in the Web.com Tour Championship, the final event in the four-tournament Web.com Tour Finals. Blair, the 24-year-old former BYU player who needs to earn about $40,000 this week to earn a PGA Tour card, had a bogey-free round on TPC Sawgrass’ Dye’s Valley Course. Blair missed the cuts in the first three events in the series limited to the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list and Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings. The top 25 on the Web.com money list have earned PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for PGA Tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals. The other players are fighting for another 25 cards based on their earnings in the series. Scott Pinckney, Derek Fathauer, Sung Joon Park, Bronson La’Cassie and Chad Collins were tied for second at 65.

WALES OPEN

NEWPORT, WALES

Dutchman Joost Luiten birdied seven of his last 10 holes for a 6-under 65 and a one-stroke lead in the Wales Open, the final event before the Ryder Cup next week at Gleneagles. Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts had a 66 on Celtic Manor’s Twenty-Ten Course. He eagled the 575-yard 18th hole after hitting a drive 447 yards. European Ryder Cup player Lee Westwood, Jamie Donaldson, Thomas Bjorn and Stephen Gallacher are in the field. Donaldson shot 70, Bjorn 71, Westwood 73, and Gallacher 78.

Associated Press