Golf Thursday’s results

OLYMPICS

RIO DE JANEIRO

Stacy Lewis made 11 birdies on Thursday to match the low score at Olympic Golf Course with an 8-under 63, putting her right in the mix for a gold medal.

The American had no complaints about her golf or her position at the halfway point of the first Olympic women’s golf competition since 1900. Lewis was one shot behind Inbee Park, the South Korean player who birdied her last two holes for another 5-under 66.

Charley Hull kept alive British hopes for a gold medal sweep in golf with a 66 that left the Englishwoman tied with Canada’s Brooke Henderson, two shots behind Park.

WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP

GREENSBORO, N.C.

Rested after the Rio Olympics, Rafa Cabrera Bello shot a 7-under 63 on in the Wyndham Championship for a share of the first-round lead with Kevin Na.

Cabrera Bello eagled the par-5 fifth and closed the bogey-free round with a birdie on Sedgefield’s par-4 ninth. On Sunday, the 32-year-old Spaniard tied for fifth in Rio.

U.S. AMATEUR

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.

Michigan sophomore Nick Carlson won two matches on the 19th hole at Oakland Hills to advance to the U.S. Amateur quarterfinals.

Carlson, from Hamilton, Michigan, beat British Amateur champion Scott Gregory of England in the morning round of 32, and topped Thailand’s KK Limbhasut in the afternoon round of 16.

Carlson will face Illinois junior Dylan Meyer of Evansville, Indiana, on the Donald Ross-designed South Course that Ben Hogan dubbed the “The Monster” in his 1951 U.S. Open victory.

CZECH MASTERS

VYSOKY UJEZD, CZECH REPUBLIC

England’s Ryan Evans birdied the final hole for a 6-under 66 and the first-round lead in the Czech Masters.

Associated Press