PRO GOLF roundup
Champions
Jimenez, Barron lead at Dick’s Sporting Goods Open
ENDICOTT, N.Y.
Miguel Angel Jimenez birdied three of the final six holes Friday for a 7-under 65 and a share of the first-round lead with qualifier Doug Barron in the PGA Tour Champions’ Dick’s Sporting Goods Open.
Jimenez had eight birdies and a bogey at En Joie Golf Club. The 50-year-old Barron had seven birdies in a bogey-free round.
Marco Dawson and Scott Parel were a stroke back at 66. Kevin Sutherland was another stroke back with David McKenzie and Billy Andrade.
Bernhard Langer shot a 68, playing alongside Scott McCarron and Retief Goosen. McCarron, the winner two years ago, had a 69. Goosen shot 72.
Davis Love III and Jay Haas shot 68, while playing partner Fred Couples had a 70. John Daly had a 71 and defending champion Bart Bryant opened with a 72.
Euorpean
Molinari shoots 6-under 66 for lead at Czech Masters
VYSOKY UJEZD, Czech Republic
Edoardo Molinari shot his second straight 6-under 66 and earned a two-shot lead after two rounds of the Czech Masters on Friday.
Three straight birdies on the final three holes gave 2015 Czech Masters champion Thomas Pieters of Belgium a bogey-free round of 5-under 67 and sole second at 134.
Sharing third position on 135, three shots off the lead, were Sweden’s Robert Karlsson (68), Austria’s Matthias Schwab (65), Englishman Sam Horsfield (66), and Chile’s Hugo Leon (69).
Defending champion Andrea Pavan of Italy was among seven golfers tied for seventh after posting 68.
Amateur
Cohen Trolio advances to US Amateur semifinals
PINEHURST, N.C.
Teenager Cohen Trolio advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals by beating Austin Squires 3 and 1 on Friday.
The 17-year-old rising high school junior from West Point, Mississippi, won the final three holes of the match — Nos. 15-17 at Pinehurst No. 2 — to end Squires’ run.
Trolio will face fellow Mississippian Andy Ogletree today, with John Augenstein taking on William Holcomb V in the other semifinal. The winners meet in a 36-hole final Sunday.
Ogletree, who is from Little Rock, Mississippi, beat Spencer Ralston 6 and 5 to advance to the semifinals for the first time.
Associated Press