Wind with Creamer, but not Ochoa
Paula Creamer and Lorena Ochoa played together for the first 36 holes at the SemGroup Championship in Broken Arrow, Okla., battling vicious winds that came from two directions and getting two very different results.
Creamer has made enough birdies that another sloppy finish yesterday - two bogeys on the final three holes - still left her satisfied. She shot an even-par 71 and was the only player under par at Cedar Ridge, giving her a one-shot lead over Ji Young Oh.
Ochoa was six shots behind after a 3-over 74, the first time since the 2006 Women's British Open that she has had two rounds over par in the same tournament. Even more troublesome was that Ochoa, going for her record-tying fifth consecutive LPGA Tour victory, finished the second round without a birdie.
Vicky Hurst, the 17-year-old who will graduate high school in two weeks, had a 75 and was in a group at 146.
PGA - As Phil Mickelson's round imploded with a series of wayward shots, the
Jason Bohn fired a 5-under 67 to take a two-shot lead at 9 under after the second round at Charlotte, N.C., while Mickelson's double bogey on the easiest hole began a horrible closing stretch that left him seven shots back.
Anthony Kim's 67 put him at 7 under and alone in second place, while 2006 champion Jim Furyk, Dudley Hart, and George McNeill were three strokes back after 67s.
Champions - Nick Price shot a season-best 7-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Mark O'Meara after the first round of the
European - Ignacio Garrido shot a course record 9-under 63 to take a four-stroke lead at the Spanish Open in Seville.
John Daly, who shot 75 in the first round, broke par with a 70 - but still missed the cut by two strokes.
Michelle Wie was among 1,236 players who have entered the US Women's Open, the first time she will go through open qualifying for a major since she was in the eighth grade.
The Women's Open will be held June 26-29 at Interlachen outside Minneapolis.
Wie, a freshman at Stanford, is exempt from the first stage of local qualifying because she played in the US Women's Open last year, although she withdrew during the second round.
