Golf Roundup : Langer Trailing by Stroke After a Second-Round 66

West German Bernhard Langer, the upset winner of last week’s Masters, shot a five-under-par 66 and climbed within one stroke of the lead Friday in the second round of the $400,000 Sea Pines Heritage golf tournament at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Langer, 27, completed two trips over the Harbour Town Golf Links in eight under par, leaving him just behind patient Paul Azinger and journeyman Bobby Wadkins, the coleaders with 133 totals.

“I’m very confident and quite happy with my whole game,” Langer said. “After winning last week, my confidence is very high. If I have a little chip, I’m thinking about making it instead of getting it close.”

Pressure, he said, is not a factor.

“I don’t feel a great deal of pressure because I have just had my greatest success ever. Now I want to go on and play well again this week.”

Azinger, who birdied four of the last six holes for a 67 that propelled him into a share of the lead, said patience was the key to his round.

“I missed a lot of opportunities early and didn’t let it bother me. I kept my head on straight and didn’t try to force anything, and before you know it, I started making some birdies,” said Azinger, 25, who hasn’t even come close to winning a tournament in his brief three-year PGA Tour career.

Wadkins, who said he was “playing about as well as I can play,” added a solid 68 to his opening 65.

“I’m tickled to death,” said Wadkins, who has yet to win in an 11-year career that has been played in the shadow of his more successful brother, Lanny.

“I really feel that, for the first time in a long time, I’ve got me and my golf game going in the right directions,” Wadkins said.

One shot back of Langer, at 135, were Hale Irwin, Dan Pohl and Jim Thorpe. Thorpe and Pohl, both of whom played the first two rounds with Wadkins, had second-round scores of 67 and 68, respectively.

“We better break up that threesome,” said Irwin, twice a winner of this event and a two-time U.S. Open titleholder. He had a 68 and has yet to make a bogey in the tournament.

Defending champion Nick Faldo of England failed to qualify for the final two rounds. He had a second-round 72 for a 152 total.

Patty Sheehan tied a course record with an eight-under-par 65 to take a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the $200,000 J&B; Scotch Pro-Amateur tournament at Las Vegas.

Her round at the Las Vegas Country Club followed her opening 67 Thursday. Sheehan, looking for her second 1985 victory, is at 132.

Alice Miller, winner of the recent Dinah Shore event, shot a six-under-par 66 at the Desert Inn, equaling that course’s record, and was in second place at 135. She will earn a $1-million bonus if she also wins this tournament.

At 138 were Nancy Lopez and Pat Bradley. Lopez shot a 72 at the Desert Inn, while Bradley had a 69 at the Las Vegas CC.

Sheehan opened with three birdies, made three pars and closed her front side with three more birdies for a 31, a back-nine record. She started her second nine by eagling the par-five first hole, sinking a 12-foot putt.

“When I hit the 4-wood within 12 feet, I thought, well, the eagle has landed,” Sheehan said.

Her two-day total shattered the previous mark of 137 set by Lopez in 1982 and equaled by Ayako Okamoto of Japan last year.

Okamoto is the defending champion but is 15 shots off Sheehan’s blistering pace.