Golf Roundup : Sutton, Tewell Share Lead in Michigan

Hal Sutton and Doug Tewell, two players trying to end long dry spells, shared the lead in Friday’s second round of the $1-million Buick Open golf tournament at Grand Blanc, Mich.

Tewell shot a six-under-par 66, and Sutton had a 68 over the 7,014-yard course at Warwick Hills, about 50 miles north of Detroit. They were tied at nine-under-par 135.

Tewell, who turns 40 next month, has four tour victories but none since the 1987 Pensacola Open. Sutton, 31, won both the Tournament Players Championship and the PGA title in 1983 but hasn’t had a victory since 1986, when he won the Phoenix Open and the Memorial.

First-round leader Leonard Thompson, seeking his first PGA Tour victory in 12 years, was one stroke behind the leaders after a 71, tied with Australian Wayne Grady, Mark O’Meara and Joel Edwards. Grady and Edwards shot 69s, and O’Meara had a 70.

Nancy Lopez and Betsy King, the dominant players on the Ladies Professional Golf Assn. tour this year, continued their battle for supremacy in the opening round of the $225,000 Atlantic City tournament at Somers Point, N.J.

Lopez shot a three-under-par 67 to take a one-stroke lead over King, Elaine Crosby and Chris Johnson. Eight players were two shots back.

Jim Dent and Gordon Jones shot five-under-par 67s to share the first-round lead in the $275,000 Newport Cup tournament at Newport, R.I..

Al Kelley, a qualifier from Eustis, Fla., shot a 68. Jim Ferree, Jim Cochran and Dick Hendrickson were tied at 69.