GOLF ROUNDUP : Crenshaw: 3 Swings on Par 4 for a 5

Ben Crenshaw was addressing the ball for his second shot on the 12th hole of the Colonial Country Club in Ft. Worth Friday as the wind gusted. The ball moved three inches.

Crenshaw called a one-stroke penalty on himself.

Flustered, he hit into a bunker, where he collected himself sufficiently to hole out a 50-foot sand shot and wrote down par four.

“I’m thinking it’s one of the great pars I ever made,” Crenshaw said.

No, but it was one of his better bogies.

Two holes later he was discussing the incident with Tournament Director Mike Shea of the PGA Tour, and Shea asked Crenshaw if he had replaced the ball in its original position after it moved.

No, Crenshaw said.

Add another stroke, Shea responded.

Crenshaw took three swings on the hole, thought he had a par four and eventually settled for bogey five. His second-round 63 turned into a 65, and a two-shot advantage over Russ Cochran became a tie at six-under-par 134 at the tournament’s halfway point.

“I’d put this among the three or four best rounds I ever played,” Crenshaw said. “And it was one of the most emotional I ever played.

“I was up because I was playing so good. Then I was down when the ball moved. Then I was up when I holed the sand shot, then down again when I found out there was another penalty.

“It’s a round I’ll remember the rest of my life--every shot,” he said.

He also will remember a rule he didn’t understand.

“I thought when the ball moved you just went ahead and played it. I didn’t know you had to replace it. I didn’t know the rule,” he said, then ruefully added: “But I do now.”

Former U.S. Amateur champion Billy Mayfair came on with a 68 and was one stroke back of the co-leaders at 135.

Lee Trevino shot a seven-under-par 65 to lead the field in the Doug Sanders Kingwood Celebrity senior tournament at Houston.

Trevino parred the 397-yard, par-four 13th hole, perhaps the course’s toughest with water, a dogleg left and a stand of pine trees in the middle of the fairway.

“That 13 is a monster, and there were some monster scores on it today,” Trevino said after his par. “. . . I’ll take it on that hole.”

Jim Ferree is two strokes back in second, and George Lanning had a 69 for third.

Deb Richard, a self-proclaimed wind player, fought 20-m.p.h. gusts to gain the second-round lead in the LPGA’s Pat Bradley International at High Point, N.C.

After teeing off in the afternoon, Richard struggled through windy conditions for the second day in a row on the front side of the par-72, 6,250-yard Willow Creek Golf Club course. But she put her game together on the final six holes of the back side, recording four birdies.

She was on top with 15 points in the modified Stableford scoring system. Richard’s 10 points during Thursday’s first round was good for second place.

Barb Mucha, never better than fifth on the women’s tour, was three shots back.

In the scoring, birdies are worth two points, eagles five and double-eagles eight. Pars are worth no points. One point is deducted for a bogey and three for a double-bogey or higher.

Jan Stephenson made the cut with a total of minus-one. She is playing in her first tournament since her finger was severely injured when she was mugged four months ago.

Stephenson said her swollen finger, which she still is unable to extend fully, wasn’t as much a problem as the stiff neck during the first two days of play.

“I just hit too many practice balls the other day,” Stephenson said. “I hit six buckets and I am only supposed to hit one.”