GOLF ROUNDUP : Silveira Shoots a 71, Leads by One at Memphis

Larry Silveira overcame two shots into water hazards to shoot an even-par 71 Friday and hold a one-shot lead midway through the St. Jude Classic at Memphis, Tenn.

Silveira, who set a course record with a nine-under-par 62 for a three-shot lead Thursday, completed two rounds over the 7,006-yard TPC Southwind course at 133, one shot ahead of Buddy Gardner and Loren Roberts. Gardner shot 69 and Roberts 68.

Silveira, a former University of Arizona All-American, had four birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey on day when play was interrupted by lightning and rain. He found the water on No. 4, taking a bogey, and on No. 11, where he had the double bogey.

“I was out there grinding away,” Silveira said. “I putted well, but I didn’t hit my iron shots close enough. I had a lot of 20-30 footers.”

The second-year PGA Tour player, whose best finish is a 10th in the Deposit Guaranty Classic this year, was at even par for the day when he missed a one-foot tap-in for par on the par-3 14th. He got that stroke back when he birdied the 18th from 20 feet.

“You never know when you’re going to play good,” Silveira said. “It’s day-by-day out here, as you can see with a nine-shot difference today.”

Gardner managed to offset a bogey-4 at the 186-yard fourth hole with three birdies.

Roberts, competing after a three-week layoff, got his game together after a double bogey on the 146-yard 11th hole, which was his second hole of the day.

Even with a bogey and a double bogey in the homestretch, former British Amateur champion Kitrina Douglas held her lead after two rounds of the British Women’s Open, in Woburn, England.

Douglas shot a two-under-par 71 in the second round, played in intense heat, and reached the 36-hole mark with a 140 total.

One stroke behind her was Helen Alfredsson of Sweden.

Midway through the round, Douglas led by five-shots, but she had a bogey on the 15th and a double-bogey on the 17th.

“In these conditions you take the bad breaks with the good, so I have to be satisfied,” Douglas said.

Douglas had five birdies in the first 11 holes.

Former champion Corinne Dibnah of Australia also had trouble at the 17th, carding a nine after hitting a shot into the woods.

Muffin Spencer-Devlin, who was two shots off the lead after an opening-round 71, hit two tee shots out of bounds off the first tee and recorded a quadruple-bogey nine on the hole. She dropped five more shots in the next five holes and ended the second round with an 81.

Bob Charles shot a six-under-par 66 to claim a one-shot lead over Dewitt Weaver and Harold Henning after the opening round of the Paine Webber Invitational at Charlotte, N.C.

Charles, winner of two Senior PGA Tour events this season, had four birdies on the front nine and added a fifth with a 50-foot putt on the 436-yard 13th hole.

Arnold Palmer, designer of the Pipers Glen course, and tour money leader Lee Trevino were in a group at 70 that also included Dave Hill, the winner the last time this event was staged, in 1988.

Ronan Rafferty of Northern Ireland shot a 67 and kept his three-shot lead at the halfway mark of the PLM Open at Malmo, Sweden.

Rafferty, who tied the course record with a 64 Thursday, had a 36-hole total of 131. That is 13 under par on the 6,892-yard Bokskogen course and the fourth lowest 36-hole score on the European Tour this season.