GOLF ROUNDUP : Jones Leads by 2 in Texas; McBee Tops Senior Event
Steve Jones shot a seven-under-par 63 and took a two-stroke lead Friday at the halfway point of the $800,000 Texas Open.
A four-time PGA Tour winner but firing mostly blanks this year, Jones used a 15-foot eagle putt on the par-five fifth hole of the short but testy Oak Hills course at San Antonio and post a 12-under-par total of 128.
Duffy Waldorf, a former UCLA star, shot a 63 after an opening 67 and was alone at 130.
Rives McBee, playing with Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino, didn’t have a bogey in a six-under-par 66, giving him the lead in the $1.5-million Vantage Championship, the richest event on the Senior PGA Tour.
A moving-ball penalty cost Al Kelley one stroke on the Tanglewood Country Club course at Clemmons, N.C., leaving him tied with Charles Coody at 67 .
Trevino was tied at 68 with Dale Douglass, Larry Mowry and 60-year-old Charles Owens.
Beth Daniel’s hole in one on the 174-yard 14th hole capped a 63 as she pulled within two shots of leader Patty Sheehan at the $1-million Centel Classic at Tallahassee, Fla.
Sheehan turned in a seven-under 65 for a two-round total of 132. Daniel, who held a one-point lead in player of the year competition going into the tournament, is at 134.
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