GOLF ROUNDUP : Funk Flirts With History but Settles for a 62

Fred Funk was doing fine until he started thinking about shooting 59.

Funk had to settle for a 10-under-par 62 Wednesday, good for a two-stroke lead in the Atlanta Classic at Marietta, Ga., but three shots off Al Geiberger’s PGA Tour record.

“I did think of 59,” Funk said, referring to the score Geiberger shot in the second round of the 1977 Memphis Classic.

“Somebody shot 62,” said Ray Floyd, 48, who had a 68. “I’m in the wrong league. I can’t wait for those Seniors.”

Funk said he began thinking about the record after he rolled in a three-foot birdie putt on No. 4, his 13th hole of the round.

Funk said he was thinking: “If I can birdie four of the last five holes I could do something. I just never got it close again.”

Funk has a two-shot lead over Tom Kite, who matched Funk’s 10 birdies, but also had two bogeys.

Funk, golf coach at Maryland for eight years, birdied nine of 11 holes in one stretch while playing in a steady drizzle on the Atlanta Country Club course.

Jayne Thobois, a second-year LPGA Tour player one month shy of her 39th birthday, used a hole in one to earn a share of the lead after one round of the an LPGA tournament at Chesapeake, Va.

Thobois shot a four-under-par 68 to tie playing partner Nina Foust.