GOLF ROUNDUP : Woods Shares Lead in Junior Amateur Championship

Tiger Woods of Cypress and Justin Klein of Phoenix, Md., shot 2-under-par 70s Tuesday to share the first-round lead of the USGA Junior Amateur Championship.

Play on the 7,027-yard Bay Hill Club course in Orlando, Fla., was suspended for 2 1/2 hours by a thunderstorm, forcing the 42 teen-aged players on the course to seek shelter in nearby homes.

Woods, 15, had a bogey-free round. Klein, 17, had the lead alone until he double-bogeyed No. 18. They lead by one shot.

The top 64 players after today’s second round advance to match play, which begins Thursday.

Ben Garner of El Toro shot one-over 73 at Cog Hill Golf Club in Lemont, Ill., to take the first-round lead in his fourth consecutive junior tournament.

Garner, 14, who leads by two strokes in the 13-14 division of the Cog Hill Junior Championships, has won the past three American Junior Golf Assn. tournaments he has entered.

In the boys’ 15-18 division, Marina High graduate Dan Dalton shot par 72 and is one stroke behind the co-leaders. Joe Garner, older brother of Ben, is among six players at 74.