GOLF ROUNDUP : Four Tie for Lead, Many Are Close at Potomac, Md.

David Toms, Jay Don Blake, Brad Fabel and Bob Gilder were tied for the lead in the Kemper Open at Potomac, Md., Friday after two rounds. But there were 21 players within five shots of their eight-under-par 134 total.

“Some of the guys on top haven’t won, haven’t come close or haven’t won in awhile, but that doesn’t matter,” Mark Calcavecchia said. “One of those guys could go nuts.”

Greg Kraft was alone in fifth at 135, and Calcavecchia and Duffy Waldorf were at 136. John Daly was one of four players at 137, and Payne Stewart was among a group of eight at 138. Greg Norman and five others were at 139.

“It’s wide open. Anybody has a chance to win this tournament,” Calcavecchia said. “You can make up a lot of ground on this course.”

Some first-round contenders faded from sight on the TPC at the 7,005-yard Avenel course.

Defending champion Billy Andrade, two shots behind as the round began, shot a 76 for a 142 total. The cut was 143.

Calcavecchia’s round included six birdies and four bogeys. He was tied for the lead with three holes to play but bogeyed Nos. 16 and 17.

Daly also had a 69 but would have done better if didn’t four-putt on No. 6, miss a four-foot birdie putt on No. 15 or leave his par putt on No. 18 six inches short.

Daly’s wife, who was due to have a baby Friday, followed him all 18 holes. He said he would finish the tournament, regardless of when she goes into labor.

Washington Redskin quarterback Mark Rypien had two triple-bogeys, a double-bogey and another triple-bogey on Nos. 7 through 10 en route to a 91 and a 171 total.

Don Bies shot a six-under-par 64 for the first-round lead in the $400,000 Commemorative senior tournament at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Bies played a bogey-free round over the 6,545-yard course. In registering six birdies, Bies, 54, converted putts ranging from three to 15 feet.

Simon Hobday of South Africa was tied for second with Gay Brewer and Ben Smith at 65.

Deb Richard, in obvious pain from a sore back, shot an eight-under-par 64 for a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Olds Classic at East Lansing, Mich.

A shot behind at 137 were Judy Dickinson, Nancy Lopez and Dottie Mochrie. Lopez shot 65, Mochrie 70 and Dickinson 71.

Richard, winner of three tournaments in six years on tour, had eight birdies without a bogey.

Defending champion Annika Sorenstam of Arizona shot even-par 72 and maintained her three-shot lead after 54 holes of the NCAA women’s golf tournament at Tempe, Ariz.

Sorenstam, the only player in the field of 102 to match or beat par each round, had a three-day total of four-under 212 over the 6,101-yard Karsten Golf Course at Arizona State.

Georgia freshman Vicki Goetze, who had a third-round 72, was second, one shot better than Audrey Wooding of Stanford, who had a 73.

As a team, San Jose State shot 881, with Arizona at 883.

Stanford remained in the chase at 887, followed by Arizona State, 892, and Oklahoma State and Georgia, 894.

UCLA took the team title last year, winning a playoff from the Spartans when all five San Jose State players made par and LaRee Sugg of UCLA sank a 25-foot birdie putt while her teammates parred out on the extra hole.

The Spartans returned most of their team and were the only squad to defeat Arizona this year.