GOLF ROUNDUP : Floyd (67) Loses Ground; Lietzke Leads Norman by 2

When Raymond Floyd hit the PGA Tour as a smooth-faced youngster of 20, the veterans on the tour dubbed him “junior.”

Junior is back.

“I haven’t heard it in a long, long time,” Floyd said.

Floyd shot a five-under 67 Saturday at the Bank One Senior Classic, his first event on the senior tour since turning 50 this week. He is in a group of three at six-under 138.

But Terry Dill sits atop the leader board at 11 under after shooting a 66 Saturday, the best round of the tournament at Lexington, Ky.

Mike Hill, this year’s second-leading money winner, is alone in second, adding a 68 to his opening-round 69 for a seven-under total.

Hill, for one, is not awed by the new kid on the block.

“I don’t play Raymond,” a testy Hill said. “There’s a guy up there in front you need to worry about. The golf course is still the number one person to beat out there.”

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Bruce Lietzke went nine shots higher than the day before. His lead was cut in half. But he accomplished what he set out to do in the third round of the Canadian Open.

“I’m still in position,” Lietzke said after watching Greg Norman trim his lead to two strokes at Oakville, Ontario.

Lietzke, who moved four strokes in front of the field with a second-round 64, had to be content with a 73, one over par on the Glen Abbey layout.

Norman had 14 consecutive pars before making birdies on the 15th and 16th holes, then hit into the water on the 18th and made bogey.

“That leaves a little bit of a bad taste in your mouth,” the Australian said after a 71 that left him at 210, two behind Lietzke.

Fred Couples shot a 71 and was three off the pace at 211, tied with Greg Twiggs.

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Tina Barrett shot a three-under-par 69 to take a two-stroke lead over first-round leader Jane Crafter after the second round of the Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship at Portland, Ore.

“I played really solid,” said Barrett, who enters the final round with a nine-under 135 total on the 6,266-yard Columbia-Edgewater Country Club course.