GOLF ROUNDUP : Love’s 63 Includes a Bogey as Well as a Double Bogey

Davis Love III shot an eight-under-par 63, matching the course and tournament record, for a two-stroke lead over Scott Hoch after two rounds of the Kemper Open at Potomac, Md.

Love’s 36-hole total of 11-under 131 breaks the tournament record set by Chris Perry in 1987 by one shot.

“I played about as good as I can play, except for maybe two or three swings,” he said. “It was a wild day.”

Love had a double bogey and a bogey, but he more than offset that with an eagle and nine birdies on the 7,005-yard TPC at Avenel course. His 63 tied the Kemper mark set by Ted Schulz in 1991 and matched by David Toms in 1992.

Love’s best round on the PGA Tour was a 60 at last year’s Hawaiian Open, and he won the 1992 Greensboro Open with a 62 on the final day.

It’s doubtful that either of those rounds were as zany as the one he played Friday. Love parred only six holes and had consecutive pars only once.

Starting on the back nine, Love birdied No. 10 and followed that with a double bogey on the par-three 11th after he hit an eight-iron into a creek. He parred 12, then shaved five strokes off par with a birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie run. His eagle on the 467-yard 15th came when he holed out with a pitching wedge from 155 yards.

Hoch shot a bogey-free 65.

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Harold Henning turned in his best round this year with seven birdies and no bogeys in a 65 that gave him a one-stroke lead after the first round of the $1.1 million BellSouth Senior Classic at Nashville, Tenn.

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Julie Larsen and Tina Tombs each birdied three of the last four holes for six-under-par 66s that left them tied with Cindy Rarick for the first-round lead in the LPGA’s First Bank-Edina Realty Classic at Brooklyn Park, Minn.

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Bernhard Langer, not troubled by chilly, gusty winds, shot a six-under-par 66 and opened a four-stroke lead in the $1 million European Tournament Players Championship in Hamburg, Germany. John Daly wasn’t as lucky against the strong wind, shooting a 77 and missing the cut in the tournament he was using to prepare for next week’s U.S. Open.