Brisky Attacks With a 64

Mike Brisky did what is expected when playing on some of the softest greens on the PGA Tour. He shot at the pins and posted a good score.

Brisky shot an eight-under-par 64 Thursday in the Deposit Guaranty Classic at Madison, Miss. He had eight birdies in one 11-hole stretch, and shared the first-round lead with tour rookie Craig Kanada.

Of the 153 players who teed off on the 7,157-yard Annandale Golf Club, 100 broke par and 59 shot in the 60s.

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Michele Redman went on a birdie binge on Wykagyl Country Club’s front nine--the harder half of the course for almost everyone else--and finished with a seven-under 64 to take the first-round lead at the JAL Big Apple Classic at New Rochelle, N.Y.

Redman, a non-winner in six years on the LPGA Tour, led Karrie Webb, Cindy Schreyer and Helen Alfredsson by two strokes.

She started her round on the back nine and eagled the par-five 15th with a 12-foot putt, but she didn’t play well until reaching the front nine. She birdied Nos. 2 and 3, bogeyed No. 4, then birdied Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 9. Her 30 on the front nine tied a tournament record set by Colleen Walker in 1991.

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Trip Kuehne, the runner-up to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur, moved two steps closer to a different USGA title, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Amateur Public Links Championship at Kearney Hill Golf Links in Lexington, Ky.

Kuehne, a 24-year-old stock analyst from Dallas, won two close matches but never trailed in either. He won his afternoon match over Jim Edmondson of Houston by making a birdie on the 18th hole, and he defeated Danny Green of Jackson, Tenn., in the morning round, also 1-up.