Hurst, Miyazato Tied; Wie Is One Back

Pat Hurst let everyone back into the LPGA Championship with a four-putt double bogey. Michelle Wie might be tied for the lead if not for missing a par putt from 18 inches.

Not even Annika Sorenstam was immune from a crazy, windswept Saturday at Bulle Rock, with a two-shot penalty that sent her spiraling down the leaderboard and probably out of contention for a fourth straight title in this major. When the sun finally set on a long day filled with mistakes and blown putts, the LPGA Championship was up for grabs at Havre de Grace, Md.

Hurst missed a six-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole and had to settle for an even-par 72. That left her tied for the lead with Japan’s Ai Miyazato, who lost a 54-hole lead a week ago trying to win for the first time on the LPGA Tour, and now gets another chance.

They were at seven-under-par 209, one shot ahead of a group that includes Wie.

The 16-year-old from Hawaii three-putted for bogey three times, none as shocking as the par-three 17th. Standing over what looked to be a tap-in for par, she caught the left edge of the cup and stood in the fading sunlight with a stunned look on her face. Wie rebounded with a 10-foot birdie on the final hole for a one-under 71, still believing she can be golf’s youngest major champion.

“This golf course still owes me a really good round,” Wie said.

Sorenstam birdied her first hole and seemed ready to make a charge. But when she lifted a chunk of sod from a divot hole next to her ball in the second fairway, Karrie Webb had no choice but to call the two-shot penalty.

“It was a mistake I made,” Sorenstam said after stumbling to a 75, leaving her six shots behind with 21 players between her and the leaders. “It’s never too late, but things have to change.”

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Billy Andrade shot a two-under 69 in windy conditions to take a one-stroke lead over Vijay Singh and Adam Scott in the Barclays Classic at Harrison, N.Y.

Andrade, the 1991 champion who won the last of his four PGA Tour titles in 2000, has an eight-under 205 total on the soggy Westchester Country Club course.

“I’m tickled to death to be in this position, but I know how this golf course plays and that’s going to be a dogfight tomorrow,” Andrade said. “You’re judged on wins and how you play on Sundays, not on 54-hole leads.”

Singh, tied for the second-round lead with David Howell after a bogey-free 64 Friday, shot a 72. Scott, the first-round leader, matched Andrade with a 69.

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The Champions Tour’s Bank of America Championship at Concord, Mass., was washed out by rain and the overflowing Sudbury River.

“We never got a ball in the air all week,” course superintendent Paul Miller said.

Officials are trying to reschedule for an open weekend Sept. 22-24; if they can’t, it will be the tour’s first cancellation since the weekend after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.