ROUNDUP : O'MEARA MOVES HIS MAGIC SOUTH.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Mark O'Meara Mark Francis O'Meara (born January 13, 1957) is a professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. In 2007 he entered his first season on the Champions Tour. is still in his ``Prince of Pebble'' mode even though the PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR". has shifted down the West Coast. O'Meara followed up five straight rounds of 67 with a 6-under-par 66 on Friday to share the lead with Steve Lowery Stephen Brent Lowery (born October 12 1960) is an American professional golfer. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has had PGA Tour victories in 1994 and 2000. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. at 11-under 133 after 36 holes of the Buick Invitational The Buick Invitational, is a PGA Tour professional golf tournament played in the San Diego, California area in the early part of the Tour season, known as the "West Coast Swing. at Torrey Pines Torrey Pines can refer to:
First-round leader Bob Tway, the 1986 winner of this tournament, followed his opening 64 with a 72 to fall three behind O'Meara and Lowery low·er·y also lour·y adj. Overcast; threatening. . O'Meara, who won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for the fifth time Sunday with a tournament-record 20-under 268, drove poorly, but chipped and putted extremely well on Friday. O'Meara got his turn on the 6,592-yard North Course, while Lowery had two eagles in shooting a 66 on the longer South Course. The final two rounds will be played on the 7,000-yard South Course. One shot back were Michael Bradley, who had the day's best round with a 9-under 63 on the North Course, and Frank Lickliter, the last alternate to get into the tournament. Bradley was worried about missing the cut, but he capped his bogey-free round with a 20-foot eagle putt on the 485-yard, par-5 No. 18. Lickliter shot a 68 on the South Course. While he needed only 26 putts, O'Meara continuously drove into the left rough. He hit only six fairways, but he said he got some breaks in the high rough. When someone handed him a soft drink during his interview session, O'Meara said: ``You're going to expect a tip, right? Don't hit your driver like I've been hitting it.'' Robbins stays ahead:Kelly Robbins didn't let the wind bother her as she fired a 3-under-par 69 to retain a one-stroke lead midway through the $500,000 Palm Beach National Pro-Am tournament at West Palm Beach, Fla. At 9-under 135, Robbins led Cathy Johnston-Forbes, who shot her second straight 68 for 136. Tied at 137 were Jane Geddes, who equaled her career low with an 8-under 64, Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster. Pepper and Inkster shot 68 and 69, respectively. Geiberger back to basics:The nicest thing to say about Al Geiberger's golf game is that it is dull. During the opening round of the Senior PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. Tour's LG Championship at Naples, Fla., defending champion Geiberger was at his dullest. ``The way golf is, when you are playing your best, you are kind of boring - down the middle, hit to the middle of the green, just being monotonous,'' Geiberger said after shooting a 6-under-par 66 for a one-stroke lead. |
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