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Golf Roundup: Blackmar, Sluman top Schwab
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Published: October 30, 2009
Charles Schwab Cup: Phil Blackmar and Jeff Sluman shot 6-under 66s in breezy conditions yesterday to share the first-round lead in the season-ending tournament at Sonoma, Calif.
Blackmar, after winning the AT&T Championship last week in San Antonio to gain the last spot in the season finale, had six birdies in a bogey-free round at Sonoma Golf Club. Sluman was even par at the turn, then birdied three of his first four holes on the back nine, eagled the par-5 16th and birdied 17.
Eduardo Romero, the Toshiba Classic winner in March at Newport Beach, was a stroke back at 67, and John Cook and Brad Bryant opened with 68s.
World Match Play: Paul Casey lost twice yesterday and won't advance in the group stage at Casares, Spain.
Casey, the highest ranked player in the tournament at No. 4, lost by a hole to Scott Strange of Australia and 3 and 2 to Anthony Kim, an American Ryder Cup player.
Casey, who just returned after tearing a rib muscle on Aug. 6, lost to the 168th-ranked Strange when he missed a seven-foot birdie chance at the last.
Kim tops Group A with four points after beating Retief Goosen, a two-time U.S. Open champion, 3 and 2 in the tournament's new round-robin group format.
Sergio Garcia of Spain lost to Oliver Wilson of England, but salvaged a point after halving with Robert Allenby of Australia.
Viking Classic: The first round of the waterlogged Viking Classic in Madison, Miss., was postponed until today after steady overnight rain and the chance for more kept golfers indoors. Play never got started yesterday, and officials announced the postponement after an initial two-hour delay stretched to three hours.
Today's forecast calls for a 90-percent chance of thunderstorms.
Senior PGA Pro: Darrell Kestner, Chris Starkjohann and Mickey Yokoi shot 6-under 66s yesterday to share the first-round lead at Port St. Lucie, Fla.
The low 35 finishers will qualify for the 2010 Senior PGA Championship at Colorado Golf Club near Denver.
Kestner, 56, the golf director at Deepdale Golf Club in Manhasset, N.Y., won the 1996 PGA Professional National Championship, two PGA Assistant Championship titles and is a two-time Senior PGA Professional Player of the Year.
Starkjohann, from Encinitas, Calif., also is a two-time Senior PGA Pro Player of the Year.
He had a bogey-free round on the Dye Course.
Gary Trivisonno of Aurora, Ohio; David Arbuckle of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Paul Daniels of Port St. Lucie, Fla., shot 67s. Defending Champion Kirk Hanefeld, a PGA Life Member from Acton, Mass., had a 72 on the Wanamaker Course.
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