Sunday, June 6, 2004
Webb grabs 2-shot LPGA lead
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The Associated Press
AURORA, Ill. - Karrie Webb put herself in position for her first victory of the year, birdieing four of the final five holes for an 8-under-par 64 and a two-stroke lead in the LPGA's Kellogg-Keebler Classic.
The Australian rolled in a 40-foot birdie putt on No. 14 and added birdies on the final two holes for an 11-under 133 total. Jill McGill and Seol-An Jeon were tied for second.
Webb, a six-time major winner and two-time LPGA player of the year, has not lived up to her own high standards the last couple of years. She won just once on tour last year and finished out of the top 10 for the first time since joining the LPGA in 1996. Five players were within four shots of the lead.
CHAMPIONS TOUR: Andy Bean shot a 7-under-par 65 and was tied for the lead with Bob Gilder after three rounds at the Farmers Charity Classic at Ada, Mich. Bean and Gilder, who shot a 4-under 68, are tied at 10-under 134.
First-round leader Sammy Rachels (73), Jim Thorpe (70), Tom Purtzer (69), Stewart Ginn (71) and Vicente Fernandez (71) are tied for third. Hale Irwin, coming off his 40th Champions Tour victory at the Senior PGA Championship last week, is one of six players tied for eighth place, four shots off the lead.
EUROPEAN TOUR: Paul Casey shot a 7-under-par 65 to take a three-shot lead after three rounds of the Wales Open in Newport.
Casey, a three-time winner on the European Tour, moved to 18 under, ahead of countryman Simon Khan, who followed a course-record 61 Friday with a 2-under 70.
BRITISH AMATEUR: Scotland's Stuart Wilson became the British Amateur champion, defeating England's Lee Corfield 4 and 3 at St. Andrews. Wilson, part of the Britain-Ireland team that beat the United States in the Walker Cup last September, earned a spot at next month's British Open at Royal Troon. He also gets a place at next year's Masters at Augusta.
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