New Zealand's Danny Lee, Spain's Sergio Garcia and American Johnson Wagner each fired seven-under-par 63s to share the lead in Thursday's storm-hit opening round of the US PGA Byron Nelson Championship. World No. 2 Jordan Spieth, who missed the cut at the Players Championship last week in his return after a last-day Masters meltdown cost him a title, shot 64 at the TPC Four Seasons, finding form in his home state on the Irving, Texas, layout. A morning storm delay led to the first round being halted by darkness with 30 players from the field of 156 being forced to finish their opening round on Friday. Garcia finished early while Lee was among the late finishers and Wagner made his final putt in twilight. All three started on the back nine and went bogey-free. It was a great time for Garcia to find his form with the US Open only a month away. Garcia sank a 17-foot birdie putt at the 15th hole to make the turn at one-under. At the par-3 second, he landed a tee shot three feet from the cup and made the birdie putt. After adding a five-foot birdie putt on the fouth hole, Garcia ran off a 26-foot birdie putt at the sixth, eagled the par-5 seventh from 58 feet and followed with a 10-foot birdie putt at the eighth hole. South Korean-born Kiwi Lee, who won his first PGA event at last year's Greenbrier Classic, began his round with three birdies, the last of them from 21 feet. He sank a 34-foot birdie putt at the 15th and a 13-footer at the fourth, birdied the par-5 seventh and rolled in a 19-foot birdie putt at the eighth to grab a share of the lead. Wagner opened with a 24-foot birdie at the 10th, drained a 30-footer for birdie at 14 and birdied the par-5 16th and par-3 17th. He followed with birdies at the second and third holes, the latter on a 38-foot chip, and sank another stunner birdie putt from 45 feet at the sixth to share the lead. Spieth shared fourth along with fellow American Dustin Johnson and Sweden's Freddie Jacobson. Also at four-under with four holes to finish was American Tom Hoge. Miyazato grabs LPGA lead Japan's Mika Miyazato fired a six-under-par 65 Thursday to seize a one-stroke lead after the opening round of the LPGA Kingsmill Championship at Williamsburg, Virginia. Miyazato made four birdies in a row and seven in all against a lone bogey to pass Australia's Minjee Lee, the defending champion, and American Brittany Lincicome and grab the lead. The 26-year-old from Okinawa won her only career LPGA title at the 2012 Safeway Classic, downing Lincicome and South Korean Park In-Bee. Miyazato, a two-time Japan Women's Open champion, began on the back nine and birdied the par-3 13th hole, then closed with four birdies in a row starting at the par-5 15th to reach the turn at five-under 30. After a bogey at the par-5 third, Miyazato responded with birdies at the par-4 sixth and eighth to jump atop the leaderboard. Lee birdied four of the first seven holes, added another at 15 and reached six-under with a birdie at the par-3 17th but a closing bogey dropped her into a share of second. Lincicome, another back-nine starter, birdied 14, 15 and 17 then added back-to-back birdies at the third and fourth hole and followed her lone bogey at the sixth with a birdie at the par-5 seventh. World No. 1 Lydia Ko of New Zealand, playing alongside second-ranked Park In-Bee of South Korea and third-rated American Lexi Thompson, opened with a 73, with three birdies and three bogeys plus a double bogey. Park opened with her only birdie but fired four bogeys on her way to a 74 while Thompson shot 72 in a roller-coaster round that featured four birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey. — Agencies
