GOLF ROUNDUP Thursday’s other events

PGA Tour

MILWAUKEE — Richard S. Johnson aced the 14th hole on his way to shooting a 63 that gave him a one stroke lead over the Pappas brothers after the first round of the U.S. Bank Championship. Deane and Brenden Pappas could have become the first brothers to share the lead at a PGA event, but Johnson birdied from about 10 feet on the 18th hole to edge ahead. Robert Garrigus, Dean Wilson and Patrick Sheehan were another shot behind. Defending champion Joe Ogilvie and Jesper Parnevik were in a group of ten tied at 66. Johnson’s hole-in-one with a 7-iron was the 18th this year on the PGA tour but the first on the Brown Deer Park Golf Course since Tiger Woods did it in 1996.

LPGA Tour

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Christina Kim shot a 9-under 63 to take a one-stroke lead at the State Farm Classic, a tournament she just missed winning last year. Last year Kim birdied 18 to momentarily tie Sherri Steinhauer at 16 under, but the veteran Steinhauer matched Kim on the last hole to win. The field was stacked with low scores, including a 67 from Michelle Wie that was her best of the year for the part-time golfer and full-time Stanford student. Wie, playing on a sponsor’s exemption, and most of the lowest-scoring golfers teed off early in the morning, before temperatures neared 90 degrees. South Korean Sun Young Yoo, one of the few golfers to tee off at midday and keep her score down, finished a stroke behind Kim at 64 after shooting an 8-under 28 over the first nine holes.

Associated Press