Farmington's Boyd Summerhays shot a 5-under-par 67 on Friday for a four-stroke victory in the boys 15-17 division of the 28th Junior World Golf Championships.
The 16-year-old Utahn has now claimed three junior world championships with this win in the largest international tourney for juniors. Last year, he finished fourth, as a 15-year-old, in the 15-17 division.Summerhays, who had five birdies on the front nine on Torrey Pines' South Course, had an 11-under 279 total. Japan's Hidemasa Hoshino finished second.
Coming into the prestigious four-day tournament, Summerhays was ranked fifth in the United States for boys 19-and-under.
Two other Utahns - Bountiful's Scott Hailes and Derek Fox of Henefer - finished in the top twenty at 14th and 16th respectively.
Summerhays, Hailes, Fox, Tad Hunt and J.D. Overton will next vie for the title at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championships starting Tuesday in Fargo, N.D.
At Madison, Miss., Paul Stankowski had trouble off the tee but had his putter working Friday to take a share of the second-round lead at the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic.
Stankowski had three straight birdies early, including a 30-foot uphill putt at the par-4, 465-yard 4th at the Annandale Golf Club. He had a bogey-free 6-under-par 66 and was at 10-under 134 for the tournament in a tie with Dicky Pride.
Pride followed an opening-round 66 with a 68. He could have taken sole possession of the lead, but his birdie attempt off the fringe at 18 stopped two inches short.
Dicky Thompson was at 11 under through 16 holes Friday, but he finished with consecutive bogeys - at the par-3, 209-yard 8th and at the par-4, 450-yard 9th - to fall into a group of three players at 135.
At New Rochelle, N.Y., Michelle McGann, winless before 1995 but currently the LPGA's hottest player, shot a 3-under-par 68 Friday to take a four-stroke lead through two rounds of the Big Apple Classic.
While most of her closest competitors through one round faltered on the tough Wykagl Country Club course, McGann matched her lowest 36-hole total this year at 134. She curled in a 20-foot putt on her final hole to move four strokes ahead of Caroline Pierce of England.
Tied at 3-under 139 were Joan Pitcock, Emilee Klein and Mary Beth Zimmerman. Pitcock and Klein had second-round 69s, while Zimmerman had a 70.
At Ada, Mich., George Archer, who has won 29 PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour events, and Chuck Montalbano, who hasn't won on either tour, shot 6-under-par 66s Friday to share the first-round lead in the First of America Classic.
Harry Toscano and Wally Armstrong were one stroke behind in the 54-hole event at Egypt Valley Country Club.
Two strokes back were Jerry McGee, Larry Laoretti, Jimmy Powell, Tommy Aaron, Graham Marsh and defending champion Tony Jacklin. Jim Colbert, Jim Albus, Simon Hobday, Walt Morgan, Bob Wynn and Don January opened with 69s.
At Stow, Mass., Chris Wollmann of Parma, Ohio, and Bill Camping of Phoenix each won two matches Friday to advance to the 36-hole final of the 70th U.S. Amateur Public Links Golf Championship.
Wollmann, a junior at Ohio State, beat Darron Stiles of Plant City, Fla., 4 and 3 in the quarterfinals and BYU golfer Todd Pence of Chency, Wash., 3 and 2 in the semifinals on the Stow Acres Country Club course.