Overton takes the lead of Nelson without Bogey 64

Jeff Overton shot a bogey free 6-less of 64 Thursday to take the lead in the first round Championship Byron Nelson, a stroke better than Ryan Palmer.

A year after linking the second four seasons TPC, Overton started his back nine with four birdies in a stretch of seven holes. He had his best career score towers in 15 at the Nelson, even after his attempt to 22 feet birdie on the hole from closing to lips.

"It is nice having confidence because of last year," Overton said. "" "". I knew that I play well. I wanted to just keep things rolling. ?

After a putt of economy by 10 feet at the second hole by-3 220 yards, Overton had consecutive birdies.

"That broke a lot and I thought that I have missed him, and he went in reality", said Overton. "And next thing I was able to hit a lot of great shots and radiation at the beginning." I have never had a chance to make bogey there. "

Palmer made the cut only once in his previous seven appearances of Nelson. This week, he is to leave his caddie call all his shots.

Sergio Garcia, who withdrew a British Open qualifier this week and did not even play a practice round due to a nail on his left hand, infected was in a group of nine players at 66.

Infection on the fingers of Garcia ring makes it difficult to enter a club. His finger was there a few days that he thought that he could even not able to play.

Why this for a cure for Garcia? Antibiotic cream, draining infection, see the new film "Pirates of Caribbean" and an opening Eagle.

Dustin Johnson watches his putt on the ninth hole during the first round of the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas, golf tournament on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Strasen) Close

"" It's funny how golf is sometimes. "."Yeah, rarely practice at all and then it was y, Garcia said on a corner of sand of 116 yards on his first hole, the 10th 418-yard of categories. "I hit it and I saw the guys on the Green saying"In"and I thought,"Perfect!"" I could not have started in a better manner. ?

Overton was part of the Ryder Cup team last year when he was three finalist finishes, among them part of three tracks for the second equal in Nelson last year behind Jason Day.

Although he made the cut in his 13 previous tournaments this season, Overton has finished better than 20th only once. That a sixth place finish at the Honda Classic in March, and it was his missed cut and finished no better than 26 since then.

"I hope that this is the beginning of a series of good for me," he said. "I have struck it really well the last three or four weeks, just did not my rolls throughout the year."

The Greens of TPC were bombarded by hail described as half the size of baseballs during storms Tuesday night. Crews worked on the Greens before and after a pro - am Wednesday.

The opening round Thursday, players were allowed to treat hail as a brand of ball that they could repair. They also took advantage of lift, clean and place being in effect because of potential damage to other areas of the course.

Dustin Johnson, who played in the group with Garcia, was in the Group at 66 with Jeff Quinney, Scott Piercy, Will Strickler, Chris Riley, Josh Teater, Joe Ogilvie and Keegan Bradley.

Double bogey of Johnson on his second hole, the 329-yard 11th, came after he hooked his drive in water going for the green and then hit his fourth shot on the green.

He was bogey-free the rest of the round, starting with a birdie from 21 feet at the No. 12 and 22 to no. 14 footer. Its six birdie rolled on average more than 19 feet - shortest was 8 with a long of 35 feet.

Johnson, who finished second and third place finishes this season, has been under the by, for the eighth time in his last nine rounds of the Nelson.

"The Greens were large, so you know, I have come to give the grounds crew accessories," said Johnson. "They did a really good job of loan the Greens, especially after the hail storm.". You definitely have to give them a helping hand. ?

Garcia said he fixed several plugs on each hole, but said that the Greens are OK.

DIVOTS: K.J. Choi, who won the Players Championship two weeks before jumping Colonial last week, shot a 71 with four bogies while playing with Garcia and Johnson. ... Defending champion day shot a 72 that included a double bogey and four bogies.

Glover takes Wells Fargo end drought without a victory to put

CHARLOTTE, N.C - Figures Lucas Glover, he played more than 100 tours with Jonathan Byrd, golf junior when they were adolescents to their years together at Clemson and almost a decade on the PGA Tour.

The stakes have never were also high that they were Sunday in the Championship of Wells Fargo.

Glover has never been better.

Clinging to a One-Shot, Glover lead closed with three gutsy pars of the brutal finishing section, at Quail Hollow slamming his fist when he made the last time of 7 feet for a 3-under 69 and what appeared to be a sure win. Then came a Byrd, with two major pars on his own initiative, followed by a shooting in 15 feet he did birdie the 18th for a 72 to force a playoff.

Glover wound up a winner with equal on the first extra hole, ending a drought of 41 tournaments that stretched nearly to two years to his US Open win to Bethpage Black in 2009.

It is the eighth game this year on the PGA Tour and the third in a row.

"I am pleased," said Glover. "Any any time you win, you are happy." This means that beat you all the world. You did that you set for Thursday morning when the range of bell. Against this field and on this golf course and a tournament of this magnitude, I am very pleased. ?

And against one of his best friends?

Who could help. Glover, in his first game of PGA Tour, felt a sense of calm play against Byrd, who had won his last two tournaments in extra holes. And it showed.

In the regulations, Glover hooked his tee shot until this left he settled by a spectator. He was given a drop, then watched the ball roll down from the Bank towards the stream as it is ready to strike. Because never, he founded his club - which has been his plan, given the lie on one side of a steep hill - he played the next time without penalty.

"Better off, worse lie," he said.

He managed a 6-iron just over the Green, hit more difficult chip he had all day to 7 feet and escapes with another. In the playoffs, however, Glover struck his tee shot in the middle and two row of 25 feet.

Byrd, who passed a fairway bunker to danger left Green - just below the stream - struck a difficult chip 25 through the hole and wound up with a bogey.

Scott Halleran/Getty ImagesLucas Glover got his first victory since the US Open 2009 after having beaten Jonathan Byrd on the first hole of the playoff at the Wells Fargo Championship.

"I am just disappointed because you're here to win", said Byrd. "You love to do competition, especially when you get a series. You birdie the last, you feel like, "Hey, this is just going to work.".

"If I couldn't win, I couldn't choose someone else that I do not want to win other than Lucas, so I am very pleased for him."

Glover, who finished 15 - under 273, becomes the first player in the history of nine years of the tournament to display all of the four towers in the 1960s. He would have seen this entry.

He was going through a divorce for several months-"I'll probably leave that there, if it is all right," he said, refused to comment on his personal life - and had only one top 10 last year. He missed the cut in his last three events and had little confidence when it is presented in the quail hollow.

But he figured out Tuesday on the beach that the club was not square, he found better Wednesday in the pro-am and offshore, he went. This was not the US Open, although the way it has been tested in the last hour of a wild day, it was equally difficult.

Rory Sabbatini, who closed with a 65 and 13-under 131 weekend, only wound up third and moves in the top 50 of the world. There now remain for two weeks more to be exempted from the US Open.

Bill Haas had a 70 to finish alone in fourth. Pat Perez, who set a record for the tournament with 26 birdies, had a chance from the outside to win until the closing with three straight bogies to tie for sixth.

1 * Glover-(15)
2 Byrd-(15)
3 Sabbatini (-14)
4 Haas (-13)
5. Na-(12)
* a won the first hole of the play-off

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"It just proves that I cannot close, so I am fairly confident on this" Perez said, blunt as ever. "You will never win if you play as I did today." It's just terrible. "Embarrassing".

Glover was four strokes behind when he made his move by chipping for birdie on the eighth and categories of an Eagle from 30 feet on the 10th that gave the outright lead it never lost the rest of the road.

Next comes a wild ride - bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie - which brought him to the treacherous finishing. He rescued from well behind the 16th green. It has two row of slightly less than 100 17 feet, hand 6 footer, escaped no. 18 with the greatest of all.

"With a One-Shot lead, these three holes, you do not have to run," Glover said. "" "". A fact I am running the full swing? Who wants to say? But I signed my short game, and I had my wraps. ?

Byrd was on the tee when he heard the roar of peer Glover, knowing that he needed birdie.

Glover predicted all but that he would.

They had joked before the third round that they would be paired Sunday afternoon. They probably did not have this end in mind.

"I said, ' why do we plan on seeing the other tomorrow about 2 - and it is 6," says Glover. "" "". I think that this is perhaps why I knew that he was going to birdie on 18. ?

Sabbatini was among five players at the top of the rankings in a wacky final round, and the action is relentless.

It all started with the South African bold, who had only spoken this week about his argument filled with profanity with Sean O'Hair week last in New Orleans which could lead to a suspension. Sabbatini posted 14-under 274 and it seemed that it might be sufficient for a game as the Glover, Byrd, Haas and kept Perez find disorder and the last five holes.

Byrd seemed to be in control until the closure of nine front with back-to-back bogies, and then do another 14, while his shooting raw right also found the water. But he followed with a birdie on the 15th, then handguns of the trees on 16 and hit his shot of 167 yards to 2 feet for an improbable by and closed with a dramatic birdie.

"I am just disappointed the way I played the rest of the 15 holes earlier in the day," said Byrd.

 

NBA playoffs in 2011: Erik Spoelstra of the Miami Heat without relying on Mike Miller, Udonis Haslem

MIAMI - Despite the problems of injuries throughout the regular season, the Miami Heat had hoped that their key bench players would be sufficiently healthy for playoff crucial.

Is not that it will be the case when they begin their series with the Boston Celtics Sunday afternoon.

Practice later Friday, heat coach Erik Spoelstra has been suggested that it was not count on Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem for game 1 and probably beyond.

Miller has a left thumb injury which he limited seven total minutes in the series of the first round with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Haslem has an injury to the slow-healing foot that he hoped he would return from a month ago, but also is not ready.

Miller has a new brace on his left thumb still more complex than the accolade for his right thumb, which needed surgery earlier this season. Spoelstra, said that the brace helps but he is always in fashion "assessment" on the availability of Miller. He was active but is not in the last three games.

"Coach includes I'll be ready if he calls my number of" Miller said. "If this is not the case, I'll be pom - pom girl best that i can be.".

Haslem, whose recovery was slowed by persistent pain who have little time to practice, has recently adapted to its workload and appeared near is enabled. But Spoelstra tried to throw water on this possibility.

"While we all see the light at the end of the tunnel, the series will not be our chronology [on Haslem]," Spoelstra said. "It may not happen next week or the next two weeks."

Haslem has admitted that recent strong piece of heat - they have won 19 of their past 23 games - can be made coaches are reluctant to change the rotation of the team to make room for him.

"All that I would love to be there, I understand that this is a very important series for us," Haslem said. "We have a fairly good chemistry right now and I do not want that disrupt.". I don't want to force anything right now. That being said, is not as easy as a decision as people think it would be and I understand. ?