MADISON, Mississippi - Thunderstorms continued to play havoc on the PGA Tour Sanderson Farms Championship Friday, where blast-from-the-past 43-year-old Paul Stankowski sits part of a six-way tie on top of the leaderboard in the incomplete second round. Just five days from Jordan Spieth becoming the first teenager to win since 1931, Stankowski struck a blow for the older generations at Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Mississippi with a second round four-under 68 moving him to 10-under 134. Forced to complete delayed first round play (66) before heading straight back out for round two, he shares the lead with fellow Americans Vaughn Taylor (67-67), Kyle Reifers (65-69), Troy Matteson (67-67) and overnight leader Daniel Summerhays (63, one-under through eight holes) plus Argentine Fabian Gomez, who sizzled with a second round 64, a career low, after a 70 in round one. Americans Chris Riley (67-68) and Jim Herman (66-69) plus Canadian Brad Fritsch (66-69) and Australian Steven Bowditch (67-68) sit just a shot off the pace at nine-under par, part of a stacked leaderboard featuring 35 players within four shots of the lead. After storm delays on Thursday, another delay Friday ensured 59 players were still to complete their second rounds when darkness stopped play. Three share lead Spain's Beatriz Recari fired a six-under par 65 Friday to match Paula Creamer and Alison Walshe for the lead at the LPGA Marathon Classic in Sylvania, with Park In-Bee lurking two shots back. Recari fired six birdies, two bogeys and an eagle to stand alongside the US duo at eight-under 134 after 36 holes in the $1.3 million tournament, one stroke ahead of American Jacqui Concolino. South Korea's Park fired a 69 to share fifth on 136. Alongside world No. 1 Park were Japan's Chie Arimura and New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko, the 16-year-old world amateur number one. Creamer has won nine LPGA titles, but none since taking her only major crown at the 2010 US Women's Open. Recari won her only tour titles at the 2010 LPGA Challenge and this year's Kia Classic. Walshe's best LPGA showing was a share of eighth at last year's Kraft Nabisco Championship. Recari closed a run of three birdies in four holes at the par-3 sixth, then followed a bogey-bogey start to the back nine with back-to-back birdies and charged to the top with an eagle at the par-4 15th and a birdie at the 16th. Creamer, who fired a 68, opened with back-to-back birdies, added another at the par-5 seventh and answered her lone bogey at 11 with a birdie at the 15th. “I feel great. I feel confident. Hitting the ball well,” Creamer said. Walshe opened and closed the front nine with bogeys, sandwiched around birdies at the fourth and fifth holes, and birdied the 12th and par-5 18th to fire a 69. Park opened with a bogey and twice followed birdies with bogeys on the next hole before closing the round with back-to-back birdies. “I didn't have a really good start but I really played well the rest of the day,” Park said. Park is putting her focus on trying to win her seventh title of the season with a nod to preparing for the next major next month at St. Andrews. “I don't really think about St. Andrews when I'm playing this tournament,” she said. “I'm just trying to tune my game up a little bit so I'm ready for going to the British. I'm just trying to get myself ready.” — Agencies
