South Korea's Pak Se-ri shot a six-under 66 Friday to take a one-shot lead over Brittany Lincicome and Wendy Ward at the $1.3 million LPGA Bell Micro Classic. Pak rolled in five birdies in a six-hole stretch on her final nine holes to top the second-round leaderboard at nine under on The Crossings course. Many of the players wore purple ribbons and wristbands with “EB” and a heart honoring Erica Blasberg, a 25-year-old tour player who was found dead in Las Vegas Sunday. The clubhouse flag was also at half-staff. Ward had the low round with a 65, six strokes better than her opening round. Lincicome came out quickly with birdies on six of her opening seven holes, but closed with a bogey on the final hole. Azahara Munoz was in a group of four players three strokes back after shooting a one-over 73. Storms wash out PGA play Thunderstorms Friday forced postponement of the entire second round of the $1.09 million US PGA Texas Open to Saturday morning. More than two inches of rain fell during the downpours and officials finally called off any attempt to play after delays of more than seven hours. More storms were forecast for Sunday. Australian Matt Jones fired a six-under par 66 Thursday to grab the lead after the opening round, one stroke ahead of American Paul Stankowski with US players J.B. Holmes, Matt Weibring, Steve Lowery and Charley Hoffman on 68. India's Arjun Atwal was on 69 along with Americans Joe Durant, Steve Flesch and Brett Wetterich. Zach Johnson of the United States opened with an 80. Jones had his best finish of the season two weeks ago at Quail Hollow with a share of seventh place. Two share lead In Balearic Islands, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano of Spain three-putted the last hole to tie for the lead with Pelle Edberg of Sweden in the third round of the Mallorca Open Saturday. Fernandez-Castano had a 2-under 68 to go into the final round at 4 under overall with Edberg at the 6,915-yard Pula Golf Club. Edberg followed up his second-round 64 with a 71, mixing three birdies with four bogeys. James Kingston of South Africa, who was the overnight leader with Edberg, fell back to sixth after shooting 74. Scott Hend of Australia improved from ninth to third with a 66 to be a shot off the lead. Sweden's Peter Hanson and Spain's Alejandro Canizares were fourth, while England's Chris Wood was sixth alongside Kingston and Dane Mark Haastrup.
