POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — Tom Kite shot a 3-under 67 in calm morning conditions Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over fellow early starters Mark O’Meara, Michael Allen and Joe Ozaki in the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship, the Champions Tour’s final major of the season.
After a bogey on No. 7, the 60-year-old Kite — winless since the 2008 Boeing Classic — birdied Nos. 9, 10, 14 and 17 at new-look TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm.
Allen, coming off a second-place finish last week in the PGA Tour’s Viking Classic, had five birdies and three bogeys, one on No. 14 that knocked him out of the lead.
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin opened with a 76.
