Lesser-Known Wiebe, Weibring Overtake Kemper Leaderboard

On a day when the huge Kemper Open crowds at Potomac, Md., flocked to the dream grouping of Greg Norman and Nick Faldo, the leaderboard was overtaken in relative anonymity by a player allergic to grass and trees and another trying to rediscover a passion for the game.

Followed by galleries of a few dozen instead of a few hundred on Friday, Mark Wiebe and D.A. Weibring overcame the TPC at Avenel’s bumpy greens to shoot 4-under-par 67s for 136 totals and a one-stroke lead over Norman, Tom Lehman, Omar Uresti and John Morse.

Faldo had the round of the day, a 6-under 65, to move within two of the lead. Faldo was tied with Nick Price, who had shared first place with Norman after the opening round, as well as four others, including former Pullman resident Kirk Triplett. Triplett shot a 67 Friday.

At East Lansing, Mich., Kelly Robbins shot an 8-under-par 64 to take the lead midway through the $600,000 LPGA Oldsmobile Classic.

Robbins, whose 64 matched her career-best round, moved to 9-under for the tournament and leads the event by two strokes over Leta Lindley and Laura Baugh, who at 42 is playing while seven months pregnant with her seventh child.

Lindley posted a 69 and Baugh shot a 67.

Robin Walton of Clarkston is 1-under at 71-72-143. Tracy Hanson of Rathdrum, Idaho, failed to make the cut at 79-70-149.

At Nashville, Tenn., Walter Morgan shot an 8-under-par 64 in rainy conditions to take a three-stroke lead after the first round of the $1.3 million BellSouth Senior Classic.

Morgan switched to a Rick Hamilton putter Thursday before his round in the pro-am, and liked it so much that he used it Friday for an eight-birdie, bogey-free round.