In brief: Stacy Lewis, Mi Jung Hur share lead in Alabama

Golf: Top-ranked Stacy Lewis birdied the last three holes and five of the final six Thursday for an 8-under 64 and a share of a one-stroke lead with Mi Jung Hur in the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic in Prattville, Alabama.

Lewis, the 2012 winner in the event that was dropped from the schedule last year after it lost its title sponsor, had a bogey-free round on The Senator course. She has a tour-high three victories this season.

Hur also had a bogey-free round. The South Korean player won her lone LPGA Tour title in 2009.

South Africa’s Paula Reto had a 65, and Cydney Clanton was another stroke back along with Sweden’s Karin Sjodin and Japan’s Ayako Uehara.

• Woods says he might coach himself: The next swing coach for Tiger Woods might be Tiger Woods. Woods said on his website that there was no “hard-and-set” rule on finding a new swing coach. He parted way with Sean Foley last month after two years.

Woods only completed 25 rounds this year because of a back injury that required surgery. He says he needs to get healthy before he figures out where to go with his game.

• Blair leads Web.com championship: Zac Blair matched the course record with a 7-under 63 to take the lead in the Web.com Tour Championship at Ponte Verdra Beach, Florida, the final event in the four-tournament Web.com Tour Finals. Blair, a 24-year-old former BYU player who needs to earn about $40,000 this week to earn a PGA Tour card, had a bogey-free round on TPC Sawgrass’ Dye’s Valley Course.

Blair missed the cuts in the first three events in the series limited to the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list and Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings.

The top 25 on the Web.com money list have earned PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for PGA Tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals. The other players are fighting for another 25 cards based on their earnings in the four-tournament Finals series.

Spokane’s Alex Prugh opened with a 70. He entered the tournament ranked 54th after the first three events of the Finals.

• Tallent wins Senior Amateur: Former George Washington basketball player Patrick Tallent won the U.S. Senior Amateur, beating Bryan Norton 2 and 1 at Big Canyon in Newport Beach, California. The 61-year-old Tallent, from Vienna, Virginia, survived a 15-for-13 playoff Monday to advance to match play in the event for players 55 and older. He was the runner-up in 2010.

• Higgins champion at Senior Women’s Amateur: Joan Higgins won the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur on Thursday, beating Canada’s Judith Kyrinis 1 up at Hollywood Golf Club in Deal, New Jersey. The 58-year-old Higgins, a former University of Wisconsin tennis player who lives in Glendora, California, also won the 2008 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur.

U.S. women defeat Mexico in exhibition

Soccer Hope Solo extended her shutout record to 73, and Amy Rodriguez, Tobin Heath, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe scored to help the U.S. women’s soccer team beat Mexico 4-0 in an exhibition game in chilly conditions in Rochester, New York. It was the Americans’ final match before World Cup qualifying

• UEFA allows 3-minute concussion breaks: UEFA has adopted a new procedure allowing referees to stop matches for up to three minutes to assess head injuries when a concussion is suspected.

UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino says the new procedures will come into immediate effect in all of the European football governing body’s competitions.

Infantino says after a match is stopped, players “will only be allowed to continue playing on specific confirmation by the team doctor to the referee of the player’s fitness to do so.”

Chinese star Li Na retiring at 32

Tennis: Li Na, a two-time Grand Slam champion from China who took tennis in Asia to a new level, has announced her retirement.

Li, 32, won the 2011 French Open, becoming the first player from China to win a Grand Slam singles title, and clinched the Australian Open title in January in her third trip to the final at Melbourne Park.

She only entered seven tournaments after that, and hasn’t played since a third-round defeat at Wimbledon. She withdrew from three tournaments in August, citing a right knee injury.

• Britain to face U.S. in Davis Cup opener: Britain will host the United States in a first-round rematch in next year’s Davis Cup.

Led by Andy Murray, Britain upset the Americans – playing without the injured John Isner – 3-1 last year in San Diego.

The two sides were drawn on Thursday to face each other again in the World Group opening round from March 6-8.

Britain is the home team and has the choice of venue and surface.

Murray was quoted as telling the Daily Mail website that he will play for Britain in the 2015 Davis Cup, regardless of the outcome of Scotland’s referendum on independence. Earlier Thursday, he tweeted support for independence.

France hosts Switzerland in this year’s final, to be played from Nov. 21-23.